Music Therapy In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Clinical Analysis

The Use of Music Therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit The process of being born is a very shocking experience for the newborn. The change of environment, the amplified sounds and bright lights are stressful for the newborn. The preterm newborn is challenged with additional adjustments such as, difficulty breathing due to under developed lungs (Loewy, Stewart, Dassler, Telsey, Homel, 2013).The clinical question, Would the intervention of music therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) promote a newborn's stimulation of development during a critical period of growth? P- preterm newborn, I- music therapy intervention, C- no intervention, control, O- promote developmental stimulation and stress reduction. This clinical question is of particular interest because as a maternity nurse, the influential aspects contributing to the growth and
In the NICU often times it can be hard to find our teeny tiny patients underneath all of the medical equipment. Pre-term newborns are a unique and a vulnerable population due to the multi-systemic underdevelopment . Understanding the role of the external environment on the patient’s physiological manifestations is of great importance to the profession of nursing (Standley, 2007). The instinctive nature of the human body and human population leaves room for many uncontrollable variables. Nursing professionals are challenged with using clinical reasoning to apply and adapt interventions that are evidence-based, and patient centered in the clinical practice setting. The concept of having control to manipulate the external environment to produce positive patient outcomes and promote development and healing is an ideal