Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

Title:  Advisory Meeting #2

Label: Presentation

Due Date:  Thursday 2/27 by 8AM

Content:

What is the best way to ensure a premature baby grows healthy? 

Answer #2
To provide good communication between patients and the NICU staff to help influence the decisions parents make for their babies. 

3 details to support the answer

1. When parents feel dissatisfied in the lack of communication with the NICU staff, their stress and existing anxiety increases, finding it more difficult in establishing a close relationship with their baby. 
2. Trust and sense of being known and affirmed helps reduce a parents worries. Communication with the parents should be responsive, open and reflective. 
3. The communication helps meet the emotional needs of a parent, and proves how supportive the NICU is and can be. 

The research source (s) to support your details and answer

Research article: "Strengths and weaknesses of a parent-staff communication in the NICU"

Article from the journal of Perinatology: "Communicating with parents in the NICU" 

Concluding Sentence
Satisfactory communication with the parents and NICU staff is the best way in ensuring a healthy premature baby.