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Remi M Hueckel

Remi M Hueckel

Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
remi.hueckel@duke.edu
Box 3322, School of Nursing, Durham, NC 27710
307 Trent Drive, 3039 Pearson Building - Duson, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Pediatric Murmurs.

Journal Article The Nursing clinics of North America · September 2023 Many healthy children may be found to have a murmur on physical exam. Whether this murmur is discovered at a routine health maintenance visit or as a result of a focused exam on a child with illness, it is just one finding and must be considered in the con ... Full text Cite

Erratum to NAPNAP Position Statement on Incentivizing APRN Preceptors (Journal of Pediatric Health Care (2023) 37(1) (85–89), (S0891524522002425), (10.1016/j.pedhc.2022.09.001))

Journal Article Journal of Pediatric Health Care · May 1, 2023 The publisher regrets that an error was introduced in the Health Policy and Funding Considerations section. The sentence beginning “The GNE program has not been renewed…” should correctly read as “The GNE program has not been renewed since piloted, althoug ... Full text Cite

Expanding Nurse Practitioner Educational Boundaries: Social Media for a Journal Club

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · April 1, 2023 As the number of online acute care pediatric nurse practitioner programs increases, exploration of creative methods to enhance scholarly engagement and develop a professional network among students is imperative. This report describes the use of the Twitte ... Full text Cite

Implementing IPASS Handoff to Improve Patient Safety in Pediatric Critical Care Transport.

Journal Article Air medical journal · March 2023 IntroductionThe aim of this study was to implement a standardized, hospital-based bedside handoff report (IPASS [Illness severity, Patient summary, Action items, Situational awareness, and Synthesis]) in prehospital pediatric critical care transpo ... Full text Cite

Embracing Disruption: Measuring Effectiveness of Virtual Simulations in Advanced Practice Nurse Curriculum.

Journal Article Clinical simulation in nursing · August 2021 Changes in academia have occurred quickly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In-person simulation-based education has been adapted into a virtual format to meet course learning objectives. The methods and procedures leveraged to onboard faculty, staff, ... Full text Cite

Extending the radius of family-centered care in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit through virtual rounding.

Journal Article J Am Assoc Nurse Pract · May 18, 2021 BACKGROUND: The arrival of COVID-19 brought urgent limitation of visitation in hospitals across the country. Family-centered care and its delivery rapidly changed and left the family behind-unable to actively participate in their loved one's care. LOCAL PR ... Full text Link to item Cite

Usability Assessment of an Electronic Handoff Tool to Facilitate and Improve Postoperative Communication Between Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit Staff.

Journal Article Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN · October 2020 The handoff or handover is the exchange of pertinent medical information from one provider to another. Inadequate handoff communication between healthcare providers can negatively impact patient outcomes. In an effort to improve handoff communication, many ... Full text Cite

Using Simulation With Deliberate Practice to Improve Pediatric ICU Nurses' Knowledge, Clinical Teamwork, and Confidence.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric nursing · September 2020 PurposeThe purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement an educational intervention involving High-Fidelity Simulation (HFS) with deliberate practice for low-frequency, high-impact events in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), ... Full text Cite

Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Children in Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units.

Journal Article J Palliat Med · September 2019 Over the past several years, pediatric critical care units increasingly count on the expert advisement of palliative care specialists. Given the limited availability of pediatric palliative care specialists, all palliative care clinicians may be required t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pediatric Patients With Congenital Heart Disease

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · January 1, 2019 Congenital heart disease is a lifelong disease that results from a heart defect or structural anomaly. Signs and symptoms of heart disease vary by age and developmental stage of the pediatric patient. Thorough history and physical examination guide the nur ... Full text Cite

Integrating Telepresence Robots Into Nursing Simulation.

Journal Article Nurse educator · March 2017 This article provides an overview of the use of telepresence robots in clinical practice and describes an evaluation of an educational project in which distance-based nurse practitioner students used telepresence robots in clinical simulations with on-camp ... Full text Cite

Structured Documentation of Home Ventilator Settings in Children: A Quality Improvement Project.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · January 2017 IntroductionIn children requiring long-term mechanical ventilation (LTMV), insufficient admission charting can lead to adverse events. Our purpose in this study was to create and evaluate a structured documentation tool of home LTMV settings to im ... Full text Cite

Writing Across the Curriculum: Strategies to Improve the Writing Skills of Nursing Students.

