{"title":"Help Us Support Healing (HUSH): A Preliminary Assessment of Staff’s Estimates of Acoustic Noise in their Level 4 NICU","authors":"A. Dela Cruz, R. Cauan","doi":"10.14434/do.v17i1.37041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/do.v17i1.37041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":268379,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Observer","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140471315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Smith, W. Marx, KS Anand, R. Haunschild, J. Sizun, J-M Roue
{"title":"Historical roots of developmental care in newborn infants : A bibliometric analysis using reference publication year spectroscopy","authors":"M. Smith, W. Marx, KS Anand, R. Haunschild, J. Sizun, J-M Roue","doi":"10.14434/do.v17i1.37077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/do.v17i1.37077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":268379,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Observer","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140477405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educating, training, recruiting and retaining the best: Is NIDCAP ready for Generation Z?","authors":"Roman Chubba, J. Tyebkhan","doi":"10.14434/do.v16i2.35786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/do.v16i2.35786","url":null,"abstract":"2023 • Developmental Observer As happens with many things we came across an article by Eckleberry-Hunt et al1 by chance, while searching the cyber-library for another topic. This article caught our attention because it reminded us of a recent NIDCAP observation during a training day. The observation was of a very preterm baby, who was six weeks old at the time. Her mother, Amina, was heavily involved in the care of baby Farah (names changed for confidentiality): over the 100+ days of Farah’s NICU stay, Amina only missed one morning ward round. She gradually took on the active parenting role so that she was doing much of her baby’s care well before discharge. The family was planning to move to another country and Amina proactively asked that a follow-up for Farah be arranged via the Neonatal Follow-Up program at their future city of residence. Amina agreed to the NIDCAP training observation and graciously gave her permission for the observation to be videoed; clips of the video can be viewed in the Snapshots section of the NASCENT NIDCAP APIB Supplement created by the Edmonton NIDCAP Training centre canada website (www. nidcapedmonton.com). The observation of Farah was done by a NIDCAP trainee and a NIDCAP Trainer (JMT), together with a video photographer (RC). A five-page NIDCAP report written in the structured format recommended for NIDCAP training was given to the mother. Some days later while talking to Amina, we discovered that although she had seemed very interested in her baby’s behavioural communication, and in the recommendations that arose from our observation, she had not had time to look at the written report. This made us question why this mother who was so involved in her baby’s care and seemed so interested in the NIDCAP observation, did not read her baby’s NIDCAP report. It also made us wonder about the value of the detailed narrative report if parents – especially parents who are with their baby in the NICU for much of the stay – will not read it. The article that then popped up about Generation Z,1 resonated with our experience and turned the NIDCAP Training Day into a novel educational opportunity to learn about this new generation of learners, ‘Generation Z’.","PeriodicalId":268379,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Observer","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130660835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A small newborn, a whole person","authors":"Frierer Pfieffer, Elena Pfieffer","doi":"10.14434/do.v16i2.36197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/do.v16i2.36197","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":268379,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Observer","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123930164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moral Agents on the NICU Stage","authors":"Jeffery R Alberts, David H. Smith","doi":"10.14434/do.v16i2.36239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/do.v16i2.36239","url":null,"abstract":"T he target article (Barr, 2022) brings the reader to a theatre in which the NICU is on stage. There’s a cast of characters, including neonatologists, surgeons, cardiologists, nurses, therapists, and parents. Despite their shared purpose -to provide care for the babies -collisions occur on this stage, within and between the different specialties and interests represented by each group. Continuing with our theatre metaphor, Peter Barr’s research aims the spotlight on the NICU nurses. They are the essential protagonists, whose central roles are played while providing continuous, 24/7 care to the babies and serving as the interface with parents. The nurses’ role is crucially important and can be exceedingly difficult to play. Indeed, we learn that NICU nurses are the players most vulnerable to moral distress and burnout. Yes, this is a morality play! If there were a script or a Playbill, morals and ethics would pervade the lines. Everyone in the cast is a moral being. Each brings a personal moral code to the shared stage. We would note that the stage is part of a larger theatre in which actors, numerous creative specialists, stagehands and administrators all perform according to standards traceable to ethical codes and moral foundations. With so many players and priorities, it is inevitable that some situations evoke different and conflicting -but ethically based responses. Hence, moral dilemmas arise. When such dilemmas go unresolved, accumulate, and reoccur, moral distress can emerge. Like other forms of stress, it can become toxic. (Barr’s definition focuses on institutional barriers to human action, but we recognize both institutional barriers and differences between individuals, are all morally driven.) In addition to moral distress, burnout occurs. There are instruments to measure burnout. Barr used one with which he distinguished among three dimensions of burnout: Demoralization, Exhaustion, and Loss of Motive. Barr has been sleuthing around emotional, personal, and moral dimensions of the NICU.1, 2, 3 His studies in Australia and by others in Italy and the U.S. have documented moral distress and burnout in NICU nurses. Such effects are more prevalent and damaging to nurses than to other NICU professionals. Overall, we see the deep questions unfold: how does the provision of life-saving and loving care become harmful to a professional provider’s physical and mental health? Here, the plot thickens, becoming both drama and a detective story. Methodologically, Barr’s (2022) work is “state-of-the-art”. He collected survey data from a cohort of nurses in six, Level 3 and Level 4 NICUs in New South Wales, Australia. There were 142 respondents, representing 24% of those eligible to participate in a standardized and validated written survey called the pediatric Moral Distress Scale (MDS-R), along with another scaling instrument aptly named the Burnout Measure (BM). In all, there were some 38 survey items, each answered with 5 – 7 “levels” or weightin","PeriodicalId":268379,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Observer","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121566435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parents’ Involvement Template: A Tool to Standardize Caregivers’ Approach to Parents In NICU","authors":"A. C. Cosimo, N. Bertoncelli","doi":"10.14434/do.v16i1.35771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/do.v16i1.35771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":268379,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Observer","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123054325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psycho-Neonatology: Working with parents, preterm infants, and staff. The outcome of former preterm infants 20 years later","authors":"K. Brisch, Carmen Walter","doi":"10.14434/do.v16i1.35783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/do.v16i1.35783","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":268379,"journal":{"name":"Developmental Observer","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129152129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}