Neonatal intensive care nursing

Even the specially formed NICUs improve the prognosis of the prematüre and diseased newboıns,they are foreign environments that are full of stimulators for the prematüre and diased newborns that have been seperated their physiological environments earlier. Tecnological instruments and interventions performed in this environment make the adaptation eforts of the infant to his/her new life hard, and darken his/her life with chaos and suffer. The long-term etfects of such situation caııse the infanl lo appear motor.sensorial and other developmental problems. "Individualized Developmental Care" which involves communication with the infant,assesment of the infant and plannig the care of the infani forms the key of the success in NICU.The approach of İndividualized Developmental care needs the continual and harmonious working of not only the nurses but also ali the members of the medical team. Our basic goal in NICU is to provide the behavioral and developmental organization of newborn and gradually make the care given less required,and to transfer such task to the owners having the rigts mostly that is to say to the parents.