Skin to Skin Contact in Nursing

Skin to Skin Contact in treatIntroductionNowadays, separation of mothers from their neonate babies at delivery has become a usual rehearse despite the escalating evidence that this may collect shun effects on the newborn. A growing volume of research supports genuflect to trim linkup between the mother and the newborn in the agile post-delivery period. Skin to scrape tie is defined as placing the naked newborn baby, prone covered across the back with a warm blanket, on the mothers bargon chest instantaneously following birth.A substantial issuing of studies showed that early peel off to fight clutch between the mother and the newborn is beneficial to the newborn. Some of the benefits of hide to hide contact include stabilisation of the newborns body temperature through thermoregulation, regulation of heart rate and regulation of respiratory rate (Wallace Marshal, 2001). Additionally, early skin to skin contact facilitates the initiation of breastfeeding, helps neona tal thermoregulation and promotes maternal-infant bonding (Dabrowski, 2007 Wallace Marshal, 2001). Skin to skin contact may also manipulate colonization of the baby with the mothers own skin flora, for which the child provide cede some resistance (Wallace Marshal, 2001).Despite its aforementioned benefits and despite the UNICEFs Baby accessible best practice campaign which calls for early skin to skin contact, this practice is still not being implemented in the fag out get on in Bahrain. This can be due to lack of stab inhabit nurses knowledge about the benefits of skin to skin contact. Therefore, the purpose of this ask is to appreciate the current knowledge level of boil room nurses about skin to skin contact. The problem statement is what is the perception of labor room nurses towards skin to skin contact between mother and the newborn? The research questions are (1) what do labor room nurses know about skin to skin contact?, (2) what are the factors labor room nurse s identify as barriers to effectuation of skin to skin contact, (3) what are the factors labor room nurses identify as facilitators to implementation of skin to skin contact?Identifying knowledge level of labor room nurses will help in designing and implementing in-service education programs to educate nurses about the importance of skin to skin contact. Additionally, identifying the barriers and facilitators of skin to skin contact will help in designing interventions to decrease the barriers and increase the factors that will facilitate skin to skin contact. Increasing knowledge level of labor room nurses, decreasing the barriers and increasing the factors that facilitate skin to skin contact will help in increased implementation of skin to skin contact in the labor rooms in Bahrain. Conceptual commentary1. Skin to skin contact Placing the naked newborn on the mothers unclothe chest today after birth.2. Knowledge Information about skin to skin contact3. Barriers Factors that decrease the likelihood of implementing skin to skin contact4. Facilitators Factors that encourage the implementation of skin to skin contactOperational commentary1. Skin to skin contact placing the naked newborn baby, on his/her birth covered across the back with a warm blanket, on the mothers publicize chest for at least 15 minutes starting immediately after birth.2. Knowledge the amount of information labor room nurses have about how to implement skin to skin contact and the benefits of skin to skin contact.3. Barriers the factors that prevent labor room nurses from implementing skin to skin contact.4. Facilitators the factors that help labor room nurses to implement skin to skin contact. One limitation of this study was the difficulties we encountered in trying to suitable with the key stakeholders. Their busy schedules prevented them from devoting enough eon to understanding our study. Another limitation was the fact that our class could not meet as frequently as we would have liked. Carrying out as group had several limitations due to other commitments it was difficult to meet frequently.