Who's got what? A benchmarking exercise for tertiary neonatal units

Abstract

The majority of NNU have inadequate space and environmental control. The lack of space particularly impacts on infection control aspects, parental privacy and participation and staff satisfaction. Level-2 areas, where parent participation in the care of infants is often greater, should receive as much attention as higher technology level-3 areas. Furthermore, work should be undertaken to develop appropriate local recommendations for NNU design which are acknowledged by local government agencies and professional bodies and take into account the changes in neonatal care practices, integration of family in the care of infants and the needs of the staff.

Room for family-centered care – a qualitative evaluation of a neonatal intensive care unit remodeling project

“…In this care approach, an infant's signals are interpreted as developmental competencies to which responsive actions are taken concerning the environment, safeguarding the infant from external disturbances such as unnecessary light and sound (Als, 1992). New physical layout forms are adopted gradually as they are seen to support FCC and the environment surrounding the infant, inviting and enhancing the parents' natural role (Bowie et al, 2003;Caines, 2002;Kuschel and Roy, 2005).…”

The management of turn transition in signed interaction through the lens of overlaps

“…Some scholars clearly contest the validity of Sacks et al's “one-at-a-time model” for sign language interactions. On the basis of informal conversations between native signers, Coates and Sutton-Spence (2001) for example observe frequent overlapping and conclude that deaf (female) signers do not orient to the interactional organization of “one speaker at a time” but to a “collaborative floor” as described in Edelsky (1981) for spoken language interaction among women. As previously Coates and Sutton-Spence (2001), also Lackner (2009) observes numerous overlaps in her data of dyadic semi-experimental conversations in Austrian Sign Language.…”

The establishment of the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network

“…The ANZNN counts inclusivity among its finest achievements. As a united, bi-national body, it creates population data [10][11][12] from surveying NICUs, 13 and study aspects of existing data. 14,15 Several studies have utilised existing audit data, 16,17 especially our NHMRC-funded study of preterm baby outcomes such as death, 18 retinopathy 19 and chronic lung disease.…”