Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Improvement Of Service Delivery Brought About By NICU Certification Review

Improvement Of Service Delivery Brought About By NICU Certification Review

By Harriet Porter


Neonatal Intensive Care Unit commonly abbreviated as NICU certification has had to be reviewed due to advancement in technology, extensive research and health services and practices standardization nationally. The NICU certification review is particularly for new NICU practitioners waiting to be certified. Past procedures are still the norm in over 5000 neonatal clinics in the United States of America.

Based on the current intensive care units specifications, a standard NICU is capable of hosting a minimum of ten newborns at any one time. Under the care of six certified neonatal intensive nurses and two pediatricians, such units are averagely prepared according to current standards. However, as the population grows at a constant rate- despite the sharp decrease in birth rates as of December 2013, there is a need to address the operations at intensive care units in preparation for any type of emergency scenario.

The reviews that have been done so far by government agencies and private medical agencies have been very useful in assessing strengths and of neonatal ICUs. These reviews are to regular citizens and medical experts to give their opinions on ways of improving newborn babies' services at the intensive care unit after they have been scrutinized, reviewed and published. Anyone who wishes to join the world of nursing is taught well on ways of operating neonatal units.

Another key concern that NICU reviews address is the cost associated with establishing and maintaining such units. To an ordinary citizen neonatal clinics might appear to be cheap to establish and operate but in real sense such facilities are equal to small-but very crucial- hospitals on their own. As a result, such reviews provide instrumental reports on the overheads associated with establishing fully-fledged baby hospitals capable of handling all forms of cases ranging from physical to psychological complications in newborns.

Another important thing addressed in the reviews is the machines for specialized use in neonatal units. Since they operate independently, there is need for equipment that can be able to take care of any complication or sickness in the babies. The reports therefore invaluably give a projection of the ways in which the equipment can be improved to enhance a higher quality of the services granted in such facilities.

Lack of good understanding and information on successful newborn delivery procedures is prevalent among many people. The neonatal reviews should therefore, bring out to medical staff the procedures to follow in handling emergency child births. The knowledge which has been amassed over the years by medical personnel if properly used can be of utter importance to improve NICU unit improvement and management.

Additionally, apart from offering insight, neonatal assessments suggest distinct alternatives to the current protocols applied in certifying neonatal care units. In this case, such reviews are important towards conducting in-depth studies on neonatal care. Subsequently, they can be used to establish new and improved benchmarks.

In concluding, NICU certification reviews can be easily overlooked when promoting education. The significant information the reviews offer for knowledge used in institutions of learning is worth noting. The current information from new technologies, standards and developments in treatment of complications are key in service delivery stressing further the importance of neonatal assessments.




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