Conocimiento de los profesionales sobre el programa NIDCAP (cuidado individualizado y evaluación del desarrollo del recién nacido) Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Neonatales del Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga - 2018.

Abstract

Health professionals in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in charge of caring for children, face the challenge of not only ensuring the survival of the newborns (NB), but also of optimizing their development and evolution. The Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP), promotes extrauterine environment impact control. Its main objective is to optimize adaptability, reduce Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) stay, and improve integral development. In recent years, NICU advances in care centered on development have considerably decreased premature and high risk NB mortality rates.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE To measure the level of knowledge that health professionals of the neonatology area of HOSPITAL JOSÉ CARRASCO ARTEAGA have about the NIDCAP program.

METHODOLOGY It is a descriptive study, which evaluated the level of knowledge that health professionals of the neonatology area of HOSPITAL JOSÉ CARRASCO ARTEAGA have about the NIDCAP program, through the application of the “CCD knowledge evaluation questionnaire” used by Dr. Rocío Mosqueda Peña in her doctoral thesis work. The results were analyzed in four statistical percentage and frequency charts, using IBM´s SPSS Statiscs 15 (free version).

RESULTS The results from the study were used exclusively for research purposes and are available at the Library of UNIVERSIDAD DE CUENCA.