Foreldre i nyfødtintensivenheter rapporterer om god oppfølging fra kontaktsykepleiere og leger samt betydelig mestringstro etter utskrivelse. Samtidig bør foreldre-veiledningen styrkes på noen områder.

It is challenging to treat children in a general intensive care unit intended for adults. Good training, good cooperation, and fulfilling children’s needs are valuable measures.

Course participants learn to shift their attention from disease to health, from a critical to an accepting attitude about themselves, and from despair to hope and belief in their own ability to cope.

Guidelines that were not regarded as professionally sound, logical and relevant or in keeping with one’s own clinical experiences or feelings were more difficult to follow.