Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland, CA
Intensive Care Nursery
747 52nd St.
Oakland, CA
USA 94609
Biographical Sketch: Carolyn Lund is the neonatal clinical specialist and ECMO coordinator in the intensive care nursery at Children's Hospital in Oakland, CA. She has been a neonatal nurse for over 30 years, and clinical nurse specialist for 25 years. Her areas of expertise include skin care, thermoregulation, chronic lung disease, and new technologies in the care of high risk newborns.
Carolyn has published articles and book chapters on neonatal skin care, as well as conducting original research on skin adhesives, maturation of skin barrier function in extremely low birth weight infants and the effect of three different phototherapy devices on transepidermal water loss in premature and full term neonates. These studies have been presented at the Society of Pediatric Research, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the National Association of Neonatal Nurses, and published in both nursing and medical journals.
As the primary investigator for the evidence-based practice project on neonatal skin care for AWHONN and NANN, she led the science team in writing an evidence-based skin care practice guideline, evaluated the use of this guideline at 51 US hospitals including over 2,800 newborns, and authored an educational program regarding neonatal skin care. For this project she developed a tool to evaluate the skin condition of neonates (Neonatal Skin Condition Score NSCS) and recently published data supporting the validity and reliability for this tool. She was also selected as team leader for the revision of the Neonatal Skin Care Guideline, released in December 2007.