Kangaroo care is the act of placing a neonate skin to skin with their mother or father. This care is commonly provided by mothers but can also be provided by fathers. Paternal kangaroo care offers many benefits for both the father and the neonate. By implementing this care, the opportunity for fathers to bond with their neonate is provided. This bonding experience is important as many neonates spend several weeks in the NICU. The time away from their neonate can be particularly stressful for the family. Kangaroo care provides a means for the father to provide care for his neonate during their time in the NICU. The benefits to the neonate include maintaining greater temperature stability, stabilized heart rate, and respirations within …show more content…
The articles express that the benefits for neonates receiving kangaroo care are great and this care is encouraged. I was pleased to find many articles that focused on the temperature stability of low birth weight neonates. The articles found that neonates who participated with kangaroo care experienced greater temperature stability then those who did not. According to Turnbull and Petty (2013), the mother or father maintains the neonates’ body temperature in a neutral thermal environment when performing kangaroo care. Another advantage to kangaroo care is that the parents experienced in reduction in their separation-dependent stress (Turnbull and Petty, 2013).
Several of the articles about kangaroo care focused on implementation. There is much research about the benefits but the number of neonates receiving this care is discouraging. The study of kangaroo care began many years ago but the information is not being utilized. Having the mother and newborn experience skin to skin, chest to chest contact was first studied in 1970 (Ludington-Hoe, 2011). The progress of implementing kangaroo care by nurses in the United States is a slow process. The slow progression is likely due to the lack of education and understanding of the benefits of kangaroo care. It is suggested that nurses be trained on the use of kangaroo care and how it can positively affect patient outcomes.
Many neonates are born extremely ill
The [DH] Toolkit (2009) outlines a commission framework to aid with strategic development of neonatal service that highlights the need to ensure the babies and families are the focus during their pathway of care given. The following care services should be commissioned as a part of neonatal care, these include transfer services, cot location services as well as a maternity bed (DH, 2009). Family centred care throughout their stay and ongoing into community with follow up services and a range of support services throughout and post care (Smith & Coleman, 2010). The DH toolkit can be used to a strategic level with regional and network planning as well as receiving support from commissioners. The toolkit is designed to support the delivery in
In this article, the authors emphasize the effectiveness of Kangaroo Care on neonatal infants. The author is fond of Kangaroo Care because of its least invasive, cost effective, and natural treatment that can help with infant’s temperature. The purpose for this article is to answer the questions about Kangaroo Care and note the variety of benefits that it can do for infants. In addition, this article recognizes the benefit Kangaroo Care has on third world nations and that this natural treatment can help the infants that do not have access to the health care system. However, in resource rich countries, the incubator is commonly used and Kangaroo care is coming rarer. The reason Kangaroo Care is rising to the surface again is because there is a desire to humanize the care, promote early bonding, and establish breastfeeding.
Special care and attention must be given to infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) because of their small size and the health complications they face. One particular challenge faced by health care professionals in the NICU is the management of pain for preterm babies. Preterm infants must undergo a wide range of tests, procedures, and, often, life-saving measures during their hospitalizations, which not only subjects them to pain, but pain-related stress and anxiety. This has an impact on the infants themselves, as well as on the family members and friends who are involved in their care (Smith, Steelfisher, Salhi, & Shen, 2012). The purpose of this paper is to examine the problem of pain management among preterm NICU patients and propose the implementation of kangaroo care as a pain management technique.
In 2006 to 2012 the Aboriginal infant mortality rate was eight infant deaths per 1,000 live births, the non-indigenous infant mortality rate of four infant deaths per 1,000 live births. Over the last ten years the aboriginal infant mortality rate has decreased from ten deaths in 2001 to seven deaths in 2010 per 1,000 live births and it continues to decrease. This could be due to better health care facilities and better knowledge of health and hygiene within aboriginal communities.
The APN leader interviewed for this paper is a Board Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP), Chery Arnett works in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. She began as a registered nurse in 1981, then in 2001earned her CNP title. She manages and cares for the ill neonate, collaborates with Neonatologist and Pediatricians to improve overall health outcomes. She provides support and assists ventilation, assists with deliveries both “normal” and high risk infants, provides care for the healthy newborns, also providing guidance to parents for caring for the “neonate” or healthy newborns. She is also responsible for assessments, orders, treatment plans, medications, and discharge of the infant. CNP’s provide initial, ongoing and comprehensive care, including managing patients with acute and chronic illness and diseases for both premature infants and term infants.
