Clinical nurse specialists: creating new programs for neonatal home care

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Home care nursing for special needs infants is a growing field. Researchers have outlined the details of one hospital-affiliated home care program. Home care nurses are specially trained neonatal intensive care nurses that provide individually tailored home visits to special needs infants and their families. The focus of these visits is to evaluate the infant and educate and support the parents. These visits are much cheaper than hospital care and allow the infants to be cared for at home.

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Providing developmentally supportive care in the newborn intensive care unit: an evolving challenge

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A multidisciplinary approach to caring for high-risk newborns based on the synactive theory shows effective and cost-efficient results. Neonatal intensive care units should provide an environment that is individualized, neurobehaviorally supportive, and family-centered. Neonatal care units must encourage collaboration with community intervention providers by including family members on councils and advisory boards.

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Developmentally supportive caregiving and technology in the NICU: isolation or merger of intervention strategies

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Nursing care in neonatal intensive care units requires the integration of advanced technical skills and supportive, family-centered practices. Recent advances in pharmacology, medical technology, and infant physiology have led to the modification of practices within newborn intensive care units and greater parental involvement in developmentally supportive caregiving.

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