[Explanation] In the public impression, once a sick newborn is admitted to the neonatal ward, it means separation from its parents.
Only during the short visit time every day, parents can look at their children from a distance... In mid-April, a family-oriented ward for newborns was put into use in Chengdu. Parents can accompany the newborn children 24 hours a day, and bid farewell to the "suffering of separation".
In a neonatal family ward of Chengdu Women and Children's Central Hospital, Ms. Chen and her husband are taking care of a baby less than one month old in the incubator.
She told reporters that the baby suffered from neonatal pneumonia a few days ago. She thought she had to be separated from the baby for a period of time. She did not expect that the family ward of the hospital would allow her to stay with her husband to accompany her to understand the changes in the baby's condition and let her Anxiety is much lessened.
【Concurrent】Ms. Chen, mother of newborns
It is best for parents to accompany children. The family ward is convenient for our parents. We can observe the changes of the baby's condition every day. We can observe how the baby eats and sleeps every day.
[Explanation] Ju Rong, director of the neonatology department of Chengdu Women and Children's Central Hospital, told reporters that the neonatal family ward makes the parents of newborns no longer anxious about separation. At the same time, parents can also receive basic newborn care, early identification of abnormalities, Professional care training such as simple handling in emergency situations allows parents to better and more professionally participate in the care of their babies.
Julong said that after completing such a hospitalization, the parents of the newborn have undergone a "training assessment", which is conducive to extending professional neonatal nursing services from the hospital to the family, and can further reduce the readmission rate of premature infants after discharge. Promote the healthy growth of newborns.
[Concurrent] Ju Rong, Director of the Department of Neonatology, Chengdu Women and Children's Central Hospital
The main purpose of the neonatal family ward is to allow parents to participate in some of the child's care and treatment, and its benefits are very many.
First of all, it can reduce parental anxiety for the family.
At the same time, we will also teach him(them) how to bathe, change diapers, how to breastfeed, and if some children vomit, we will teach them some first aids. Say it's especially important.
After a series of training, those parents can manage their children better, so that after these premature (children) are discharged from the hospital, if they (they) go back to take care of them badly, he (children) will be re-hospitalized again.
[Explanation] Ju Rong introduced that the neonatal family ward and family participatory care are a care model based on respecting the newborn family and maintaining an equal relationship between medical care and the baby and its parents. It is the development of the biological-physiological-social medical model. inevitable trend.
This model has been widely carried out in the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries in recent years, and there are currently few in China.
The neonatal family ward put into use in Chengdu this time is also the first batch in Sichuan.
In Julong's view, the neonatal family ward encourages family members to actively participate in clinical care work, which is also the development trend of China's neonatology in the future.
[Concurrent] Ju Rong, Director of the Department of Neonatology, Chengdu Women and Children's Central Hospital
The family ward we have now established is actually a hospital that integrates some resources from our multiple disciplines. For example, if he (they) live here, all the treatment the child needs will not be affected.
At the same time, if the mother needs some treatment, for example, the mother needs postpartum rehabilitation, then the obstetrics, gynecology, breast, and traditional Chinese medicine departments of our hospital can all intervene, which is equivalent to a "one-stop service".
Ho Meikun reports from Chengdu, Sichuan
Responsible editor: [Wang Kai]