Effect of Care Package on Duration of Stay and Physiological Parameters in Non-invasive Mechanical Ventilation

Temporary tachypnea of the newborn can be improved with minimal respiratory support and nursing care given to babies within the first 72 hours of life. Nursing care practices; It includes pain management, aspiration, moistening and warming of the airways, skin care, nutrition, body temperature regulation, positioning and chest physiotherapy practices. Physiotherapy practices, when applied in accordance with the criteria, can reduce the newborn's respiratory problems and shorten the hospital stay. Although it has been reported that chest physiotherapy practices have a clinically positive effect on newborns, studies in this field are insufficient. Nowadays, the concept of care package is frequently used, especially in areas where nursing care is very important, such as intensive care. Implementation of care packages in patient care increases the quality of care by ensuring standardization in the clinic. It also contributes to observing improvements in health practices. The positive results of the use of care packages in their application areas and the lack of care package application in babies monitored with temporary tachypnea of the newborn when the literature was scanned have led to the necessity of conducting studies in this field. The study was planned as a semi-experimental (non-randomized) control group study to examine the effect of the care package applied to babies monitored with temporary tachypnea of the newborn in the neonatal intensive care unit on the duration of stay in noninvasive mechanical ventilation and physiological parameters.