Implementing developmentally supportive family-centered care in the newborn intensive care unit as a quality improvement initiative

J Perinat Neonatal Nurs. 2001 Dec;15(3):58-73. doi: 10.1097/00005237-200112000-00006.

Abstract

Intensive care nursery personnel increasingly seek to practice developmental and family-centered care, but become frustrated when attempting implementation. Reports of effective change strategies for integration to practice are limited. This article presents a summary of one unit's experience using the performance improvement process to move toward a developmentally supportive, family-centered care delivery model. Results to date indicate that a comprehensive quality improvement process guided by a unit-based newborn developmental specialist can provide the framework to achieve the change from traditional, provider-centered, task-directed care to holistic, individualized, relationship-based care.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Benchmarking
  • Child Development*
  • Family Nursing / standards*
  • Family*
  • Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Intensive Care Units, Neonatal / standards*
  • Intensive Care, Neonatal / standards*
  • Models, Nursing
  • Models, Organizational
  • Needs Assessment
  • Neonatal Nursing / standards*
  • Nurse Clinicians / standards
  • Nursing Evaluation Research
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / organization & administration
  • Patient-Centered Care / standards*
  • Program Development / methods*
  • Program Evaluation
  • Quality Indicators, Health Care
  • Social Support*
  • Texas
  • Total Quality Management / organization & administration*