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Enhancing Therapeutic Alliances In Neonatal Care: Parents With Substance Use Disorders, Shannon A. Starkey
Enhancing Therapeutic Alliances In Neonatal Care: Parents With Substance Use Disorders, Shannon A. Starkey
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Background: The number of newborns exposed to opiates quadrupled in the United States from 1999 to 2014, from 1.5 per 1,000 hospital deliveries to 6.5 per 1,000. Many of these babies are admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit for neonatal abstinence withdrawal syndrome. While neonatal nurses are trained to care for babies exposed to substances in utero, they often struggle to meet the unique psychosocial needs of the babies’ parents. Negative attitudes and strained interactions between neonatal nurses and families with substance use disorders (SUDs) result in subtherapeutic alliances and suboptimal outcomes in neonatal nurseries. Purpose: Educational …