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M H Jarrett

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Parent Partners: a parent-to-parent support program in the NICU. Part 1: Program development.

Neonatal intensive care units (NICU) face the challenge of developing family-centered systems of service delivery. An important component of family-centered care is parent-to-parent support. A parent-to-parent support program that meets the needs of both parents and staff can be successfully established in the NICU if the principles of planned change are used to guide the process of program development, implementation, and evaluation.

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Parent partners: a parent-to-parent support program in the NICU. Part II: Program implementation.

A well-organized parent-to-parent support program can provide both support and resources to help parents deal with the stress of having a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). In order to implement a support program, hospital personnel must commit to the program, volunteer parents must be recruited and trained, and ongoing parent-professional collaboration must support program growth and maintenance. The Parent Partners Program offers a parent training curriculum and suggested procedures to establish a program.

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