Assessment of Quality Nursing Intervention to Neonates with Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

Abstract

aring for the neonate connected to NCPAP is a challenge and respiratory support is vital care in first few hours of neonatal life. Consequences of respiratory support are still major issues, morbidities such as BPD, oxygen toxicity and associated injuries of preterm neonate need a great avoidance by focusing on providing respiratory support for survival with minimal complications and utilization from quality improvement programs at NICU (Islam et al., 2015). Nurses are the principal caregiver within health care institutions, quality of nursing care requires having the basic knowledge, practices related to NCPAP and skills of accurate assessment, feeding, positioning and developmental care of neonates on NCPAP to achieve an optimum utilization with minimal complications (Hanin et al., 2015). Aim of the study: This study aimed to assess the quality of nursing interventions to neonates with nasal continuous positive airway pressure through the following hypothesis: Research question: 1- Was there an association between the characteristics of neonatal nurses and their NCPAP practice?