In the first part of the diploma thesis we describe current state of taking care of newborns with special regard to mother's and newborn's needs and to the individual developmental care. We pay attention to the composition of the nursing team and to the conditions for its effective functioning. We cope with the importance of breast milk, breastfeeding and whole-community-based activities supporting breastfeeding. In the chapter about lactation consultancy we look into the history and present day to give a sense of this topic. The aim of the thesis is to make the description of the role of lactation consultant in the multidisciplinary team which takes care of premature newborns. We try to assess contribution of his presence to mothers of newborns and to nurses in the perinatal centres and at the same time to identify the problems lactation consultant are facing. We applied a qualitative research method of semi-structured interview for purpose of the study. We conducted the interviews with mothers of preterm infants, with nurses from the nursing team and with lactation consultants in ÚPMD in Prague and in České Budějovice Hospital. We investigated the rate of integration of lactation consultants into the nursing team within all perinatal centres in the Czech Republic. Lactation consultant provides mothers help with the stimulation of milk production and with the long-lasting breastfeeding maintenance. Lactation consultant supports mothers in breastfeeding and resolves problems related to breastfeeding a premature newborn. This help includes the psychological support. In relation to nurses, lactation consultant takes part in mothers' education in breastfeeding, manages human colostrum and mediates the mother-and-child contact when mother is separated from her baby. Nursing team is enriched with special knowledge and skills of lactation consultant. There were several problems identified: a lack of time for consultancy, the language barrier along with different cultural habits within minorities and the negative influence of layman discussion forums in the internet. Related to collaboration in the nursing team we encountered the problem of poor communication among lactation consultants and other team members. Mothers together with other team members, they all benefit from presence of lactation consultant in the nursing team.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:320736 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | TALAŠOVÁ, Dana |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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