Research and Innovation

School of Health and Society

Optimising outcomes in paediatric acute, emergency, and critical care

MSc student projects: 

  1. Long-stay children in the paediatric critical care unit: parental expectations with care compared to professionals’ views: a collective case study design (Lyvonne Tume) 
  1. How do the three paediatric nutrition risk scores (PYMS, STRONGKids, and BCH) work in a critically ill paediatric population? (Lyvonne Tume) 
  1. Lab based simulation study of gastric residual volume accuracy with different gastric tube and syringe sizes (Lyvonne Tume and Scientist) 
  1. Promoting a more therapeutic environment by noise and light reduction in the PICU (Lyvonne Tume) 
  1. Examining nurse-decision-making around sedation boluses and delirium in the PICU (Lyvonne Tume) 
  1. Clinical nurses’ use of EBP in critical care (Lyvonne Tume) 
  1. Evaluating the perceived and observable benefits of sensory spaces in children’s emergency departments (Andrew Rowland)  
  1. Music in children’s emergency departments: what effects does this have on anxiety or experiences (of patients, carers, parents or NHS people)? (Andrew Rowland)