Effect of a Uniform Educational Feeding Program on Nurses' Comfort Levels Feeding Infants

Purpose: Infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) differ in gestational age, medical stability, and oral-motor feeding coordination. It is essential for infant safety that all NICU nurses feel comfortable feeding not only full-term health infants (FHI), but also preterm infants transitioning to oral feeds (PITO) and infants with feeding problems (IFP). It is unclear to what extent nurses feel …