Neonatal Intensive Care
The purpose of this unit is to extend previously acquired knowledge and consider the health needs of babies and families admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit. Neonates are admitted because of their prematurity or because they require ongoing support for acute illness, complex conditions, surgery, or post-surgical convalescence. This unit of study is comprised of four themes. The first theme covers the family-centred, neurodevelopmentally supportive assessment and management of prematurely born babies and their families, with the second theme providing a detailed overview of commonly experienced ongoing health challenges. The third theme outlines diagnoses warranting admission of the unwell term infant, while the fourth theme describes common neonatal surgical interventions.
Students choosing this specialty elective must be employed in a neonatal intensive care unit.
Term : JANUARY
Hours of Study: 150
Credit Points : 6
From January 2022, this single unit of study ‘Neonatal Intensive Care’ permanently replaces single units of study 300 ‘Neonatal Care in the Perinatal Environment’ and 301 ‘Neonatal Care of the High-risk Newborn’, which will be no longer offered.
Theme 1: Initial assessment and management of the prematurely born baby
develop knowledge of neonatal resuscitation and stabilisation in the perinatal environment and transmit this to others
Theme 2: Ongoing health challenges facing the prematurely born baby
Evaluate the evidence-based knowledge and skills underpinning neonatal assessment and management in the perinatal environment
Theme 3: The unwell term infant
Critically analyse information regarding medical and surgical care specific to gestational sub-populations in the perinatal environment
Theme 4: Neonatal surgical interventions
Appraise the psychosocial needs of families in the perinatal environment
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