This book provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery. This edition includes discussions of contemporary topics of interest, such as informatics, genetics, global health, and family-centered care, which are vital to providers caring for neonates today. The case studies and the evidence-based practice dialogues at the end of each chapter provide great opportunities for further reflection.

The book is useful to a wide audience in nursing, including undergraduate and graduate nursing students, practicing neonatal and pediatric nurses, and advanced practice nurses who care for neonates.” Score: 92, 4 Stars.–Doody’s Medical Reviews

This ‘classic’ has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the most up-to-date research findings and strategies for providing cost-effective and evidence-based care. New chapters address emerging infections, the late preterm infant, and neonatal care from a global perspective. Included are updated neonatal care protocols and procedures, neuroprotective risk factors, new treatments, and new trends in developmental care.

Text integrates the Institute of Medicine’s (10M) five competencies, reflects the Affordable Healthcare Act and the Robert Wood Johnson and 10M report “The Future of Nursing.”

The text continues to provide neonatal care from a physiologic and pathophysiologic approach, with a major emphasis on nursing management at the bedside and advanced practice level. Each neonatal body system is presented, along with E-B interventions to assist in understanding the ‘why’ behind what is seen in the clinical area.

Integrative management is threaded through the text along with extensive research findings to support practice strategies and rationales for sound clinical decision-making. Topics of recent interest include iatrogenic complications, neonatal pain, use of computers or other technology in neonatal care, and neonatal AIDS. Case studies enhance understanding of both common and rare neonatal conditions.

New to the Fifth Edition:

• New chapters: emerging infections, the late preterm infant, and neonatal care from a global perspective
• Updated neonatal care protocols and procedures, neuroprotective factors, new treatment modalities and new trends in developmental care
• Tackles the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
• Addresses the expansion of the nurse’s role in the US and worldwide
• Provides case studies that lead the reader through the identification, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of common and rare neonatal conditions