title: Kangaroo holding beyond the NICU.
abstract: The primary goal for maternal-child nurses in caring for parents and their infants is to support parental confidence and competence through education and services to assure optimal parental-infant attachment. Kangaroo holding in the hospital and home environment is one intervention that encourages parental-infant interaction as well as provides the benefits of closeness, proximity, and touch. Nurses in hospitals, private practice, the community, and beyond must work together to change practice by adding the intervention of kangaroo care for the benefit of infants and their families.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, University of Delware, Newark, DE, USA.
authors.forename: Amy Nagorski
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007224:Infant Care / Q000379:methods*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010351:Patient Discharge; D010353:Patient Education as Topic