Parents' experiences of their premature infants' transportation from a university hospital NICU to the NICU at two local hospitals.

J Pediatr Nurs

Department of Nursing, Gjøvik University College, Norway, and Department of Palliative Research Centre, Ersta Sköndal University College and Ersta Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address:

Published: April 2016

The aim of this study was to describe how the parents of premature infants experience the transportation of their baby from the neonatal intensive care unit at a university hospital (NICU-U) to such a unit at a local hospital (NICU-L). This descriptive qualitative study comprises interviews with nine sets of parents and two mothers. The qualitative content analysis resulted in one theme: living in uncertainty about whether the baby will survive, and three categories: being distanced from the baby; fearing that something would happen to the baby during transportation; and experiencing closeness to the baby. The results also revealed that the parents experienced developmental, situational and health-illness transitions.

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