Posts tagged pediatric care
Predicting the unseen Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) outcome – PICU related parental Post Traumatic Stress

Early in my career, my first concern in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit had always been the survival of my patient. Until this question from a mother whose child I had been following forever changed my perception and my career. “Happy we are going home but how am I supposed to care for him? I’m a mess!”

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Advancing Pediatric Care: The virtualKIDS Experience in Nursing-Led Audio-Visual Clinical Services

The Sydney Children’s Hospital Network is located in New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia. It is comprised of two children’s hospitals that forms one of the largest children’s hospital networks in the country. Our network recognised the need to develop virtual care as an integral part of providing specialist paediatric care to the children and adolescents within our state.  As a result, the virtualKIDS service was proposed in 2020 and launched in June 2021. COVID-19 further accelerated the establishment of this service.

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