Impact of a nurse education programme on oral feeding in a neonatal unit.

Background: Premature neonates often experience feeding difficulties during their hospital stay, and evidence-based interventions have been shown to improve feeding outcomes.

Aim: This study investigated whether an infant-cue based nurse educational feeding bundle accelerates the achievement of independent oral feeding in neonates in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Study Design: A quality improvement study with a pre, during and post intervention test design.

Effectiveness of a nurse educational oral feeding programme on feeding outcomes in neonates: protocol for an interrupted time series design.

Introduction: Oral feeding is a complex physiological process. Several scales have been developed to assess the ability of the neonate to begin suck feedings and assist caregivers in determining feeding advancement. However, feeding premature neonates remains an ongoing challenge and depends above all on caregivers' feeding expertise.

[The role of hospital care partners in supporting breastfeeding].

Mothers who breastfeed their babies hospitalised in neonatology or neonatal intensive care units need to be supported to enable them to fulfill the mission which is so important to them. The support of a multi-disciplinary team comprising in particular a dietician, a speech therapist and a lactation consultant is an advantage not only for the mothers but also for the nursing staff.

[The Nidcap, care centred on the newborn].

The Nidcap (Newborn individualised developmental care and assessment programme) sets out a well-thought-out framework of care centred on the infant. Body temperature, nutritional and hormonal regulation is close to that observed in utero and individual stimulation is adapted to the cerebral capacities of the newborn. It thereby favours the harmonious development of the infant.