Impact of the mother –nurse partnership programme on mother and infant outcomes in paediatric cardiac intensive care unit

To identify the effects of a mother –nurse partnership programme based on the core components of information sharing, negotiation and participation in care. Specifically, we examined the programme’s effects on parental satisfaction, parental self-efficacy, perceived partnership and anxiety, as well as infants’ time to reach full oral feeding and length of postoperative hospital stay, following cardiac surgery on infants at a paediatric intensive care unit with a restrictive visiting policy.
Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research