Annually, pregnant women and their children are at a higher risk of developing illnesses and even dying due to pregnancy and delivery difficulties. As a result, there is a need to create preventative, diagnostic, and prompt treatment strategies to address this issue. According to AHWONN and WHO, a healthy newborn infant should be washed at least every two hours and no more than every twenty-four hours. It is preferable, however, to postpone a Healthy Newborn Infant’s wash for its benefit. This QI study aims to boost nurse knowledge and satisfaction via education to break down obstacles and facilitate ISB at a Level II postpartum hospital. The John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model (JHNEBP) was used in the study, a robust problem-solving method for clinical decision-making. Moreover, a purposive and conceptual survey was applied in the study. An evaluation form administered three times during the study was also essential at determining the essence of education to satisfaction levels. It was observed that the following schooling, there was more excellent nursing by the children among the forty mother-infant pairs that completed the study. Furthermore, the youngsters were comfortable and did not scream much. The twenty nurses who answered the poll agreed on the importance of swaddling bathing for children since the moms smiled when the children were given their first wash. Among the forty mother-infant couples hospitalized, the newborn’s hospitalization was likewise kept to a minimum. Thus the study concluded that Swaddle bathing education is a safe and enjoyable method of keeping healthy infants in the newborn nursery. Future studies ought to focus on comprehensive and broader data.
Every year, expecting women and their children are exposed to a greater risk of contracting diseases and even suffering death due to pregnancy- and delivery-related complications. However, there is always a chance to avoid these deaths using better maternity care. Thus, there is the need to develop preventive, diagnostic, and timely therapeutic interventions for this problem (Peahl et al., 2020). Enhancing health professionals and improving knowledge and skills related to maternity care requires research and even better recommendation. The research ought to be based on the conceptualization of the problem and the practicability of the problem, and its translation into the current world. There is a need for a study to enhance the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum period, which may only be achieved through better management and appropriate intervention. Even though there has been appliance of changes that have been adopted in the recent past, several interventions have been considered adequate (Speroni et al., 2020: Taşdemir & Efe, 2019). As it is, the problem does not only concern the newborn or their mother alone. There is a need to expand knowledge to families of pregnant women and even healthcare providers to understand how to care for expecting women and their newborns.
From the perspective of general care and knowledge, this study coins down to bathing the newborn. Bathing of often considered part of standardized care of healthy newborn infants (HNIs). History draws this standardized care from most community-based hospitals CBH), which had initial bathing of newborns within two hours after birth. It was done using a sponge on a heating unit in a bassinet. The units were located in the comfort of the mothers since it was conducted at their bedside. According to Ceylan and Bolւşւk, the initial bathing reduces the chances of transmissible diseases that can be possible through the body fluid and blood contact (Ceylan & Bolւşւk, 2018). Oliveira et al. (2020) confirm the scholars mentioned above’ idea stating that early bathing significantly impacts the extrauterine transition and be stressful for new parents and infants (Oliveira et al., 2020). Thus, this shows that the first bath that a child ever receives impacts his or her perspective of the world.
The evolution of the community-based health facilities to implement the evidence-based practices (EBP) of delayed bathing that aligns with the association of women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AHWONN) and the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines to minimize the morbidity of infants and end the extrauterine transition. The recommendations AHWONN and WHO directs that a healthy Newborn baby needs to be bathed at least after two hours and at most, after twenty-four hours (World Health Organization 2017: 2020). It is preferred, however, that a He
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