Older Preemies: How Their Fight Continues So Let's Do Better in the NICU

Premature infants grow up and tell the survival in outcomes. From the heyday of neonatology, nurses have been instrumental in helping these babies survive and thrive enough to go home. Yet, families need coping mechanisms in dealing with the NICU trauma otherwise they will go home and treat their child as if everything is just fine. It isn't fine, and trauma, labels combine to create a hornet's nest of dysfunction in the family that ultimate erases that baby's long-term potential and affects them poorly for the rest of their lives. We need to do better.