High-risk infants: the need for nursing follow-up.
The goal of perinatal care can no longer focus only on the medical management of mother and infant, but instead must take a more global approach and focus on the entire family. One aspect of family care is to provide comprehensive nursing follow-up to the high-risk family at the time of the mother's and infant's discharge. To meet this need, a program was developed to educate all interested community nurses to the specific needs of the high-risk family. Evaluation indicates that the program helped nurses to provide consistent comprehensive care to these families, who were very grateful for home visits by a community nurse.
D000359:Aftercare; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education; D003191:Comprehensive Health Care; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000451:nursing*; D010351:Patient Discharge