About Neonatal
Neonatal Care is a sub-specialty of nursing care for newborn infants up to 28 days after birth. Neonatal Care nursing requires a high degree of skill, dedication and emotional strength as the nurses care for newborn infants with a range of problems, varying between prematurity, birth defects, infection, cardiac malformations and surgical problems. Neonatal care nurses are a vital part of the neonatal care team and are required to know basic newborn resuscitation, be able to control the newborn’s temperature and know how to initiate cardiopulmonary and pulse oximetry monitoring. Most neonatal care for infants from the time of birth until they are discharged from the hospital.
