Rooming-in Care Implementation: difficulties faced through the perspective of a nursing staff
Journal Title: Revista Eletronica de Enfermagem - Year 2010, Vol 12, Issue 4
Abstract
Rooming-in Care (RIC) is a hospital stay system where mother and healthy newborn remain together for 24 hours. This descriptive and analytical study of qualitative approach, tried to identify through the perspective of the nursing staff, the difficulties in implementing the Rooming-in Care in a maternity upstate São Paulo, Brazil, and examine if the system complies with the basic standards for RIC, advocated by the Ministry of Health. The data was collected in 2008 through semi-structured interview, free observation, and subjected to analysis of content, thematic. Four themes emerged: RIC - relationship and care space; difficulties for the nursing team in caring for mothers; limiting working conditions for the development of nursing activities and infrastructure of RIC -material, physical and human resources. The results showed that the biggest difficulties of nursing professionals involved in performing its functions due to inadequate infrastructure, reduction of human and materials resources and the educational and technical process while instructing the mothers, especially for breastfeeding and stump cord care. It was concluded that RIC needs to be revised considering the recommendations arising from the Ministry of Health.
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Ana Carolina de Faria, Luciana Magalhães, Sonia Regina Zerbetto
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