Pediatric Critical Care Nursing: Implementing Nurse-Led Interventions in Pediatric Critical Care

Dear Colleagues,

Nurses are present with critically ill children and families the most throughout a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission. However, interventions that leverage nurses’ positionality to optimize support for families during and following a PICU stay are lacking. This Special Issue therefore aims to advance the science and future implementation of nurse-led and nurse-involved interventions that focus on supporting child, family (e.g., parents, siblings, grandparents, chosen family, etc.) and nurse acute and long-term outcomes. To accomplish this goal, we seek original research papers, including quantitative and qualitative descriptive studies of novel roles for nurse-led/nurse-involved intervention opportunities, pilot and feasibility studies, clinical trials, protocol papers, implementation studies and innovative, family-driven (e.g., family representatives involved in intervention design) intervention development procedures. We welcome manuscripts that describe novel nurse-led and/or interprofessional team-based approaches to improve both acute and long-term outcomes such as delirium, language accessibility, early mobility, family-centered care, care experience, post-traumatic stress and more (list is illustrative, not exhaustive). 

Dr. Elizabeth Broden Arciprete
Dr. Mallory A. Perry
Guest Editors

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