title: Minimal handling protocol for the intensive care nursery.
abstract: Use of a conceptual model of nursing for the minimal handling protocol provides organization and a theoretical basis for nursing care standards. Levine's principles of conservation of energy, structural integrity, personal integrity, and social integrity provide a concrete approach for making nursing care judgments. Through individualized adaptation and implementation of the minimal handling protocol, neonatal intensive care nurses will be able to deliver high-quality therapeutic and supportive care in the least stressful and most protective manner possible to high-risk infants.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Langer
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D006234:Handling, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008297:Male; D016294:Models, Nursing; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000451:nursing*