Research On Quality Sleep

Sharing a positive example of research from the Z flo for infants positioner/ I worked in the  NICU for nine years with the smallest citizens, you can imagine.

A protocol was written about the quality of rest an infant needed to grow. So the research question was "Will Z-flos help an infant sleep long?"  Deep sleep is how an infant heals. The environment plays a part ( lights, sound and touch) but actual quality of the environment takes the place of the womb in the outside world. So the research went on for a couple of months, The infant would be place on the z-flo at 9:pm and  the nurse would document the times the infant would wake up (not including the assessment times) while he or she was on the z-flo.  Again the next night at the same time without the mattress, documentation was collected. From there,  another part of the day was added,  this would happen in the morning and a night.  Ultimately data shared our hypothesis, the infant slept better on the z-flo.  Parents were relieve that their child was getting satisfactory sleep in the world of  NICU.

                                        

My chosen topic for my simulation is Teacher Burnout.

Simulation

In the last year  our center has  made some adjustments to preparing for “Set Up to Quality” requirements.  A lot of the paperwork takes away from that rich relationship between the teacher and child because intentional anecdotes, documented observations, portfolios screeners and assessment  need to be current, and factual ( which I agree) . Teachers have shared, they just don’t have enough planning time while meeting the needs and giving relationship attention to the children individually and as a group. This concern is more so in the infant rooms because schedules and routines are also a factor.

Personal experience

My personal experience in this process are finding ways to help teachers get out of the room more for their planning times. Example, days that we don’t have meetings  using that  hour to plan,
or cutting down on forms so that screeners and parent conference forms  can be used as a onetime lesson plan for that month,  so that  planning the following  week will  help the  teachers  stay a head of paper work.  

 

Insights gained

As I become more familiar with my course work, I’m paying closer attention to websites that offer research data. At this point just discovering more educational sites is big for me. A few examples ; http://www.childcareexchange.com/eed/

http://www.cdc.gov/

http://www.naeyc.org/policy/ecwsi 

 http://www.aap.org/en-us/Pages/Default.aspx and my favorite http://www.centerforchildhoodcreativity.org/research/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAreilBRDzrNfb6uqX4fwBEiQAk-MRY_dbKHCpCvEJER0650g-i3oGD7J6WJ58LnJApFeFPQEaAk318P8HAQ  which comes from Zero to Three

 

I’m learning how to make sense of new terminology of research  and applying it in  everyday life on my job. IF you have any websites that I should add to my list please feel free to guide me or just hearing your experiences will help me greatly.