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Abstract
Neonatal period represent a short time of life, where changes are very rapid and many critical events can occur. Noninvasive continuous positive airway pressure (NICPAP) is often used to provide noninvasive respiratory support in neonates with respiratory distress syndrome. Noninvasive CPAP is the application of positive pressure to the airway of spontaneously breathing neonates’ throughout the respiratory cycle, which increases the functional residual capacity (FRC) of the lung and prevent atalactasis.Nursing care for neonates undergoing noninvasive CPAP require understanding how CPAP achieve this effect in order to gain maximum advantage from the technique for providing optimal nursing care for those neonates. The aim of the current study was to assess nursing care for neonates undergoing noninvasive CPAP. One hundred and ten nurses, eighty neonates on noninvasive CPAP were taken from Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) in Ain Shams Maternity Hospital, El-Shohada Hospital and El-Galaa Teaching Hospital. Questionnaire format and observational checklist were the study tools used in collecting data which designed by the researcher after reviewing the current literature to assess nursing care for neonates undergoing noninvasive CPAP. The researcher collected the required data from the first of June (2006) to the end of September (2006). The results of the study revealed that 43.6% of the studied nurses have average knowledge, and 54.5% of them have poor knowledge. Also more than half (50.9%) of nurses done practice related management of neonates on NICPAP incomptent.This study concluded that more than half of nurses have inadequate knowledge and performance regarding care of neonates undergoing NICPAP. According to the results of the current study, the researcher recommended the importance of periodically training programs for nurses regarding care of neonates undergoing noninvasive CPAP.