Comprehensive Neonatal Nursing Care

An Introduction to Neonatal Nursing Care now includes developments in caring for the pre-term, sicknewborns while still offering a systematic approach. It is an expansive book covering all areas ofneonatal nursing, providing the reader with genuine examples of clinical practice. The book looks atgeneral issues such as the essence of care, ethics, protection, and welfare. It also presents a range ofconditions commonly affecting pre-term infants such as jaundice, renal disorders, and gastrointestinalconditions. Case studies relevant to the topics under discussion encourage readers to reflect on andassess their own practice. Written for nurses, it concentrates on the common problems occurring withinthe neonatal intensive care unit. This user-friendly book will enable nurses to recognise, rationalise andremedy these problems using both a multi-systems and an evidence-based approach.