Mothers’ needs regarding partnerships with nurses during care of infants with congenital heart defects in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit

We investigated mothers’ needs in forming partnerships with nurses based on children’s postoperative recovery in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit. This was a descriptive study using prospective data. Data were collected from 36 mothers enrolled in a mother–nurse partnership program. We inves...

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Published in:Intensive & critical care nursing 2019-10, Vol.54, p.79-87
Main Authors: Uhm, Ju-Yeon, Choi, Mi-Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Babies
Cardiovascular disease
Child care
Congenital
Congenital diseases
Congenital heart disease
Connectedness
Critical care
Families & family life
Female
Heart defects
Heart Defects, Congenital - psychology
Heart Defects, Congenital - therapy
Heart surgery
Humans
Infants
Information needs
Intensive care
Intensive Care Units, Pediatric - organization & administration
Intensive Care Units, Pediatric - statistics & numerical data
Medical prognosis
Mothers
Mothers - psychology
Mothers - statistics & numerical data
Needs Assessment
Nurses
Nurses - psychology
Nurses - statistics & numerical data
Nursing
Nursing Care
Paediatric cardiac intensive care unit
Parents & parenting
Participation
Partnerships
Pediatric nursing
Pediatrics
Postoperative period
Professional-Family Relations
Prospective Studies
Recovery
Republic of Korea
Surgical outcomes
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:We investigated mothers’ needs in forming partnerships with nurses based on children’s postoperative recovery in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit. This was a descriptive study using prospective data. Data were collected from 36 mothers enrolled in a mother–nurse partnership program. We investigated mothers’ need for information and participation activities using a self-made survey tool, as well as the duration of mothers’ care participation and physical engagement and psychological connectedness. The mothers desired information on their infants’ postoperative stability in the early recovery phases and information on infants’ transfer and care in the later phases. Mothers’ mean duration of care participation increased as infants’ recovery progressed (15.82 ± 8.76 minutes in the second phase of recovery to 29.46 ± 4.53 minutes in the fifth phase; F = 19.54, p 
ISSN:0964-3397
1532-4036
DOI:10.1016/j.iccn.2019.07.003