CYP Potential MSc Projects

Projects in Optimising outcomes in acute and critical illness

1. Long-stay patients in the paediatric critical care unit: parental expectations with care compared to professionals’ views: a collective case study design (Supervisor Lyvonne Tume)
2. How do the 3 paediatric nutrition risk scores (PYMS, STRONGKids, and BCH) work in a critically ill pediatric population?
3. Lab based simulation study of gastric residual volume accuracy with different gastric tube and syringe sizes (Supervisor Lyvonne Tume and Science person)
4. Promoting a more therapeutic environment by noise and light reduction in the PICU
5. Examining nurse-decision-making around sedation boluses in the PICU (Supervisor Lyvonne Tume)
6. Clinical nurses’ use of EBP in critical care
7. Exploring the complexity in assessment and scoring of pediatric delirium