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Healing Connections: The Nurse’s Contribution to Mother-Infant Bonding in the Context of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Shaw, Emma
http://orcid.org/0009-0002-3325-7665
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ma1735385744710848

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2025, Undergraduate Honors Program, Malone University, Honors Thesis.
Bonding between a mother and infant is instrumental in creating a healthy attachment for the dyad. In the case of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), dyad bonding can be more difficult because of the infant’s withdrawal symptoms, maternal opioid use disorder (OUD), and external factors that can influence maternal OUD and NAS diagnoses. Hospitalization directly following birth is a vital period for implementing nursing interventions that can promote bonding for the dyad early on, creating a foundation for continuation once the dyad is discharged. While several nursing interventions can assist the infant with withdrawal symptoms, the effects these interventions have on dyad bonding are not taken into consideration. This literature review will discuss the most effective nursing interventions that will support the mother and infant in dyad bonding in the context of NAS. This review will also explore the nurse’s essential role in helping facilitate environments specific to healthcare settings that are conducive of dyad bonding for the mother and infant. Through understanding the influences of OUD and NAS diagnoses, the importance of dyad bonding in a mother-infant relationship, and the nurse’s role in all this, healing connections can be initiated.
Holly Kibler (Committee Chair)
Kathyrn Huisinga (Other)
Bryson Davis (Committee Member)
Jennifer Hallock (Committee Member)
36 p.
Health Care; Nursing
NAS, neonatal abstinence syndrome, NICU, infant withdrawal, Eat Sleep Console, pharmacology, treatment, nursing, nursing care, hospitalization, long-term effect, maternal effect, bonding, dyad bonding, nursing interventions, opioid epidemic, maternal demographics

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  • Shaw, E. (2025). Healing Connections: The Nurse’s Contribution to Mother-Infant Bonding in the Context of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome [Undergraduate thesis, Malone University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ma1735385744710848

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Shaw, Emma. Healing Connections: The Nurse’s Contribution to Mother-Infant Bonding in the Context of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. 2025. Malone University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ma1735385744710848.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Shaw, Emma. "Healing Connections: The Nurse’s Contribution to Mother-Infant Bonding in the Context of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome." Undergraduate thesis, Malone University, 2025. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ma1735385744710848

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