Parents and staff’s perception toward the semi single-family room-NICU

Abstract

 It has been reported that Family-Centered care is important for better neurodevelopmental outcome of NICU babies. Single-family room-NICU is recommended for family to be involved in developmental care of the NICU babies. We optimized NICU design from Open-bay design to semi single-family room-NICU. A questionnaire survey was conducted to clarify the staff’s and parent’s perception due to the environmental change of NICU design, and to research the benefits and risks. As a result, both of staffs and parents answered that parents can stay more comfortably in NICU. They were satisfied the heights of wall, and the breadth per patient. There is a difficulty of observation because of the decreased patient visibility and greater distances between patients. We recommended that closed observation should be required.