Communication in NICUs (original) (raw)

Journal of biological regulators and homeostatic agents

In a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) counseling should be a shared culture for all the care givers: it should be developed by all the professionals, to face up to parents' needs of information, explanations, facility of decisions, finding of resources, agreement, help, reassurance, attention. The first essential aspect is the training in counseling skills, by periodic courses for all professionals of the department (physicians, nurses, and physiotherapists). In our department, a professional counselor is present, assisting the medical staff in direct counseling. The counselor's intervention allows a better parent orientation in the situation. A more effective sharing of these rules also facilitates the communication among parents and medical staff. Periodic meetings are established among the medical staff, in which the professional counselor discusses difficult situations to share possible communicative strategies. We wanted to have not only a common communicative style,...

www.ssoar.info Dimensions qualifying for communication of difficult news in neonatal intensive care unit

2020

Objective: Understanding the qualifying dimensions for communication of difficult news in the neonatal intensive care unit. Method: Descriptive exploratory study, qualitative, from the thematic analysis. 10 mothers of newborns and 14 professionals were research subjects. Results: The use of strategies in helper/for the communication of difficult news in the NICU were revealed in the speeches of the research participants as facilitators in the process of interaction between professionals, mothers and families, allowing this type of communication, reduce the suffering of those involved, favoring support and support to the mother and family and extend security to overcome difficulties and challenges. Conclusion: The requirement of relational, interpersonal and communication skills in professional, from an expanded care and care that goes beyond the prevalent as technical and technological dimension in intensive care make it necessary perspective. Descriptors: Nursing. Communication. Di...

Health Communication in Neonatal Intensive Care

Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 2017

Background and Purpose: Health communication interventions to successfully promote satisfaction with care among parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are limited. This study investigated strategies for effective health communication in the NICU through focus groups with parents and nurses, and individual interviews with neonatologists. Methods: Eight parents, seventeen nurses, and three neonatologists from one NICU in Genesee County, Michigan participated. Results: Parents expressed a preference for daily, face-to-face communication with the physician. They recommended the use of visual aids to help with understanding infants� conditions. One such aid would be a baby diary to serve as the infant�s daily progress report for the parent to review during the visit. A communication strategy used by nurses was providing parents with the most up-to-date information in an approachable, reassuring manner. Physicians suggested interactive communication practice sessions as strate...

Parental experience of interaction with healthcare professionals during their infant's stay in the neonatal intensive care unit

Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition, 2017

To explore the experiences of parents of infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit towards interaction with healthcare professionals during their infants critical care. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents of critically ill infants admitted to neonatal intensive care and prospectively enrolled in a study of communication in critical care decision making. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and uploaded into NVivo V.10 to manage and facilitate data analysis. Thematic analysis identified themes representing the data. Nineteen interviews conducted with 14 families identified 4 themes: (1) initial impact of admission affecting transition into the neonatal unit; (2) impact of consistency of care, care givers and information giving; (3) impact of communication in facilitating or hindering parental autonomy, trust, parental expectations and interactions; (4) parental perception of respect and humane touches on the neonatal unit. Factors including the context o...

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