INVESTIGATION ON FAMILY NURSING KNOWLEDGE OF PREMATURE INFANT’S
PARENTS
Du ZF
Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
Objects: To evaluate the family nursing knowledge of premature infant’s
parents, in order to help our nurses to strengthen training for them.
Methods: Questionnaire about premature's nursing knowledge
were gaven to the parents of 22 premature infants hospitalized in NICU of
PUMCH from May through December, 2000.
Results: 72.7% of the parents said they knew nothing about
it while 22.7% said they had different extent of this knowledge. 93.1% of
the parents answered that they need nursing knowledge from medical staff
which included: early intelligence training; health care; feeding &
nutrition observation and living care.
Conclusion: This investigation indicated that the
premature infant’s parents are critically short of family nursing
knowledge. They really need this kind of knowledge providing by medical
staff. The results suggested that we should prepare in NICU for parents’
education hand-out. It’s an important work to improve nursing and living
quality of premature infants.