NICU nurses' lived experience: Caring for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome

Advances in Neonatal Care

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 281-285

  Maguire, Denise ^a   Webb, Mary ^a   Passmore, Denise ^a   Cline, Genieveve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethical distress; Methadone treatment; Moral distress; Neonatal abstinence syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADDICTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN NURSING; NURSE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; OPIATE SUBSTITUTION TREATMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NEONATAL ABSTINENCE SYNDROME; NEONATAL NURSING; NURSES; NURSING ASSESSMENT; OPIATE SUBSTITUTION TREATMENT; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84868611263     PISSN: 15360903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANC.0b013e3182677bc1     Document Type: Article

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