Open AccessAdvancement of Promoting Developmental Care in Belgium
Author(s) -
Katleen Janssens,
L. Grevesse,
A. Clercx,
M. Claesen,
G. Haelterman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
developmental observer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2689-2650
DOI - 10.14434/do.v12i1.27839
Subject(s) - subsidy , government (linguistics) , nursing , medicine , medical education , psychology , business , political science , philosophy , linguistics , law
The Belgian Federal government promotes Family Centered Devel-opmental Couplet Care nationally. Since 2012 the Federal Public Services (FPS) has encouraged hospitals to train their medical and nursing sta in developmental care (DC) through educational contracts. Belgian hospitals with such an educational contract are oered nancial support and four free DC conference days annu-ally. Moreover, the FPS assigned two DC coordinators to visit these neonatal units. From 2015 till 2017 NICUs training their sta in Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP®) received nancial support by the federal gov-ernment. In June 2017, the FPS began subsidizing DC training, specically Family Infant Neurodevelopmental Education (FINE) and Compréhension de Langage de L’enfant (CLE) in neonatal units had not didn’t receive nancial support up to that point.