The role of a midwife and a pediatric nurse in ensuring termomanagement by a physiological newborn

The theoretical part is focused in ensuring thermal management for a physiological new-born baby. To ensure the optimum thermal management for a new-born baby is very assential in order he/she can adapt to the external environment after the birth as a new-born baby is prone to loss of heat in the first moments after the birth. Body temperature regulation after childbirth is not sufficient and stable and therefore a new-born baby can get quickly cold when the surrounding temperature is low or, on contrary, he/she can get overheated when the temperature is high. That is why the nursing staff should minimize heat losses of a new-born baby and prevent his/her overheating. The first goal was to map out the knowledge of the nursing staff at the Department of Neonatology of ensuring thermal management of a physiological new-born baby at the labour ward. The other goal was to map out the way of ensuring thermal management of a physiological new-born baby at the labour ward. The research investigation was conducted by means of a qualitative survey using in-depth interviews and hidden observations of paediatric nurses at the Department of Neonatology at the Hospital in České Budějovice. All interviewed nurses have proved they know the way of ensuring thermal management of a physiological new-born baby at the labour ward correctly and at the same time all nurses observed have followed the Nursing Care Standard in Neonatology No. 513 Thermal management of a new-born baby when ensuring thermal management. This bachelor thesis could be used as a study material for students of the following years of midwifery studies. Further, it could be used as information material for the already experienced or fresh midwives and paediatric nurses. The outcome of the bachelor thesis is a leaflet providing information on ensuring thermal management of a physiological new-born baby