Janet E. Rennick
Janet E. Rennick, RN, MScN, PhD, Nurse Scientist, The Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, and Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
BIO: Dr Janet Rennick is a Nurse Scientist in the Department of Nursing at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, an investigator with the Montreal Children’s Hospital site of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, and an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at McGill University. She holds a Chercheur-boursier clinicien (Clinical Research Fellowship Award) from the Fonds de la recherche en sante du Québec, and a New Investigator Award from Sick Kids Foundation and the Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research National Grants Program. Her research focuses on (1) the impact of severe illness and exposure to highly invasive, technological care on the child and family; and (2) innovations in care to enhance child comfort and parent involvement during pediatric intensive care unit hospitalization, and promote healthy recovery following critical illness.
PRESENTATION TITLE AND DESCRIPTION:
Children’s Psychological Outcomes Following Critical Illness: How do We Measure the Impact of High Tech Care?
The past few decades have witnessed tremendous developments in technologies and treatment regimes to treat critically ill children; yet there is mounting evidence to suggest these children can suffer significant psychological repercussions following Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) hospitalization. This presentation will focus on what is known about children’s psychological outcomes following PICU hospitalization, and provide an overview of our research in developing child self-report measures to assess psychological distress in this population.
At the completion of this presentation, the participant will:
- Demonstrate a general understanding of research findings regarding children’s psychological outcomes following PICU hospitalization.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the complexities of measuring psychological outcomes in children following PICU hospitalization.
- Identify the challenges in developing self-report measures of psychological distress for young children post-critical illness.