Loyola Nurse Receives Top Honor for Work to Assess Pain in Preemies
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 20:30
in Health & Medicine
Until a decade ago, nurses had limited means to effectively measure whether a premature infant was in pain. Loyola University Health System (LUHS) neonatal intensive care nurse practitioner Patricia Hummel, NNP-BC, RN, cared for these fragile patients and became determined to develop a reliable tool that would evaluate pain and sedation levels to help improve care for babies.