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1. NurseWeek: Pets Come to Visit : The comfort of furry friends :
www.nurseweek.com/news/Feature - [Cached]Published on: 5/9/2005 Last Visited: 5/9/2005
,Some patients comment that it,s better than a shot of morphine,, laughs Lea Ann Matura, RN, RN, NP-C, CCRN. Matura is an advanced practice nurse with Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, where pet visits are a common practice.
Impressive results
Matura has seen the dramatic benefits of personal pet visitation first-hand and remembers the first time Methodist Hospital allowed a pet to visit its owner, a woman with lung cancer and little will to live.
,This was a patient who hardly ever woke up or spoke, never got out of bed and rarely ate anything,, Matura recalls. ,But as soon as her dog got up on her bed and ran up to her face, the patient sat up and was talkative, her face pinked up, and she was a totally different person. -
2. NurseWeek News
www.nurseweek.com/news/Feature - [Cached]Published on: 5/9/2005 Last Visited: 7/10/2006
,Some patients comment that it,s better than a shot of morphine,, laughs Lea Ann Matura, RN, RN, NP-C, CCRN. Matura is an advanced practice nurse with Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, where pet visits are a common practice.
Impressive results
Matura has seen the dramatic benefits of personal pet visitation first-hand and remembers the first time Methodist Hospital allowed a pet to visit its owner, a woman with lung cancer and little will to live.
,This was a patient who hardly ever woke up or spoke, never got out of bed and rarely ate anything,, Matura recalls. ,But as soon as her dog got up on her bed and ran up to her face, the patient sat up and was talkative, her face pinked up, and she was a totally different person.
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, I thought getting the doctors to go along with this might be a challenge, but it wasn,t., Matura adds that the only challenge she,s faced is one of coordination, particularly when it,s for an imminent death. -
3. www.LearnICU.org
www.LearnICU.org/SCCM/Membersh - [Cached]Published on: 11/17/2007 Last Visited: 12/5/2007
Lea Ann Matura, RN, MSN, CCRN, NP-C
