This document summarizes a project by Kangaroo Me Too, Inc. to demonstrate and teach kangaroo care to nurses and doctors in Texas hospitals. Kangaroo care involves skin-to-skin contact between premature or low birth weight babies and parents, usually mothers. The project aims to explain the importance of kangaroo care and its benefits to expecting mothers and families. Currently, kangaroo care is only used in some hospitals and not enough information is provided to new parents and premature babies. The project team, led by Raven Pinnick, will organize meetings, research audience needs, demonstrate kangaroo care processes, and present statistics on its health benefits in order to promote wider adoption of
This document summarizes a project by Kangaroo Me Too, Inc. to demonstrate and teach kangaroo care to nurses and doctors in Texas hospitals. Kangaroo care involves skin-to-skin contact between premature or low birth weight babies and parents, usually mothers. The project aims to explain the importance of kangaroo care and its benefits to expecting mothers and families. Currently, kangaroo care is only used in some hospitals and not enough information is provided to new parents and premature babies. The project team, led by Raven Pinnick, will organize meetings, research audience needs, demonstrate kangaroo care processes, and present statistics on its health benefits in order to promote wider adoption of
This document summarizes a project by Kangaroo Me Too, Inc. to demonstrate and teach kangaroo care to nurses and doctors in Texas hospitals. Kangaroo care involves skin-to-skin contact between premature or low birth weight babies and parents, usually mothers. The project aims to explain the importance of kangaroo care and its benefits to expecting mothers and families. Currently, kangaroo care is only used in some hospitals and not enough information is provided to new parents and premature babies. The project team, led by Raven Pinnick, will organize meetings, research audience needs, demonstrate kangaroo care processes, and present statistics on its health benefits in order to promote wider adoption of
Project Manager RESEARCH ANALYST PROJECT MATERIALS COORDINATOR Organize research based on Organize meetings, oversee audience needs, create the front Keep contact information, project, communicates to matter of the report, give all keep notes, retrieve all kept the project materials details and report to the project information, help research, coordinator, writes progress materials coordinator, report create the back matter, and reports, and report any any difficulties to the project report any difficulties to the difficulties to the instructor. manager, research how why project manager. opponents may object to the group’s recommendation. PURPOSE •To be able to demonstrate skin to skin care to all nurses and doctors in Texas hospitals •Explain the importance of the benefits to expecting mothers and families PROBLEM • Kangaroo care is only being used in certain hospitals • Not enough information and knowledge is being taught to new parents • Premature and NICU babies aren’t reaping the benefits of skin to skin WHAT IS KANGAROO CARE?
Skin to Skin
Kangaroo care or It is most commonly used
kangaroo mother care for low birth-weight (KMC), sometimes called preterm babies, who are skin-to-skin care, is a more likely to suffer from technique of newborn care hypothermia while admitted where babies are kept to a neonatal unit to keep skin-to-skin with a parent, the baby warm and support typically their mother. early breastfeeding. Process and Demonstrations for Kangaroo Care BENEFITS Healthy Baby, Healthy Life