Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing

Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing is a comprehensive, evidence-based text for nurses and allied health professionals caring for sick newborn infants. This user-friendly text focuses on the common problems and related care occurring within the neonatal specialty. All previous chapters have been thoroughly updated and new content includes chapters on, for example, organisation of neonatal care, assessment of the neonate, the premature and low birth weight neonate as well as palliative care. In addition, the book now includes a broad and in-depth web-based companion comprising online resources, case studies with answer guides and learning activities. This accessible and interactive approach enables nurses to recognise, rationalise and understand clinical problems using an evidence-based approach. Divided into four parts, the book provides an overview of neonatal care, and a detailed look at the physical and emotional wellbeing of neonate and family, a range of clinical aspects of neonatal care, and key practices and procedures.Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing will be essential reading for both new and experienced nurses, allied health professionals and students learning about neonatal care including those undertaking qualifications in the neonatal specialism and pre-registration students taking relevant modules or placements.

About the Author

Glenys Boxwell was an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. She was previously a senior lecturer at Homerton College, Cambridge, and has now retired from clinical practice.

Julia Petty worked as a neonatal and children’s nurse clinical educator and neonatal course leader prior to her current role as senior lecturer in children’s nurse education at the University of Hertfordshire.

Lisa Kaiser qualified as an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner in 2014 and is currently practising at Glan Clwyd Hospital in North Wales. She completed her MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, which involved research of noradrenaline infusion stability.