Training in family-focused developmental care: bridging the gap between traditional and family-centered care in a neonatal intensive care unit.
An educational program developed to prepare health professionals in a neonatal intensive care unit to initiate family-focused developmental care (FFDC) is described. The program was designed in response to a desire to better support families with preterm infants and to do so in a cost-effective mann...
| Published in: | Infants & Young Children: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Early Childhood Intervention Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 46 - 57 |
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| Format: | care plan tables/charts Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
1997 Oct
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| Summary: | An educational program developed to prepare health professionals in a neonatal intensive care unit to initiate family-focused developmental care (FFDC) is described. The program was designed in response to a desire to better support families with preterm infants and to do so in a cost-effective manner. It served to bridge the gap between a traditional model of care and a family-centered model. Evaluation findings suggest that the program was cost-efficient, prepared nurses to effectively initiate FFDC, and improved maternal self-esteem. |
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