Last Thursday we had a very special visitor from South Bend Indiana–Dr. Bob White, neonatologist and NICU design expert. Dr. White spoke to us about the micro and macro environments in the NICU, and what these two perspectives imply for design and operation. Dr. White stressed how NICUs are first and foremost an extremely artificial environment […]
Yesterday our class toured the Lucile Packard NICU. I think many students suddenly understood the issues at hand by being in the center of it all. In room 4 there was a baby getting dialysis. A senior NICU nurse overheard Dr. Rhine and pleaded with us to take notes from the nurses. We will be […]
Premature birth, anxious parents, desensitized medical staff, obtrusive technologies, cramped spaces, feeling “out of control,” and having the sense that for the parents, there was “not enough information”. These were all observations our class discussed after we (a group of clinicians and educators) presented two different NICU simulations yesterday at CAPE. This was the first […]
Yesterday we worked on persona development. We used the concept of “closed prototypes” to communicate our ideas. Hmmm… what the heck is a closed prototype you ask? To start, we gave each student group a pile of photos. Each pile represented a character and his/her life. I had chosen photos to represent a NICU nurse, […]
Yesterday was our first class. Dr. Rhine gave an overview of the types of clinicians we will be studying in the NICU, the various medical interventions they perform, and a bit about Family/Patient-Centered Care. Our 20 fantastic students have already begun to learn the design thinking process through our first activity: The Oral Hygiene Challenge. […]
I just finished Mardelle McCuskey Shepley’s new book, Design For Pediatric And NeoNatal Critical Care. This book is hot off the press, published earlier this year. Mardelle McCuskey Shepley is a Professor of Architecture and Director of the Center for Health Systems & Design at Texas A&M University. We have the great privilege of having Mardelle speak at […]
I recently purchased a book online called Putting Patients First–Field Guide by, Susan B. Frampton, Patrick A. Charmel and Susan Guastello. The book is unique in that it truly teaches (rather than tells) the reader through sharing global lessons regarding implementation of patient-centered care systems. This is the third edition of the Putting Patients First […]
REDESIGNING THE NEONATAL ICU Dr. William Rhine and I are excited to let you know that ReDesigning the Neonatal ICU has been greenlit for Fall 2014 at Stanford’s d. School! I will be attending the student information event on Feb. 11 from 12-1pm at the d. School to answer prospective student’s questions. We are looking […]
This morning I attended the El Camino Grand Rounds where Dr. Jane Morton, breastfeeding expert and pediatrician, spoke about best practices for supporting exclusive and long-term breastfeeding among newly delivered mothers. I am posting a few slides from her talk I found to be particularly interesting. Her talk was passionate, and evidence based. I enjoyed […]
http://inamay.com/reducing-fear-of-birth-in-u-s/ Ina May Gaskin