Comprehensive mapping of NICU developmental care nursing interventions and related sensitive outcome indicators: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Neurodevelopmental outcomes of preterm infant are still a contemporary concern. To counter the detrimental effects resulting from the hospitalisation in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), developmental care (DC) interventions have emerged as a philosophy of care aimed at protecting and enhancing preterm infant's development and promoting parental outcomes. In the past two decades, many authors have suggested DC models, core measures, practice guidelines and standards of care but outlined different groupings of interventions rather than specific interventions that can be used in NICU clinical practice. Moreover, as these DC interventions are mostly implemented by neonatal nurses, it would be strategic and valuable to identify specific outcome indicators to make vi

SUBMITTER: Heon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8808373 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature