PEDIATRICS Vol. 70 No. 6 December 1982, pp. 1001-1003
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Through the Looking Glass—Or, Look Before You Leap

GEORGE CASSADY MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, The University of Alabama, School of Medicine, Birmingham

Nurses are now so active in newborn intensive care units that exchange transfusions, lumbar punctures, vascular catheterizations, placement of chest tubes, and many other complex and complicated but time-consuming procedures need no longer burden the busy physician. According to the neonatologists in charge, specially educated nurses are independently performing these and many other tasks in most neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Assuming that similar practices exist in those units not assessed and that nurses are in fact doing what the neonatologists say they are, these amazing observations deserve careful study and deep thought by all who care for newborn infants.




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