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‘Chatting’: an important clinical tool in facilitating mothering in neonatal nurseries

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Title
‘Chatting’: an important clinical tool in facilitating mothering in neonatal nurseries
Published in
Journal of Advanced Nursing, July 2008
DOI 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01694.x
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Authors

Jennifer Fenwick, Lesley Barclay, Virginia Schmied

Abstract

This paper explores the use of 'chat' or 'social talk' as an important clinical tool that can assist nurses achieve family-centred care in neonatal nurseries. The study was undertaken to increase knowledge of women's experiences of mothering in the neonatal nursery and the relationship they share with nurses. The discussion presented is elicited from a grounded theory analysis of over 60 hours of interview data with 28 women, a thematic analysis of 50 hours of interviews with 20 nurses and a content analysis of 398 tape-recorded interactions between nurses and parents. The analysis identifies the importance of the nurse-mother relationship and demonstrates that it is both the context and method by which nursing care is delivered. We found the verbal exchanges that take place between nurse and mother influence a woman's confidence, her sense of control and her feelings of connection to her infant. It appears from the data that the nurse's ability to effectively 'engage' the mother is dependent on the use of language that expresses care, support and interest in parents. The data suggests that 'chatting' is the strategy and the process through which positive interactions are initiated, maintained and enhanced. This study confirms that nurses' language acts as a powerful clinical tool that can be used to assist parents in gaining confidence in caring for their infants and in becoming 'connected' to infants resident in nurseries.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 56 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 12%
Student > Bachelor 7 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 11%
Researcher 5 9%
Other 14 25%
Unknown 10 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 12 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 19%
Social Sciences 7 12%
Psychology 4 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 4%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 14 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 March 2019.
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#8,224,240
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#2,947
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#30,933
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Advanced Nursing
#23
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