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Patient Care Initiatives
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In the past two years, the NICU staff and physicians have implemented
several initiatives which have hard-wired a new approach to patient
care. They include:
- Developed a collaborative Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program
- Implemented formal, multi-disciplinary daily patient rounds
- Created multiple task forces to
- research nursing best practices
- revise existing policies or create new ones to educate the NICU staff
- Standardized the approach to patient care among all NICU health care professionals
- Strictly controlled the use of blood transfusion
- Changed the entire approach to ventilator care, resulting in decreased days on mechanical ventilators
- Decreased length of time with central umbilical arterial and venous catheters in place
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