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Neonatal Developmental Care Makes Sense: Implementation Of An Evidence-Based Guideline For Developmentally Appropriate Multi-Modal Positive Sensory Exposures., Nicole Moseley Jaeger
Neonatal Developmental Care Makes Sense: Implementation Of An Evidence-Based Guideline For Developmentally Appropriate Multi-Modal Positive Sensory Exposures., Nicole Moseley Jaeger
Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers
Background: There is increasing awareness of the contribution of the neonatal intensive care (NICU) environment and the importance of developmental care (DC) interventions to long-term outcomes in high-risk infants. Care at the project site reflected that given at many hospitals, where positive sensory experiences and negative sensory mitigation are done but inconsistently. There was not a guideline in place for DC interventions.
Setting: The project site housed a newly renovated single-family room (SFR) NICU with 12 licensed Level II beds and ability to flex to 19 beds. Neonates at gestational ages ≥28 weeks, requiring critical care for a …