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When Nurses Compete with Parents

When Nurses Compete with Parents WHEN JVURSEJ COMPETE WITH PARENTS by BARBARA L. MARINO PAGE 94 SPRING 1980, VOL. 8, NO. 4 Those of us who choose to work with interest in the infant. In addition, infant newborns and their parents encounter a job- initiated interaction such as gazing or smiling, related hazard in our work. We have learned is very supportive of parental attraction. For the skills in caring for these small clients and often mother of a premature baby, there are fewer feel very protective and nurturant toward them. opportunities for contact, touching and holding At the same time we try to help their parents may be delayed, and the sick infant is less develop their caretaking skills and intuitions. responsive to the mother’s overtures. Adoles- When the infant is born healthy the transition cent parents often have the additional problem from pregnancy to parenthood is smoothed by of parental immaturity. With that comes our intervention. But for the family with a decreased self-confidence and more ambiva- premature or sick newborn the transition is lence about parenthood. Finally, any infant complicated by the baby’s condition, and the whose life is in jeopardy or is anomalous nurses in the high risk unit may http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals Taylor & Francis

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WHEN JVURSEJ COMPETE WITH PARENTS by BARBARA L. MARINO PAGE 94 SPRING 1980, VOL. 8, NO. 4 Those of us who choose to work with interest in the infant. In addition, infant newborns and their parents encounter a job- initiated interaction such as gazing or smiling, related hazard in our work. We have learned is very supportive of parental attraction. For the skills in caring for these small clients and often mother of a premature baby, there are fewer feel very protective and nurturant toward...
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WHEN JVURSEJ COMPETE WITH PARENTS by BARBARA L. MARINO PAGE 94 SPRING 1980, VOL. 8, NO. 4 Those of us who choose to work with interest in the infant. In addition, infant newborns and their parents encounter a job- initiated interaction such as gazing or smiling, related hazard in our work. We have learned is very supportive of parental attraction. For the skills in caring for these small clients and often mother of a premature baby, there are fewer feel very protective and nurturant toward them. opportunities for contact, touching and holding At the same time we try to help their parents may be delayed, and the sick infant is less develop their caretaking skills and intuitions. responsive to the mother’s overtures. Adoles- When the infant is born healthy the transition cent parents often have the additional problem from pregnancy to parenthood is smoothed by of parental immaturity. With that comes our intervention. But for the family with a decreased self-confidence and more ambiva- premature or sick newborn the transition is lence about parenthood. Finally, any infant complicated by the baby’s condition, and the whose life is in jeopardy or is anomalous nurses in the high risk unit may

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Journal of the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1980

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