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Peer support for CHEO staff, medical staff and learners has significantly improved thanks in large part to the vision of critical care nurses in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
It began when PICU Advanced Practice Nurse Sophia Bucking and her colleagues felt the toll of a traumatic case during a shift in 2017.
News PostParents experience sudden trauma, shock, fear and sadness when a baby requires intensive care immediately after birth, and they have to face many losses.
That first cuddle.
News PostCHEO is expanding its use of virtual reality (VR) to help children and youth with cerebral palsy who struggle with anxiety when receiving intramuscular-administered medication, part of a multi-site study on the benefits of VR as a distraction tool.
Kids with cerebral palsy (CP), the most common childhood motor disability, face higher-than-normal muscle tone.
News PostFollowing months of construction, the newly renovated CHEO MRI suite is up and running, offering new décor, enhanced space to improve the patient experience and eventually shorten wait times.
The new suite is also home to a new GE SIGNA Artist Evo MRI magnet, which offers more accurate and timely diagnosis, leveraging innovative new AI Deep learning technology scanning through the new higher resolution images.
News PostThis is an important summer for CHEO’s new Integrated Treatment Centre as staff, medical staff and some families get a first look at the proposed layout and provide their feedback to help shape the space.
The new integrated treatment centre, which will be built in front of the main CHEO building on Smyth Road, will offer improved care and coordination, and increase access to services for children and youth living with complex medical, developmental, behavioural and mental health needs.
News PostCHEO has taken the express lane in the past year to grow and transform thanks to historic government funding, which has helped Ottawa’s pediatric hospital shorten wait-lists, hire more staff, and capitalize on innovation to provide the best care to every child and youth.
Last July, after years of advocacy alongside the By CHEO - Jul 17, 2024
News PostApplied behaviour analysts will be regulated health professionals in Ontario for the first time as of July 1, 2024, and CHEO is prepared for the change.
News PostCHEO is highlighting its engagement with First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities featuring different perspectives from various Indigenous partners.
This article features a conversation with Anita Tenasco, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, on CHEO's new Integrated Treatment Centre.
News PostLaunched in January 2024, a new multi-disciplinary clinic at CHEO is the first of its kind in Canada to help children with neurofibromatosis and their families by transforming complex, busy care schedules into one appointment.
News PostCHEO has hundreds of talented nurses including those who lead, facilitate and inspire evidence-based implementation of best practice guidelines.
They’re called Best Practice Guideline (BPG) Nurse Champions.
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