Journal Article Nursing forum · October 2016 BackgroundWriting across the curriculum (WAC) is a strategy in which writing instruction occurs in classes outside of composition, literature, and other English courses. This literature review was conducted to identify and synthesize the peer-revi ... Full text Cite

An Innovative Use of Telepresence Robots for Educating Healthcare Professional.

Journal Article Studies in health technology and informatics · January 2016 Telehealth enhances communication across distances, facilitates teamwork, and increases access to care, particularly in rural areas. As the use of telehealth technology assimilates into clinical practice, its integration is also needed in clinical curricul ... Cite

Use of Workshops to Develop Nurses' and Nursing Students' Writing Skills.

Journal Article Journal of continuing education in nursing · August 2015 Workshops have been described in the literature as a strategy for preparing nurses to publish their work and develop their writing skills. Articles about the use of workshops for these purposes have not been integrated systematically. Seventeen articles we ... Full text Cite

Cultivating a Culture of Medication Safety in Prelicensure Nursing Students.

Journal Article Nurse educator · July 2015 Safety education in nursing has traditionally focused at the level of individual nurse-patient interactions. Students and novice clinicians lack clinical experience to create context and understand the complexity of the health care system and safety scienc ... Full text Cite

Systematic review of educational programs and strategies for developing students' and nurses' writing skills.

Journal Article The Journal of nursing education · January 2015 The purpose of this article is to describe the outcomes of a systematic review of educational programs and strategies for developing the writing skills of nursing students and nurses. Of 728 screened citations, 80 articles were included in the review. Writ ... Full text Cite

Standardization of health care provider competencies for intrathecal access procedures.

Journal Article J Pediatr Oncol Nurs · 2014 INTRODUCTION: This quality improvement (QI) project addresses a method for experienced health care providers to maintain skill-based competence for intrathecal access procedures. METHODS: A prospective QI design using intrathecal access simulation to asses ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Implementation of the Josie King Care Journal in a pediatric intensive care unit: a quality improvement project.

Journal Article J Nurs Care Qual · 2013 The Care Journal is a tool developed by the Josie King Foundation to promote interactive exchange among providers and patients/families. The Care Journal was implemented in a pediatric intensive care unit, and surveys were administered to assess perception ... Full text Link to item Cite

Transient myeloproliferative disease: keeping a high index of suspicion.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric oncology nursing : official journal of the Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses · September 2012 Transient myeloproliferative disorder (TMD) can be found in well or ill newborns with Down syndrome. Although it is a relatively harmless process for most, in some children, TMD can present as a life-threatening state requiring critical care. As the diseas ... Full text Cite

Implementation of condition help: family teaching and evaluation of family understanding.

Journal Article J Nurs Care Qual · 2012 Partnering with families to deliver safe care includes teaching how to activate the rapid response team (RRT) if their hospitalized child's condition worsens. Condition Help (Condition H) is how families call the RRT. Pediatric nurses used scripted Conditi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Children with new tracheostomies: planning for family education and common impediments to discharge.

Journal Article Pediatric pulmonology · August 2008 ObjectivesTo describe an educational program and timeline for the discharge of children with a new tracheostomy and identify common impediments to the education and discharge process.MethodsRetrospective pilot case series of 70 children a ... Full text Cite

Pediatric tracheostomies: a recent experience from one academic center.

Journal Article Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · January 2008 ObjectivesTo describe the indications, surgical timing, length of stay, hospital charges, and discharge disposition of pediatric tracheostomy patients.DesignRetrospective case series.SettingLarge urban academic pediatric hospital ... Full text Cite

Pediatric Rapid Response Teams in the Academic Medical Center

Journal Article Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine · January 1, 2006 With increased awareness of the prevalence of medical error, efforts to improve health care delivery have focused not only on the study of new therapies to combat disease, but also on the process of patient care. As a result, improved patient outcomes are ... Full text Cite