International Connections: Transition From Hospital to Home: Post-Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge: A Global Perspective

摘要

Our world is shrinking due to computerized linkages and the mobility of society. Information is shared rapidly around the world. Issues surrounding newborn and infant nursing are global. In efforts to acknowledge the international community, each Newborn and Infant Nursing Review issue will feature a column that highlights care-related issues from a featured country or region of the world. To review issues occurring in different areas of the world, a different area of the global will be featured that addresses the Newborn and Infant Nursing Review's theme-oriented topic. This month the column presents a global view including the United States on the topic of transition from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to home and the postdischarge needs of the infant and family. Our guest author is Ms Marina Boykova, PhD(c), MSc, RN, doctoral student from the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing, Oklahoma City, OK, and a neonatal nurse from Saint Petersburg, Russia.