RESUMEN
Objective To study the effect of continuous nursing on the growth and development of extremely low birth weight preterm infants. Me thods 80 cases of extremely low birth weight preterm infants treated in the Dept. of Pediatrics, The Third People's Hospital of Yunnan Province from October 2015 to October 2016, were selected and divided into 2 groups: experimental group and control group, 40 cases in each group. The control group was given conventional nursing, the experimental group was given continuous nursing. Then the growth and development of infants in the two groups were compared. Re s ults The weight, body length, head circumference in the experimental group were significantly better than the control group, the difference was statistically significant (P ＜ 0.05). The readmission rate in 6 months of infants in the experimental group was lower and the parents satisfaction was significantly higher than that of control group, the difference was statistically significant (P ＜0.05). Conclus ion Conventional nursing has significant effect for extremely low birth weight preterm infants, it can improve the growth and development of infants, reduce the hospital readmission rate, and improve parents' satisfaction.