Table 1 The contents of the training program
Session | Description |
|---|---|
1 | Defining developmental care and its importance Improving the physical space in the developmental care program including facilities, access routes, corridors, and entrances of the neonatal intensive care unit, specialized hospitalization, and neonatal care space, essential support spaces in the neonatal intensive care unit The effect of excessive sensory stimulation in infants: The importance of adjusting the lighting in the NICU to protect the premature infants’ vision, considerations related to the care of the preterm infant hearing, controlling the noise, the importance of developing the baby’s olfactory and taste senses, the importance of infant tactile sensation, and tips about infant massaging |
2 | Physical-behavioral reactions of premature infants, including behavioral evaluation and control, completing the objective observation sheet, forms for observing and recording infant behavior, identifying infant behaviors, autonomic nervous system behaviors, skin color, movements due to immaturity of the autonomic nervous system, autonomic and visceral systems, neonatal movements, specific movements of limbs, behaviors related to attention and interaction, behaviors showing self-regulatory balance, behaviors indicating neonatal stress |
3 | Characteristics of premature infant sleep-wake-up patterns, including the importance of sleep-wake in preterm infants, diagnosis of premature infant sleep-wake states, types of premature infant sleep-wake states, benefits of sleep in infants, complications of sleep deprivation in infants, factors disrupting premature infant sleep-state, the infant sleep space in NICU, developmental care to support the sleep of premature infants |
4 | Assessing the status of the infant including the importance of supporting the infant’s body and positioning the premature infant, developmental complications due to lack of support and positioning of the premature infant in the NICU, developmental benefits of positioning the preterm infant admitted to the NICU, general principles of premature neonatal positioning in the NICU, the infant’s position during kangaroo care, the principles of lifting and moving the infant NIDCAP program: clustering and symptom-based care Management and control of pain in premature infants: infant response to pain, non-pharmacological care, prescribing medication for pain control, infant pain management protocol (care before the onset of painful procedures, care during painful procedures, care about painful procedures) |
5 | Premature infant nutrition: oral feeding with developmental care approach, developmental care in infant feeding with a gastric tube, infant oral feeding, successful oral sucking, development of swallowing process, significant cases for diagnosing the time of oral feeding, environmental factors affecting infant oral feeding and its continuity, oral feeding patterns based on infant demand, the importance of infant hospitalization space in supporting breastfeeding, non-oral sucking |
6 | Family-centered care and its effects on premature infants: significant ethical issues regarding the infant and parents, success in family-centered care, family-centered care in lien with the mission of the neonatal intensive care unit, guide to social interactions with the family care group, parental education, parental support resources, mother’s residence, and infant visit rules, facilities needed for mothers’ residence |