The Complexity of the NICU-to-Home Experience for Adolescent Mothers Journal Articles

abstract

• Quality care for individuals and families during periods of transition is one of the major issues facing health care systems and providers today. The transition-home from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) as experienced by adolescent mothers is poorly understood—placing young mothers and their infants at risk of poor outcomes following NICU discharge. Meleis' Transitions Theory offers a unique theoretical perspective for understanding this transition experience and also serves to highlight the complexity of the NICU-to-home transition for this population of young mothers that is not currently elucidated in the literature.

authors

• Orr, Elizabeth
• Ballantyne, Marilyn
• Gonzalez, Andrea
• Jack, Susan

status

• published 

publication date

• October 2020

has subject area

• 1110 Nursing (FoR)
• Adolescent (MeSH)
• Curriculum (MeSH)
• Education, Nursing, Continuing (MeSH)
• Female (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Infant (MeSH)
• Infant Care (MeSH)
• Infant, Newborn (MeSH)
• Intensive Care, Neonatal (MeSH)
• Mother-Child Relations (MeSH)
• Mothers (MeSH)
• Nursing (Science Metrix)
• Nursing Staff, Hospital (MeSH)
• Nursing Theory (MeSH)
• Patient Discharge (MeSH)
• Transitional Care (MeSH)

published in

• Advances in Nursing Science  Journal

keywords

• Adolescent
• Curriculum
• Education, Nursing, Continuing
• Female
• Humans
• Infant
• Infant Care
• Infant, Newborn
• Intensive Care, Neonatal
• Mother-Child Relations
• Mothers
• Nursing Staff, Hospital
• Nursing Theory
• Patient Discharge
• Transitional Care

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1097/ans.0000000000000299

PubMed ID

• 33136587

start page

• 349

end page

• 359

volume

• 43

issue

• 4