Full Description
This benchmark handbook for neonatal nurse practitioners describes the most common conditions and procedures in an easy-to-access streamlined format. This thoroughly revised third edition continues to promote the foundational principles of evidence-based nursing practice worldwide, while taking the resources and requirements of different practice settings into account. It delivers updated information on trauma-informed care and offers new sections on parent perspectives about transition to home, neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS), and therapeutic hypothermia.
Designed with a logical organization, Neonatal Nursing Care Handbook, Third Edition features brief narratives and plentiful illustrations and charts. This quick reference is easily used by English-as-second-language nurses and can be conveniently stored in a pocket for on-the-go referral. Part I uses a systems approach to address management of disorders related to each body system. All chapters include a brief definition of the neonatal problem, followed by diagnostic tests and labs. Part II encompasses special care considerations such as nutrition, surgical care, and palliative care. Part III discusses widely seen procedures and diagnostic tests, complete with lab values. Appendices contain additional useful content on weights and temperatures, common abbreviations, and pertinent web resources.
New to the Third Edition:
Addresses trauma-informed care
Additional Content On:
Generalized nursing care regarding respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, renal, and hematologic/immune systems
Bottle feeding
Oral/Nasogastric/Gastrointestinal Tube Feedings
Parent perspective on the transition home/primary care
High frequency ventilation and new techniques
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal (NOW)
Total body cooling/therapeutic hypothermia
Key Features:
Written by neonatal nurses and other health professionals for neonatal nurses
Assists neonatal nurses in making sound clinical decisions
Provides streamlined, well-organized format for quick information retrieval
Written in brief narratives supported by illustrations, diagrams, and flow charts
Easily understandable to English-as-second-language nurses
Covers diagnostic tests and lab values and includes medication guide
Contents
Section I: Systems Assessment and Management of Disorders
Chapter 1: Respiratory System
Chapter 2: Cardiovascular System
Chapter 3: Neurologic System
Chapter 4: Gastrointestinal System
Chapter 5: Renal System
Chapter 6: Hematologic and Immune System
Section II: Special Care Considerations in Neonatal Nursing
Chapter 7: Nutrition
Chapter 8: Surgical Care for the Neonate
Chapter 9: Skin Care
Chapter 10: Family-Centered Developmental Care
Chapter 11: The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Environment
Chapter 12: Trauma Informed Developmental Care
Chapter 13: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome/Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal
Chapter 14: Palliative Care
Chapter 15: Transition to Home and Primary Care
Section III: Common Procedures, Diagnostic Tests, and Lab Values
Chapter 16: Common Procedures, Diagnostic Tests, and Lab Values
Chapter 17: Diagnostic Tests
Chapter 18: Common Laboratory Values
Chapter 19: Common Drugs: Medication Guide
