CH-PM Psychosocial care, mental health and wellbeing
A short summary in PICUlearn's own words. The original wording is in the publisher's document.
- PM1 Building therapeutic relationships with children and families
- PM2 Responding to young people with mental health problems
- PM3 Behaviour monitoring and escalation
- PM4 Partnership communication and difficult conversations
- PM5 Self-care and staff wellbeing
- PM6 Psychosocial aspects in care planning
- PM7 Psychosocial impact of hospital admission
- PM8 Adolescent-specific psychosocial needs
- PM9 Relevant legal frameworks including capacity and liberty
- PM10 Neurodiversity and developmental differences in care planning
- PM11 Health promotion opportunities
- PM12 Diversity and cultural factors in care planning
- PM13 Multidisciplinary and external agency roles and referral
- PM14 Recognising own limits in psychosocial care
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Course modules
Videos
- Pediatric Medical Complexity: Shared Insights by B. Markovitz & A. Schrooten | OPENPediatricsOPENPediatricsVideo
- Strength in the System: Caregiver Wellbeing in African PICUsOPENPediatricsVideo
- The Culture of Care: Supporting PICU Staff Across European SystemsOPENPediatricsVideo
- Leading Well: The Role of Leadership in PICU Caregiver WellbeingOPENPediatricsVideo
- Communication Strategies & Palliative Care in the PICU--Part 2Zac HodgesVideo
- Wellbeing and Resilience in Latin American PICUsOPENPediatricsVideo
- Communication Strategies & Palliative Care in the PICU--Part 1Zac HodgesVideo
- The Invisible ICU Patient: Mental Health of PICU Staff in High-Intensity CulturesOPENPediatricsVideo
- Battling burnout in pediatric intensive careKevin Pho, MDVideo
Guidelines and evidence
- Parental experiences of their infant's hospital admission undergoing cardiac surgery: A systematic review.Acta Paediatrica, 2021Guideline or evidence
- Good practices for humanization in pediatric intensive care units: a national Delphi consensus study.Intensive & Critical Care Nursing (HU-CI Project, Spanish expert panel), 2026Guideline or evidence
- Diagnosis and management of Children with Post-Intensive Care Syndrome in Paediatrics: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the French National Authority for Health (HAS).Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), France, 2026Guideline or evidence
- Perceived family-centered care and post-traumatic stress in parents of infants cared for in the paediatric cardiac intensive care unit.Nursing in Critical Care, 2024Guideline or evidence
- Effectiveness and family experiences of interventions promoting partnerships between families and pediatric and neonatal intensive care units: a mixed methods systematic review.JBI (JBI Evidence Synthesis), 2024Guideline or evidence
- A simulation based difficult conversations intervention for neonatal intensive care unit nurse practitioners: A randomized controlled trial.PLoS One, 2020Guideline or evidence
- Long-term psychosocial impact reported by childhood critical illness survivors: a systematic review.Nursing in Critical Care, 2014Guideline or evidence
- A Systematic Review of the Factors Associated with Post-Traumatic Growth in Parents Following Admission of Their Child to the Intensive Care Unit.Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 2022Guideline or evidence