Assessment of the Nurses’ Role toward Nutritional Therapy for High Risk Neonates

Abstract

Nutritional therapy is important to support the high-risk neonate’s ongoing metabolic and energy needs, prevent catabolism of protein stores for energy, replenish or establish glycogen and fat stores, and promote growth and neurodevelopmental outcome. As well, to meet neonates' nutritional needs through enteral nutritional therapy or parenteral nutrition to promote growth at rates comparable to good newborns of comparable age neonates (Miller et al., 2013) The study aims to assess the nurses' role toward nutritional therapy for high-risk neonates through assessing nurses' knowledge, attitude and practice regarding nutritional therapy for high-risk neonates. The subjects and methods of the current study discussed under the following four (4) designs: I. Technical design II. Operational design III. Administrative design III. Statistical design

I. Technical design The technical design included the research design, study setting, subjects and tools of data collection.