Nurses’ Practices in Response to Preterm Infant Cues During Daily Care
Keywords:
Nurses’ Practices, Response to Infant Cues, Preterm, Daily CareAbstract
Preterm infants admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit should receive appropriate nursing care according to principle of developmental care for preterm infants. Nurses should be able to assess preterm infant cues and respond appropriately nursing activities for infants to console themselves to stability. This study aims to survey practices of nurses in response to preterm infant cues during daily care. A purposive sample was ten nurses working in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or Nursery Unit. Instrument was the observation form of nurses’ practices in response to preterm infant cues during daily care. Data was analyzed using percentages of the nursing practices.
It was found that two nursing activities providing daily care were taking vital signs such and body cleaning. Nurse responded to the preterm infant cues obviously in two subsystems, autonomic and motor subsystems. Most nurses responded by stopping the nursing activities to infants’ physiological cues; changing heart rate and oxygen saturation less than 88 %. Most nurses responded by swaddling and facilitated tucking to motor cues included arms, legs, and body over stretched or flexed; back arched; body twisted; face covered; finger sprayed; fist clenched; grimace; twitched; and fuzzy. The results of this study can be information for enhancing nurse’s understanding and concerns regarding response to preterm infant cues during daily care.
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