"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 (I0M) five competencies, reflects the Affordable Healthcare Act and the Robert Wood Johnson and I0M 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"--Provided by publisher.

Preceded by: Comprehensive neonatal care / [edited by] Carole Kenner, Judy Wright Lott. 4th edition. c2007.

Unit 1: Prenatal considerations and care. Fetal development: environmental influences and critical periods -- Prenatal, intrapartal, and postpartal risk factors -- Unit 2: Intrapartal and newborn care. Resuscitation and stabilization of the newborn and infant -- Assessment of the newborn and infant -- Normal term newborn -- Unit 3: Systems assessment and management of disorders. Respiratory system -- Cardiovascular system -- Gastrointestinal system -- Metabolic system -- Endocrine system -- Immune system -- Integumentary system -- Hematologic system -- Musculoskeletal system -- Neurologic system -- Auditory system -- Ophthalmic system -- Genitourinary system -- Unit 4: Special considerations. Fluids, electrolytes, vitamins, and minerals -- Nutrition management of premature infants -- Neonatal and infant pharmacology -- Emerging technologies in neonatal care: health care simulation for neonatal care -- Pain in the newborn and infant -- Fetal therapy -- Surgical considerations in the newborn and infant -- Emerging infections -- Unit 5: Vulnerable populations. Newborn or infant transplant patient -- Extremely-low-birth-weight (ELBW) infant -- The late preterm infant -- Unit 6: Environmental health and family-centered care in the NICU and beyond -- Neurobehavioral development -- The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) environment -- Family: essential partner in care -- Palliative and end-of-life care -- Complementary and integrative therapies -- Postdischarge care of the newborn, infant, and families -- Unit 7: Neonatal care in the new millennium: challenges and opportunities. Trends in neonatal care delivery -- Neonatal care using informatics -- Human genetics and genomics: impact on neonatal care -- Trends in neonatal research and evidence-based practice -- Legal and ethical issues in neonatal care -- Neonatal care from a global perspective -- Competency-based education and continued competency -- Unit 8: Neonatal diagnostic and care protocols. Diagnostic processes -- Developmental care for the sick and preterm infant -- Neonatal transport -- Introduction to vascular access -- Age-appropriate care of the premature and hospitalized infant -- Compentency education in NICU -- Transfusion guidelines -- Management of jaundice in the newborn nursery -- Appendix A: Neonatal nurses and interconception care -- Appendix B: Conversion table to standard international (SI) units -- Appendix C: Frequently used reference values and conversions.