Neonatal intensive care in the home.
As the trend toward early discharge and home care of medically fragile neonates continues, parents find themselves thrust into a lifestyle for which they are unprepared. They must quickly adjust to a new daily routine and new home environment. They watch as part of their home is transformed into a mini intensive care unit with the kind of high-tech equipment and supplies once exclusively reserved for hospital settings. Parents also must learn to live with limited privacy because home care nurses and other providers become a visible presence and a daily reminder that their lives have been forever altered.
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., USA.
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D000359:Aftercare; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal / Q000379:methods*; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D011181:Postnatal Care