Developmental Focused Neonatal Care: NIDCA Method

Identifier:  TFG:2829

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFG2829

Authors:  Huerta Gisbert, Ana

Abstract:
SUMMARY Introduction: premature newborn babies, due to their immature organs and systems, have a high risk of affectation on their neurodevelopment. The establishment of the method NIDCAP by means of the development of centred care measures (DCC), which are individualised and adapted to their own necessities and which help to prevent the complications inner to prematurity in the short, medium and long term. These DCC, are the responsibility of nursing for the most part, and it requires specific training to accomplish together with the parents in order to integrate them, being the cornerstone in their care measures. Objective: to determine the effectiveness of introducing the exemplary NIDCAP in the NICUs Methodology: A documentary and descriptive study, by means of a systematic bibliographic revision in the database of the Health Sciences. Results: taking into account the 17 observed articles, 36% shows that the implementation of the method NIDCAP increases the degree of satisfaction of the parents and professionals, 22% shows that the professionals need training for the correct implementation, 14% shows that the implementation of this method reduces the stress and protects the brain development, another 14% shows that its implementation reduces the stay and hospital cost and lastly, 2 with 7% reasserts that the implementation of the method NIDCAP and their corresponding DCC empower the parents and this implies an improvement in the structure and in the brain function of the newborn babies Conclusion: the benefits for the newborn babies, their parents and the professional team involved in the process, represent a great development in the comprehensive care of the premature newborn babies. Thus, the application of these DCC and the method NIDACP has a positive impact on the neurobiological level of the the newborn babies and on their different life stages (childhood, adolescence and adulthood). Furthermore, due to their difficulty and complexity when implementing them correctly, because of the different changes which take place in the unit and for the professional team, nursing assumes the unavoidable responsibility to guarantee the quality of the humanised and individualised cares in the premature newborn baby Keywords: Newborn babies, Neonate, Development care, Evaluation Programme, NIDCAP and Nursing