🟠 CHNC 2025 COVERAGE - You can't walk through water without getting wet
The Incubator Channel · 12 Nov 2025 · 15 min
Summary
Dr Chavis Patterson (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) discusses NICU staff mental health, including toxic stress, compassion fatigue, irritability and sleep disturbance. He outlines practical strategies such as brief arrival and departure routines, peer debriefs, multidisciplinary check-ins, employee assistance programmes and embedded NICU psychologists, and he argues for institutional advocacy.
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