Topics About 'Neonatal Nursing'.

You Are Having A Baby Boy! Most women are ecstatic when they discover they are pregnant. Although some families choose not to have the sex of the fetus revealed to them during a routine ultrasound, many are counting the days until they can find o...

For centuries music has been used as a way for people to express joy, pain, excitement, sorrow, and many other emotions. Music is woven into the very fabric of our lives, running itself through the veins of our society. Music has also been an integra...

Respiratory Distress Syndrome is one of the more common reasons for a newborn's admission to the NICU. Two of the most commonly seen forms of respiratory distress in newborns are respiratory distress caused by surfactant deficiency and respiratory di...

The best thing about being a nurse is that you are always learning something new! As a dermatology nurse, I had the privilege of working with a pediatric dermatologist. I still remember walking into my first pediatric dermatology case. The patient wa...

In the burgeoning industry of private home-based baby care, 'baby nurse' is a title that refers to a trained individual who specializes in the care of infants from one day old up to one year old. A number of experienced registered nurses (RNs) and li...

Baby Cherish arrived at the unit on a Winter afternoon via medical transport in a flat car seat bed belted securely to a gurney that looked way too big for tiny 5-pound little self. We had been preparing for her arrival to the unit well before her bi...

Premature birth is categorized as an infant born prior to 37 weeks gestation. This is a world-wide issue. Statistics from the World Health Organization: Key facts Every year, an estimated 15 million babies are born preterm (before 37 comp...

Overview Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is extremely specialized and runs the gamut from the stable neonate to the extremely ill infant. NICU nurses are intensive care nurses of the smallest patients. Their work environment usual...

I mean, how did OR and NICU intertwine?! I asked them I did not have any experience before on that area. They said it's okay you're still young and you will learn. I, on the other hand, did not say anything about it because they are the one who's hir...

There is only one group of people in the United States that are required and forced by law to accept medical treatment. The argument is that this group of people are not rational autonomous individuals and that they are not able to give free and info...