Nearly 400,000 infants are admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) each year. This can be an intensely overwhelming, stressful, and emotionally draining experience for the families and, especially the parents, of the infants requiring care in the NICU. With the help of an emerging care delivery model known as family centered care, health care providers can ease some of the stress during a NICU stay by involving the parents in the cares of their infant. Basic ideas of family centered care include: parental involvement in the cares of their
Within every change there are issues that will need to be resolved, and that is why this paper discussed various strategies to overcome those challenges. Kangaroo Mother Care helps improve the health of preterm infants in the NICU, along with their parents. That is why it is crucial to implement the change, and start making a different in these infant’s
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69-70), the first important thing for her is to avoid the consumption of alcohol, smoking, and drugs. She will need to follow a healthy diet that includes folic acid which is “vital to prenatal development” (p.74). Furthermore, she will need to avoid stress, anxiety and keep a stable mental health. There are several effective ways to care for LBW babies, as stated by Boyd, Johnson & Bee (2018), at birth LBW babies might not be able to suck and be breastfed by their mothers and doctors may use intravenous feeding or insert a tube in the esophagus or stomach to help the baby get the nutrients they he/she needs. Parents response to the LBW baby is crucial and may contribute to how fast the baby develops. The Kangaroo care or skin-to-skin is another way to help LBW babies develop by letting parents hold them for long times (pp. 102-103). Women should abstain completely from smoking and drinking throughout the pregnancy, the most critical period is the first
Kangaroo care as described by Dr. Susan Ludington, is more than just skin-to-skin contact. Kangaroo care is having the infant’s chest directly touching the mother’s chest (Ludington, 2014). Kangaroo care provides the opportunity for the baby to bond with whomever is providing the kangaroo care, mother or father usually (Ludington, 2014). When the mother is using kangaroo care with the infant, the infant is more likely to start breastfeeding, which is important shortly after birth so that the infant gets the first dose of breast milk which contains colostrum, which is thought to be the babies first immunization (Ludington, 2014). According to Kathleen Kuhn and Megan Kuhn, when using kangaroo care with a premature infant, nurses will help decide when the best time to hold the baby is. Some benefits of kangaroo care for the mother include a higher production of milk, the mother feeling closer to the baby, help with coping due to “the baby blues”, learning to respond to the baby’s needs, increased confidence for the mother, and the initiation of breastfeeding (Kuhn & Kuhn, 2011). Benefits for the baby include sleeping better, crying less, regulation of body temperature, the ability to move to an open crib sooner, better breathing, weight gain, preparation for breastfeeding, and more connection with the mother (Kuhn & Kuhn,
Parents of premature infants are also provided the opportunity to participate in Kangaroo Care – a form of skin-to-skin contact that encourages bonding, interaction and cuddling between parents and small babies. In addition to the emotional and psychological benefits of Kangaroo Care, this technique encourages breastfeeding, helps baby to sleep better and contributes to being released from hospital earlier. At Sharp Mary Birch’s hospital the NICU has a multidisciplinary team which consists of lactation specialists, neonatal nurse practitioners, nurses, nutritionists, occupational and physical therapists, physicians, respiratory care practitioners and social workers. Whether a baby was born prematurely is with other complications, this specialty care unit is a place where babies can grow, heal, and receive the highest quality medical care and attention. The Maternal Infant Services (MIS) Unit at Sharp Mary Birch provides care for women after their delivery of their babies. They monitor the mothers and babies physical recoveries and provide education and practice in caring for the new baby. Sharp Mary Birch has some of the best combination of technology, medical services and the healing arts programs for their patients, which also include cord blood banking. Sharp HealthCare has partnered
NICU infants are vulnerable to developmental delays, research has shown parents of NICU patients to undergo more stress and anxiety than parents of healthy infants, and the emotional and developmental needs of siblings of NICU patients are often overlooked (Smith, Desai, Sira, & Engelke, 2014, p. 5-6). Clinical NICU team members are devoted to the successful physical care of NICU infants, but the nature of this intensive care creates a gap formed by the social, emotional, and developmental needs of NICU patients and families that medical professionals are often unable to meet. “…Parents are worried and stressed and need information and empathy from nurses and doctors as well as encouragement and support in their role as parents,” (Wigert, Dellenmark, & Bry, 2013, p. 12). Further, the expectation of a new brother or sister snowballs into confusion for siblings of a NICU patient (Sandler, Robinson, & Carter, 2012, p. 1). And for those families struck by grief and bereavement from loss of a NICU infant, leaving the hospital with less than you imagined requires an entirely other process of coping. CCLSs can purposefully fill this gap as integrated members of the NICU team as experts in psychosocial and developmental care by providing parental and sibling education, infant developmental assessments, and emotional and bereavement support (Smith et al., 2014, p.
How does communication can help people in medical field? Does it serve patients and health staffs as many as other significant factors such as knowledge and experience? There is no doubt communication plays an important role in treatment procedures. For example, in NICU, neonatal intensive care unit, communication among parents and health care providers and also communication between care unite staffs has a tremendous effect in the successful treatment. Based on a research in the University of California, “communication between parents and their baby’s principal medical care provider is important in NICU setting” (Weiss et Goldlust, Vaucher, 1). In addition, effective interaction can reduce both parents’ stress and medical errors, and also it is associated with enhance the quality of treatment; for instance SSC and KMC which are defined as “skin to skin care” and “kangaroo mother care”, are kind of communication that increase binding among mothers and
These past couple of weeks working on the Mother Baby Care Unit have provided me with many opportunities to reflect on the care that I have be able to provide to each of my patients. In particular, one encounter that I found myself deeply reflecting on involved a situation in which I was assisting a patient who was struggling to breastfeed her daughter. For confidentiality purposes, this patient will be referred to as Rosie and her daughter will be referred to as Emily.
After the delivery, the heat from the mom’s body can warm the baby and maintains the baby’s body temperature. For instance, when nursing students were at the operating room at Saint Peter’s Hospital during the C-section delivery, as soon as the baby was out, the doctor placed the newborn on the mother’s chest. When the mother was alert and awake during the C-section made it possible for the baby to stay on her chest on the first hours after the birth. It was one of the most beautiful moments in life. Nevertheless, there was another C-section birth of diabetic mother. She was not fully awake during the C-section and the doctor only did not promote skin-to-skin mother and the newborn. The doctors and nurses at Saint Peter’s Hospital support and encourage skin-to-skin for mother and newborn right after the birth if there is no complication on mother or baby or when the condition is possible. Saint Peter’s Hospital has policy for vaginal delivery, “all infants that meet the criteria for initiate skin-to-skin care shall have skin-to-skin care implemented as the standard of care immediately after birth and as needed thereafter regardless of feeding preference”. They promote skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby immediately after delivery. However, mothers and babies have a physiologic need to be together during the minutes, hours, and days following birth, and this time together significantly improves maternal and newborn outcomes.