Hernández-Herrera DE, Flores-Hernández S

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 125-129
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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to evaluated the impact of an educational strategy for pediatrics nurses focused on the relationships of help in order to decrease anxiety in parentes with new-borns in the NICU.
Material and methods: The educational strategy consisted in a five days workshop with one hour/day (for group discussion and bibliographical research). For consultant's office we did 3 advices at least for each nurses, with half-hour in the parents visit to the NICU.
Results: The help and support given by the nurses to parents with hospitalised children in NICU before and after the operation was different in communication empathy and solidarity (p‹0.001) the rate of anxious parents was lower after the operation directed to the nurses. The high level of anxiety before and after the operation was of 30% (before) and 8% (after).
Conlusions: When the nurses adopts a warmth and respectful attitude and when she is comprensive and emphatic, she gives a better care and she manages to decrease situational anxiety in parents with new-borns hospitalised in the NICU. It is necessary to implement strategies directed to the health staff in order to give support with kids in a high risk.

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