Clinical Nursing Practice Guideline for Hypothermia Prevention in Preterm Infants by Using Heat Mattress bag

Abstract

This quasi-experimental research, the control group posttest- only design, aimed to development and study the effect of Clinical Nursing Practice Guideline (CNPGs) for prevention hypothermia in preterm infants by using heat mattress bagat neonatal intensive care unit in KhonKaen hospital. The sample was 50 preterm infants who had gestational age less than 32 weeks or birthweight less than 1,500 gram and  18 registered nurses who used to using CNPGs from January - May 2023.The CNPGs generatedwith the evidence-based research approach. There was a total of 5 academic research publication related to hypothermia prevention in preterm infants by using heat mattress bag.The questionnaires were validity by 5 preterm infants’ experts for accuracy in terms of content, clinical relevance, potential for use in clinical practice and content validity indexes were 0.98.

The result of this study revealed that: The guideline presents: 1) characteristics of preterm infants who fit the criteria of this guidelines, 2) equipment for hypothermia prevention is heat mattress bag, and 3) clinical nursing practice guidelines for hypothermia prevention in preterm infants by using heat mattress bag.The incidence of study revealed that the percentage of hypothermia in preterm infants deceased from 55 to 43 and nurses were satisfied with the clinical nursing practice guideline was 100% at highest level.