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Abstract
Objective: Hidalgo County, Texas, located on the U.S.-Mexico border, is home to over 850 000 residents. Approximately 90% are Hispanic and 25% are foreign-born. Located here is the 65-bed level III neonatal intensive care unit at Doctor's Hospital at Renaissance. This study aims to describe aspects of this unit that are unique and may have contributed to its success in serving a high-risk population.
Study design: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a variety of providers. The interviews were transcribed and qualitatively coded, and emergent themes were analyzed.
Results: Thirty-four providers consisting of twenty nurses, three physicians, and eleven others participated. Emergent themes included the perceived importance of language and cultural concordance between patient families and providers and staff consistency.
Conclusion: The non-clinical features of this unit reported on by its providers are deserving of additional research that clarifies their clinical effects and replicability at other institutions serving similar populations.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Perinatology provides members of the perinatal/neonatal healthcare team with original information pertinent to improving maternal/fetal and neonatal care. We publish peer-reviewed clinical research articles, state-of-the art reviews, comments, quality improvement reports, and letters to the editor. Articles published in the Journal of Perinatology embrace the full scope of the specialty, including clinical, professional, political, administrative and educational aspects. The Journal also explores legal and ethical issues, neonatal technology and product development.
The Journal’s audience includes all those that participate in perinatal/neonatal care, including, but not limited to neonatologists, perinatologists, perinatal epidemiologists, pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists, surgeons, neonatal and perinatal nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, social workers, dieticians, speech and hearing experts, other allied health professionals, as well as subspecialists who participate in patient care including radiologists, laboratory medicine and pathologists.