Counselling skills to improve Nursing Relational System within the NICU.
The relationships amongst healthcare providers, as well as between these and the patients/families they care for, are currently experiencing profound changes in Italian hospitals, and--more generally--in the whole Italian health system, thus reproducing similar changes concomitantly occurring in most Western countries. A growing body of evidence suggests that nurses play a central role in the proper development of a healthy and transparent communication between caregivers and patients/families in all neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). This article discusses the current knowledge in this area, and provides further evidence supporting the introduction in all NICUs of specific educational and training tools for nurses in order to promote the use of counselling skills. The implementation of specific counselling skills can improve the Nursing Relational System within the NICU, ultimately helping in better addressing the parental relational needs in the NICU.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, F Miulli Hospital, Acquaviva delle Fonti, BA, Italy. cpannacciulli@libero.it
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D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003376:Counseling; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000193:education*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations