Kangaroo Care Waitakere Hospital Clinical Audit (July 2019)

Despite the many documented benefits of skin-to-skin contact for preterm infants and their parents, the uptake is still described as slow globally. The purpose therefore was to measure the amount of skin-to-skin contact taking place on Waitakere hospital Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) to ascertain a baseline measure. Nurses' knowledge, perceptions and experiences of skin-to-skin on the unit was also explored to more fully understand what some of the barriers and enablers were to skin-to-skin contact specifically on Waitakere hospital SCBU.