Newborn and infant nursing reviews : NAINR最新文献

Parents may find themselves at a loss when it comes to navigating the challenges that arise when their newborn is being cared for in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Nurses are key sources of support to guide parents in their journey. From prenatal counseling to discharge preparations, parents who partner with nurses and the health care team are better able to assume their roles as parents. Overcoming the stress associated with NICU care is possible with creative partnerships that empower parents to build self-confidence and competence in their role as parents. Interventions are suggested to guide staff to assess individual family’s needs and structure care delivery to improve patient outcomes. Support for nursing staff is essential to maximize empathetic care of families in crisis in the NICU.

The family-centered care model is becoming a broadly accepted care concept for infants in the intensive care environment. The involvement of parents as equal partners to deliver optimal care for the baby is one key element of this concept. This article highlights seven aspects to be addressed when parents become an integral part of the care team. Healthcare professionals need to stand in the parents’ shoes and to acknowledge the different coping strategies. Valuing the unique role of parents, the care team supports, educates, and guides the parents with respect and empathy, and according to the parents’ individual, needs. Achieving a successful partnership often requires a change of attitude and thinking among the healthcare team. Recognizing the dynamic process and foreseeing access to training and guidance, as well as creating an open atmosphere can help to overcome challenges and achieve acceptance of the new coaching role from the whole team.

Neonatal care is a highly complex specialized area in medicine and nursing. While evidence is growing to support our interventions, there are still a lot of gray areas. This column “Point - Counterpoint” is meant to evoke more questions than answers, to debate topics from both sides-not suggesting one is right, the other wrong. This issue’s topic is: 12-h shifts and the impact on quality and continuity of care. We invite your thoughts.

Neonatal nursing care issues are of global importance. Just as the world has focused on the challenges of premature birth for the past few years, the emphasis now shifts to the role nurses play in health outcomes of this vulnerable population and health care workforce issues such as training, education, and the deployment of specialty trained personnel. How do we learn in the best way? The answer: face to face, heart to heart, hand to hand — all of which are possible at national meetings and conferences. To that end, the Canadian Association of Neonatal Nurses (CANN) and COINN are hosting the 2016 COINN conference in Vancouver, Canada, where neonatal nurses and other health professionals will learn from one another and share best practices.

This Research Methodology Column will address issues and topics pertinent to conducting neonatal and infant research. Some of the columns will address current issues and topics while others will address longstanding or classic issues and topics. The goals of these columns are to inform novice and expert nurse researchers about the research process with neonates and infants, and help troubleshoot issues that might prevent, impede, or suspend research. This second column is devoted to the first considerations of recruitment of neonate/infant research participants.

Parents whose babies are admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are subject to a variety of stresses that increase their risk to suffer from postpartum depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and anxiety disorders. Parental distress can adversely impact parent-infant bonding, which in turn can lead to worse outcomes for the child. An interdisciplinary workgroup convened by the National Perinatal Association (NPA) has published recommendations for psychosocial support of NICU parents. This article presents nurses, who are key players in quality improvement (QI) initiatives in their hospitals, with a QI approach to transforming care in NICUs to provide comprehensive family support using the NPA recommendations as a road map.

Palliative care is an integral part of neonatal care. Nurses are key to the integration of the family in this type of care. Nurses are also key players to improved communication among the health care team. This article will discuss palliative care as a part of family-centered care and the critical role nurses play.