AWHONN Convention
 

Sessions

NICU Nurses' Attitudes Regarding Preterm Infant Massage

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Title: NICU Nurses' Attitudes Regarding Preterm Infant Massage

Longhorn Hall D (Gaylord Grapevine)
Malliga Jambulingam, PhD, RN, CEIM , Maternity Nursing, Radians College of Nursing, Ellicott City, MD

Discipline: Neonatal (N), Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  • To understand neonatal nurses’ attitudes regarding the benefits of, concerns with, and nurses’ support for promoting IM for preterm infants in the NICU
  • To identify relationships between demographic variables (age, years in nursing practice, and years in NICU practice) and benefits for infants and parents, concerns, and nurses’ support regarding IM for preterm infants.
  • To identify the differences across demographic groups (ethnicity and education) on the attitudes of NICU nurses regarding IM for preterm infants

    • Submission Description:
    NICU Nurses’ Attitudes Regarding Preterm Infant Massage NICU nurses play a crucial role in facilitating bonding between parents and preterm infants through the provision of touch and massage to provide positive experiences for the mother and infant. An exploratory descriptive research was conducted to explore nurses’ positive and negative attitudes regarding preterm IM. The results affirmed that nurses have strong positive attitudes regarding benefits of and nurses’ support, and very minor negative attitudes regarding concerns with promoting IM in the NICU.

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