littlestALLSTAR
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- Apr 5, 2011
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In your experiences in the NICU did you work with or come in contact with a child life specialist at all?
The Child Life program for NICU deals mostly with preparing siblings of our patients for visits into the unit. The majority of our patient population is just too little for the services they provide. I see them doing their best work with our PICU/peds and oncology kids. Its a great job, but a very difficult one to get due to how few of them there are. We employ over 300 nurses in our Childrens hospital, and there are around 6-8 child life team members. Some of them are unpaid interns as we are a teaching hospital. The Fierceroid