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Caring for late preterm infants: public health nurses’ experiences

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Nursing, April 2018
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Title
Caring for late preterm infants: public health nurses’ experiences
Published in
BMC Nursing, April 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12912-018-0286-y
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Genevieve Currie, Aliyah Dosani, Shahirose S. Premji, Sandra M. Reilly, Abhay K. Lodha, Marilyn Young

Abstract

Public health nurses (PHNs) care for and support late preterm infants (LPIs) and their families when they go home from the hospital. PHNs require evidence-informed guidelines to ensure appropriate and consistent care. The objective of this research study is to capture the lived experience of PHNs caring for LPIs in the community as a first step to improving the quality of care for LPIs and support for their parents. To meet our objectives we chose a descriptive phenomenology approach as a method of inquiry. We conducted semi-structured interviews with PHNs (n = 10) to understand PHN perceptions of caring for LPIs and challenges in meeting the needs of families within the community. Interpretative thematic analysis revealed PHN perceptions of caring for LPIs and challenges in meeting the needs of families within the community. Four themes emerged from the data. First, PHNs expressed challenges with meeting the physiological needs of LPIs and gave voice to the resulting strain this causes for parents. Second, nurses conveyed that parents require more anticipatory guidance about the special demands associated with feeding LPIs. Third, PHNs relayed that parents sometimes receive inconsistent advice from different providers. Lastly, PHNs acknowledged that due to lack of resources, families sometimes did not receive the full scope of evidence informed care required by fragile, immature infants. The care of LPIs by PHNs would benefit from more research about the needs of these infants and their families. Efforts to improve quality of care should focus on: evidence-informed guidelines, consistent care pathways, coordination of follow up care and financial resources, to provide physical, emotional, informational support that families require once they leave the hospital. More research on meeting the challenges of caring for LPIs and their families would provide direction for the competencies PHNs require to improve the quality of care in the community.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 83 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 16%
Student > Bachelor 8 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Lecturer 4 5%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 35 42%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 30 36%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 6%
Social Sciences 2 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Computer Science 1 1%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 37 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 22 April 2018.
All research outputs
#7,020,705
of 23,043,346 outputs
Outputs from BMC Nursing
#228
of 760 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#121,997
of 327,287 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Nursing
#6
of 9 outputs
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