An Improvement Plan to Increase Mother-infant 24-hour Rooming-in Rate.

Implementing rooming-in can help postpartum women to have more intimate contact with their newborn, and a key factor in successful breastfeeding. Our institute is devoted to being a baby-friendly hospital, but the rate of 24-hour rooming-in was low, occurred at an average of 4.6% for normal spontaneous delivery, while the average for caesarean section was 1.5%. The problems affecting the implementation of rooming-in were identified as follows: postpartum fatigue, staff unclear about the definition of 24-hour rooming-in, a shortage of manpower and lack of consensus among the postpartum unit and the delivery room. For the mother-infant rooming-in rate to meet the standard of Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, three solutions were drafted: the re-education, care measure and process reengineering, uniforming manpower and working routine. After the above schemes were implemented, the rates of 24-hour rooming-in for normal spontaneous delivery from 4.6% to 70.9%, and the rate for cesarean section increased from 1.5% to 43.5%, a substantially result which exceeded the achieve rate by over 100%, successfully accomplished the aim of the improvement plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]