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 Published: 20/02/2009

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Site Visit October 14, 2003

We've had a few more visits to check on progress and check that things are as we anticipated.  Our last visit was one month ago, and the unit is almost finished apart from the installation of the ceiling mounted supplies and some other relatively minor work.

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This is the ParentCare office, just outside the main doors into NICU.

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The main corridor for parents and visitors leads straight to the reception area.

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The education room (off the main corridor) is a bit smaller than our current room at NWH, but there is an adjoining meeting room that opens into it to increase space.

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And there is a nice view if the education sessions are not to your fancy.

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The tea room however is large, will have a dishwasher as well as the usual fridge and TV, and also has filtered water directly plumbed in ....

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... and has a similarly nice (but somewhat limited) view outside.

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The Whanau Room has a kitchenette area for food preparation

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The Level 3 and 2 Interview room is large, has piped oxygen and suction, and has a lot of storage space for baby cloths etc.

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The Level 3 rooms now have parent bedside lockers installed.

Level3RoomViewBackToCorridor.jpg (27456 bytes)

The Level 3 are airy and large.  The ceiling mounted supplies are still to be installed.

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Infection Control will be happy with the size of these basins...

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...and the isolation room (which is set up with the same layout as a Level 3 room)

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The blood gas machine is in a relatively central part of the Level 3 area.

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The reception is in the hub of the unit.

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There is a lot of area of storage.  A Lamson tube for laboratory samples is seen at the right of the picture.

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There is a waiting area across from the reception that will hold two sofas.

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Some of the walls in the corridors have a splash of colour.

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It may not look like it, but the staff workroom is large.  The PACS x-ray viewer will be in here, as well as the NICU library area and lots of lots of stationery.

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The PIN rooms have an outlook into the centre of the hospital.  The central workstation contains a lot of space for storage and will also provide a structure to break up the room.

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The equipment store (seen from the adjacent clean-up room) should be large enough to store most of our equipment, including at least one transport set.