Friday, 29 August 2014

How NICU Certification Review Are Improving Service Delivery

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.

Due to current specifications of the intensive care units, a NICU is allowed to host at least new 10 newborns at a time. The normal number of staff is two pediatricians and six neonatal intensive nurses who are certified which make the units be in a good position to handle emergencies based on current standards. Although there has been a sharp drop in birth rate according to December 2013 statistics the population still is growing at a constant rate. The operations at ICU should be addressed as to be ready to handle any kind of emergency.

Medical agencies, both private and public, have reviewed the healthcare sector and the information therein has proven important in evaluation of the neonatal intensive care units strengths. Intensive analysis of the facilities followed by reviews and their publications the information is unveiled to those in the medical field and the citizens. This is aimed at collecting information on what would be the best ways to make intensive baby care better. For those aspiring to become nurses, they are enlightened on the operations of the neonatal units.

NICU reviews usually address the costs of establishing new units and maintaining them. Neonatal clinics appear cheap to start and maintain to the eye of ordinary person in reality those equipments there can be equal to the ones found in small hospitals. Reports are drawn from these reviews which give an insight on costs of establishing fully-fledged hospitals for babies which are capable of handling any kind of complication in newborns whether psychological or physical.

Similarly, the equipment used in neonatal clinics is yet another concern addressed by neonatal certification reviews. As mentioned earlier, the facilities operate as singular fully operational units within a hospital and as such operate on singular equipment capable of catering to various forms of complications associated with newborns. As a result, the information provided by such assessments is crucial in offering insights on how such equipment can be improved for improved service delivery.

The ordinary citizens are ignorant on the process of baby delivery. The reviews are thus tasked with the responsibility to pinpoint the activities that are performed prior to emergency child delivery procedures. It also highlights how valuable the knowledge on such procedures is to the medical practitioners. Past experience successively attained by those working in the neonatal units, can provide insight into how the NICU management can be improved.

The reviews are not only a source of valuable insight but also enable the provision of alternatives to the current procedures used in the certification of the neonatal care centers and units. This means that the reviews are an important pivot in the detailed and all inclusive studies on the neonatal units. This can be used as a basis for establishing improved standards or benchmarks for application in the sector.

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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