Chang gung health care

The trend of parent-child reading has spread from the United States to Taiwan Province Province. In addition to sporadic doctors starting to promote parent-child reading from their own clinics, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital will also be fully promoted as a medical center from next year, combining various resources inside and outside the hospital. From interns to attending doctors, from nurses to story-telling volunteers, we should all study for our parents and children.

Walking into the 5th floor of Chang Gung Memorial Building in Linkou, the children in the children's intensive care unit were inserted with various tubes and needles, and ECG and ventilator were on standby at any time. The scene of young life intertwined with cold instruments makes the atmosphere tense, but this is the starting point for Chang Geng to promote parent-child reading.

Wei Ziyi, the head nurse, served in the infant intensive care unit for five years. Almost all the children in his hand are seriously ill premature babies. Parents here can't kiss and hug their children like ordinary people. The pipes in the baby hinder the connection between parents. Even though he was ready to leave the hospital and go home, his parents were full of worries: "Can he really go home?" The nursery on the other side faces a similar situation. Even for healthy children, the strangeness of novice parents taking care of their children can cause anxiety.

Chang gung memorial hospital promotes parent-child reading in intensive care unit. The focus is not on cognition, but on opening opportunities for parents to interact with their babies. Yang Huanshi photo

So they thought of using books as a medium to let parents learn to interact with their children. Before leaving the hospital, they will give their parents a book as a "graduation gift" for their children and teach them how to tell stories to their children.

Compared with didactic nursing guidance, the gentle power of picture books is familiar material for parents, which makes parents relax their guard, increases their confidence in parenting, and is more willing to consult medical staff if they have problems. "Books are parents' tools and skills," Wei Ziyi said. Accompanying the baby and parents to take the first step of growth, Wei Ziyi's achievement is that parents will tell her that "the baby will laugh and have a lot of expressions"!

Linkou Chang Gung Hospital has been engaged in pediatrics for a long time, not only since its establishment. In general hospitals, there was only one pediatric nursing before 18, but in Chang Gung, it was subdivided into 13 departments and more than 70 pediatric specialties. The vice president of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital is Huang Jinglong, director of pediatric allergy, asthma and rheumatism, and also the former chairman of Pediatric Medical Association, not to mention the avant-garde welfare minister Lin, who is also a doctor in pediatric infection department of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, which shows the status and specialty of pediatrics in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.