The Mother Baby Comfort Care Pathway
| Autor: | Beatrice E Lechner, Adam J. Czynski, Michelle Souza |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Palliative care
Neonatal intensive care unit MEDLINE Mothers Quality of life (healthcare) Nursing Pregnancy Multidisciplinary approach Quality time Intensive Care Units Neonatal Humans Medicine Patient Comfort Child business.industry Palliative Care Rooming-in Infant Newborn Infant General Medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Critical Pathways Quality of Life Female business Postpartum period |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Neonatal Care. 22:119-124 |
| ISSN: | 1536-0903 |
| Popis: | Background Traditionally, the provision of comfort care and support during the dying process for infants born with life-limiting diagnoses has occurred in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). A major goal for the families of these infants is often the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with their infant in order to make memories and parent their infant. Purpose The objective of the Mother Baby Comfort Care Pathway is to implement a program of family-centered care with logistically flexible care delivery, allowing mothers and their families to share as normal a postpartum care experience as possible with a focus on quality of life, memory making, and time spent together. Methods The program was developed with the nucleus of care coordination and provision on the Mother Baby Unit (postpartum unit), with involvement from the labor and delivery room, NICU, and other units as necessary to provide the postpartum mother, her dying infant, as well as possible additional siblings (in the case of multiple gestation), postpartum care while rooming-in. The program was rolled out with training workshops for postpartum nurses. Findings Nurses who took part in the workshops and the patient care program rated both highly. Implications for practice The Mother Baby Comfort Care Pathway aims to offer a framework for providing multidisciplinary family-centered comfort care to newborns during the postpartum period in a compassionate, evidence-based, and individualized manner in order to maximize quality time together for families with a dying infant. |
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