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- Nesting and positioning are crucial nursing skills for the developmental care of premature infants, helping to ensure their comfort and monitor vital signs.
- The project aimed to enhance nursing staff's knowledge and skills in these areas through tools, demonstration videos, and modified education programs for new nurses.
- Post-project results showed significant improvements in both nurse cognition (from 58.3% to 92.3%) and technique usage (from 63.3% to 91.4%), indicating successful standardization and enhancement of care quality for premature infants.
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Background & Problems: Nesting and positioning is a common nursing skill used in the developmental care of premature infants. This skill maintains premature infants in a comfortable position, facilitates the monitoring of stable vital signs, and enables spontaneous motor activity for normal neuromuscular and skeletal joint function.
Purpose: This project was designed to improve nursing staff cognition and skills regarding nesting and positioning for premature infants in the NICU.
Resolutions: Strategies used in this project were: develop an infant position assessment tool; record a demonstration video about nesting and positioning skills to provide learning efficacy among the nursing staff; and modify an education program for new nurses.
Results: After implementation, nurse cognition regarding premature infant nesting and positioning increased from 58.3% to 92.3%. The rate of correct technique use similarly rose from 63.3% to 91.4%.
Conclusions: This is a valid intervention for improving the correctness of nesting and positioning in nursing care. This project standardized education in terms of nesting and positioning practice goals and enhanced quality care for premature infants.
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