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Parents of children who died in pediatric intensive care units want doctors and nurses to know that they respect and appreciate care providers' technical skills, but what they need more of is a personal, emotional connection with their children's medical providers.
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Communication between health care providers and the families of critically ill and dying children is simultaneously the most important and most difficult task in some cases.
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Nurses or physicians who place patients in restraints or in isolation now must meet stricter training and documentation requirements thanks to a strengthened federal patient's rights rule effective as of Feb. 6.
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For some parents who find out that genetic or metabolic tests on their newborns indicate a potential problem, finding out the results were false positive doesn't always mean the stress goes away. In some cases, the lingering stress from the false-positive scare influences how the parents perceive the health of their children for years afterward.
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A Wisconsin nurse who was arrested on a felony charge stemming from an unintentional medical error that led to the death of a patient last summer will serve three years of probation after pleading no contest to reduced charges, but medical and nursing societies are concerned about the effect the case might have in future medical error situations.
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