Amanda Watson
Bio
Amanda Watson is a junior nursing student at the University of Pennsylvania and is in her first year of the Hillman Scholars Program. Her prospective area of study involves the geriatric population with focus on end-of-life conversations between patients and their family members, and also patients and their health care providers. Amanda wants to find a way to help patients foster relationships that allow them to speak openly about their wishes for end-of-life care with the hope that they will be able to die on their own terms feeling heard and understood by those who matter most. She is currently working on a research team with the Perelman Medicine Division of Geriatrics studying barriers and facilitators to aging in place for older adults in affordable housing in Philadelphia. Amanda is looking forward to her career as a Hillman Scholar and hopes that her research will have a meaningful impact on older adult patients and their families.
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Penn Nursing Professor Leads National Organization
Amanda Bettencourt, PhD, APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, is the new president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) board of directors. She began her one-year term on July 1, 2022.
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Investigating the Effects of Critical Illness in Early Childhood on Neurocognitive Outcomes
Approximately 23,700 children in the U.S. undergo invasive mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure annually. Although most survive, little is known if they have worse long-term neurocognitive function than children who do not undergo such procedures. There are concerns about neurotoxic effects of critical illness and its treatment on the developing brain. Therefore, infants and young children may be uniquely susceptible to adverse neurocognitive outcomes after invasive mechanical ventilation.
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The Effects of Pediatric Critical Illness on Absenteeism
Children who survive critical illness and their parents commonly experience physical, emotional, and cognitive conditions as a result of the critical illness. These effects can also include prolonged absences from school and/or work. What has not been fully understood is the rate and duration of school absences among these children and work absences among their caregivers.