Enhancement of Nurses Performance toward Developmental Supportive Care as Nesting and Swaddling Technique for Premature Infant.

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Enhancement of Nurses Performance toward Developmental Supportive Care as Nesting and Swaddling Technique for Premature Infant Fatma Mohamed Mohamed(1) , Tanazor Hemdan Abdelhamed(2) (1) Ass.professor of pediatric nursing, Faculty of nursing Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (2) Lecturer of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Modern University of Technology & Information (MTI), Cairo, Egypt tanazor.morsi@nur.mti.edu.eg Abstract

Objective: To determine the influence of an educational program on nurses' performance in relation to developmental supportive care techniques such as nesting and swaddling for preterm infants. Design: A quasi-experimental research design . Setting: Research was conducted at Ain Shams University Hospitals' Pediatric Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). These included the Pediatric Neonatal Intensive Care Units in pediatric children's hospitals and obstetric hospitals. Subject: Research involved a selective sample of 40 nurses who worked in the aforementioned settings. Tools: a structured questionnaire, observational checklists, the clinical assessment sheet for preterm babies, and the semantic differential scale were used to analyze nurses' knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes about nesting and swaddling techniques. Results: Less than two-thirds of the nurses investigated had inadequate total knowledge about nesting and swaddling techniques before the training program's implementation, while the vast majority of them had enough total knowledge after implementation. Additionally, nurses' overall practices improved dramatically after the instructional program's introduction. Additionally, nurses' opinions shifted from negative to favorable opinions after the programs adoption. Conclusion: the educational program resulted in considerable improvements in the examined nurses' knowledge and behaviors, as well as a shift in their attitudes towards the nesting and swaddling techniques utilized in NICUs. Recommendation: there is a favorable association between nurses' overall understanding and practice in terms of nesting and swaddling techniques utilized in NICUs. Through orientation training and ongoing education, nurses' knowledge, practices, and attitudes towards nesting and swaddling techniques used in NICUs will be improved. Keywords: preterm baby, pediatric nurses, developmental, supportive, nesting & swaddling