Parents' experiences with neonatal home care following initial care in the neonatal intensive care unit: a phenomenological hermeneutical interview study

Abstract

This study suggests that neonatal home care is experienced as a care structure adjusted to incorporate parents' needs following discharge from a neonatal intensive care unit. Neonatal home care appears to bridge the gap between hospital and home, supporting the family's adaptation to life in the home setting. Parents become empowered to be primary caregivers, having nurse consultants serving the needs of the whole family. Neonatal home care may therefore be understood as the implementation of family-centred care during the transition from NICU to home.

A preterm lifeline: Early discharge programme based on family‐centred care

“…Discharge from hospital to home generally proves to be a difficult transition for parents (Elklit, Hartvig, & Christiansen, ), since it is a learning and adaptation process (Dellenmark‐Blom & Wigert, ; Rayna, Pickler, & Thompson, ). However, EDP is an opportunity to bridge the gap between the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and home (Dellenmark‐Blom & Wigert, ). The interaction between the infant and parents is of significant importance for the infant's development (Talmi & Harmon, ).…”

“…The interaction between the infant and parents is of significant importance for the infant's development (Talmi & Harmon, ). EDP optimises the conditions for parent–infant interaction (Sáenz et al., ) and strengthens parental empowerment and the experience of parenthood since parents can, to a greater extent, carry out primary caregiving on their own terms (Dellenmark‐Blom & Wigert, ). Becoming a “normal” family promotes the link between parents and the premature infant and can help with earlier adjustment to the crisis situation which premature birth can create.…”

Post-discharge symptoms following fast-track colonic cancer surgery: a phenomenological hermeneutic study

“…Several other nurse researchers have applied this method of analysis and subscribe to explicit principles for the analysis (Kouwenhoven et al 2012; Wenstrom et al 2012; Dellenmark-Blom and Wigert 2013). Based on these views, our analysis was performed on three levels: naïve reading, structural analysis, and critical analysis and discussion.…”

”En ny hverdag”. Mødres opplevelse av hverdagen med et prematurt barn, og støtten ved en ressurshelsestasjon

“…Dette støttes av forskning som viser at overgangen mellom sykehus og hjem er en stressende periode for foreldrene, da de for første gang skal stå med det fulle ansvaret for det premature barnet alene (Bakewell-Sachs & Gennaro, 2004;Mai & Wagner, 2005;Esbjørn et al, 2008;Fasting, 2008;Jones, Rowe, & Becker, 2009;Dellenmark-Blom & Wigert, 2014). Besøk av helsesøster på sykehuset, raskt hjemmebesøk etter utskrivelse og et fleksibelt oppfølgingsprogram fra en ressurshelsestasjon har imidlertid vist seg å kunne gjøre overgangen mindre stressende (Mai & Wagner, 2005;Hammarstrand, Jönsson, & Hallström, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Helseforskning nr.…”