Sleep, stress, and the pandemic As healthcare professionals, our concern for patients doesn’t stop at the end of a shift. That concern carries over into home life as well, and too often our own health takes a backseat to everyone else’s. From diet to…
“There just aren’t enough hours in the day.” You’ve probably heard this uttered many times. Nurses who are balancing work, home and friendships have so many things on their daily to-do list, sleep is often viewed as being the one variable they can change. Sleeping…
Nurses at the Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) were distraught when they learned some of their former patients had passed of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Philadelphia has high rates of SIDS, with 45 babies dying…
In the United States, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) continues to be the leading cause of death among babies 12 months and younger.1 Approximately 3,000 infants die each year as a result of SIDS.2 Prior to a national prevention campaign and a major educational push…
Nurses at Community Hospital are brainstorming about ways to move Lake County, Ind., out of the last place as the county with the highest number of Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths (SIUDs). SIUDs are infant deaths that are unexpected and initially unexplained. SIDS is classified…
Nearly twenty years ago, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the “Back to Sleep” campaign that sought to educate parents and caregivers about putting their babies to sleep on their backs.…