Introduction: Accurate temperature measurement is basic for correct nursing of neonates and infants. Nurse has to take into account the condition of patients, ambient, age and adjust her procedures to her set goal. Many different ways of measuring body temperatureare are known, but not all of them are equally reliable and accurate. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to present the newest studies in the field of body temperature measuring in neonates and infants. Methods: We used descriptive method of work and review of professional and scientific literature from the field of nursing and body temperature measuring in neoates and infants Results: We analysed 13 relevant articles that were describing different ways of body temperature measuring. Authors of four articles would at least potentially recomend axillary temperature measuring, while in one article they didn’t advise it with unstable neonates. Four articles discused non-contact infrared thermometer, which measures temperature in the middle of forehead, and in only two of them researchers would recomend it. In one article, measuring on the skin of the abdomen was assesed as a good practise, instead of the skin in the middle of the chest, in anotherone they would rather use skin on the back instead of the skin on the abdomen. Measuring body temperature on the temporal artery was in special cases recomended based on three articles, tympanic way was however discussed only in one article and was also not recomended in it. Discussion and conclusion: Very good way of body temperature measuring is axillary thermometry, temporal artery measuring and measuring on the skin of the back, but we have to be aware of all the advantages and dissadvantages of these methods. Most of the times newborns have to be healthy and stable and be on room temperature care and not in heated environments. Tympanic body temperature measuring turned out to be unreliable, as well as non-contact infrared thermometer, that also got us some conflicting results.
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