Auditing Nursing cares Regarding Neonate of diabetic mothers

Aims: nursing care for the neonates of mothers who suffer from diabetes mellitus is among the key factors in improving neonates’ survival. however, nurses face many challenges while providing care to these neonates. therefore, this study was conducted “to compare the current situation of care delivery to these neonates with the optimum situation and standards for clinical practice”. methods: in this descriptive study, 400 cases of nursing care delivery to neonates were observed in 2014. the study population and sample was comprised of all care services provided to the neonates of diabetic mothers in morning, evening, and night working shifts. the study setting was the operating rooms, delivery rooms, neonatal care wards, and neonatal intensive care units of three hospitals affiliated to babol university of medical sciences, babol, iran. the data collection method was observation by using checklists. all observations were made by a single observer. sampling was performed by using the event and the time sampling techniques. three checklists were developed through literature review for assessing the accordance of nursing care services with existing standards. the validity of the checklists was confirmed through content validity assessment. moreover, the inter-rater interclass correlation coefficient of the delivery room checklist and the checklists for the other three units was respectively 0.98 and 0.95. results: the accordance of nursing care services with the available standards in the neonatal care wards and intensive care units, delivery rooms, and operating rooms was 85.1%, 79%, and 62.2%, respectively. conclusions: the nursing care provided to the neonates of diabetic mothers in delivery and operating rooms was way below the optimum situation and standards. this finding can be attributed to factors such as insufficiencies in nursing education as well as nurses’ lack of knowledge about the standards for clinical practice.