Identifying nursing practices that facilitate Mother-Premature Baby Bond in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Ayisibea, Patience; Kwakyewaa-Bosompem, Sarah (2020)
Ayisibea, Patience
Kwakyewaa-Bosompem, Sarah
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020111522912
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020111522912
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The existence of a strong loving bond between a newly born infant and their mother is essential for the social, cognitive, and emotional development of the infant. Mothers who give birth to premature babies often have their babies separated from them as they receive specialized treatment at the NICU. This separation stops opportunities for mother-infant bonding and places mothers in psychological distress and uncertainty in which nurses play a vital role in the NICU and possess the ability to facilitate mother-infant bonding at the NICU. The aim of this study is to identify the nursing care practices and interventions that nurses can adopt to facilitate and support the bonding of mothers and their premature infants at the NICU and to help answer, what are the nursing care practices and interventions that nurses can adopt to facilitate the bonding of mothers and their premature infants at the Neonatal In-tensive Care Unit (NICU)?
The Theory of Human Caring by Dr Jean Watson is used as the theoretical framework and the study is a descriptive literature review which utilised inductive thematic analysis.
The findings revealed common themes that were found and summarized into two major themes and then divided into subthemes. The findings revealed that nurses can promote the mother-infant interaction and mother-nurse interaction to facilitate the bond between the mother-premature infant. The promotion of mother-infant interaction provides opportunities for physical contact, provides opportunities for remote monitoring, and opportunities for mothers’ participation in routine care. The mother-nurse interaction shows nurses need to communicate consistently, offer assurance, empathetic treatment, and exhibit trustworthiness to the parents at the NICU. The study finally points that, the NICU nurse possesses the power to either promote or hinder the bonding process. Because there is evidence that early mother-infant bonding is essential for an infant’s neurological development process, nurses should take the role of facilitating the attachment process from birth seriously.
The Theory of Human Caring by Dr Jean Watson is used as the theoretical framework and the study is a descriptive literature review which utilised inductive thematic analysis.
The findings revealed common themes that were found and summarized into two major themes and then divided into subthemes. The findings revealed that nurses can promote the mother-infant interaction and mother-nurse interaction to facilitate the bond between the mother-premature infant. The promotion of mother-infant interaction provides opportunities for physical contact, provides opportunities for remote monitoring, and opportunities for mothers’ participation in routine care. The mother-nurse interaction shows nurses need to communicate consistently, offer assurance, empathetic treatment, and exhibit trustworthiness to the parents at the NICU. The study finally points that, the NICU nurse possesses the power to either promote or hinder the bonding process. Because there is evidence that early mother-infant bonding is essential for an infant’s neurological development process, nurses should take the role of facilitating the attachment process from birth seriously.