[Developmental care. Support care for the development of premature infants].
Developmental Care focuses on care methods whose purpose are to reduce the stress factors which affect premature infants by means of modifying the environment and the direct treatment style during their hospitalization in Neonatal Intensive Care Units. This program calls for use of a strategy favorable to those conditions which foment healthy growth and development. The author describes the characteristics of this program and the theoretical bases which underlie it, and the author points out specific nursing interventions which reflect this manner of dealing with the treatment of premature babies.
D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000254:growth & development; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards