Janet Pinelli

TL;DR: The results of the review indicate that developmental care interventions demonstrate some benefit to preterm infants with respect to improved short-term growth outcomes, decreased respiratory support, decreased length and cost of hospital stay, and improved neurodevelopmental outcomes to 24 months corrected age.

TL;DR: Six issues influencing the introduction of advanced practice nursing (APN) roles are discussed: confusion about APN terminology, failure to define clearly the roles and goals, role emphasis on physician replacement/support, underutilization of all APN role domains, failures to address environmental factors that undermine the roles, and limited use of evidence-based approaches to guide their development, implementation and evaluation.

TL;DR: For preterm neonates who are 32 weeks' postmenstrual age or older, KC seems to effectively decrease pain from heel lancing, and that parents of neonates in critical care units want to participate more in comforting their children, KC is a potentially beneficial strategy for promoting family health.

TL;DR: This study aims to explore and compare the levels of psychopathology in a regional cohort of ELBW infants and sociodemographically matched term controls as reported by teens and their parents to include both parent and teen self-report of behaviors.

TL;DR: In order to increase the incidence and duration of breastfeeding preterm infants, researchers must examine breastfeeding experiences longitudinally so that they can begin to understand the barriers to breastfeeding at various time periods in the breastfeeding experience and begin implementing strategies to remove these barriers.