Policies, Procedures, and Competencies for Neonatal Nursing Care, Sixth Edition

Editors: Sandra Sundquist Beauman, MSN RNC-NIC, and Sue Bowles, DNP CNS RNC-NIC CBC

Policies, procedures, and competencies are the foundation of patient care and drive nursing practice. Updated for the first time in 8 years, Policies, Procedures, and Competencies for Neonatal Nursing Care, Sixth Edition:

• includes policies, procedures, and competencies based on the most current evidence available in the practice of neonatal nursing
• brings together in one location the most up-to-date evidence and best-practice protocols
• serves as an invaluable resource for developing, revising, or refining a unit's policies, procedures, and competencies
• provides language that can be customized to align with individual institutional policy and local and state regulations
• includes new competencies on Neonatal Withdrawal and aEEG Monitoring, as well as a new policy on Donor Milk Use.

This updated resource will serve and help advance an organization's commitment to evidence-based nursing and provide a strong support to neonatal nurses and neonatal nurse practitioners as they seek to give the highest quality of care to their vulnerable patients.

A downloadable PDF companion piece is included with purchase of the book. Once purchased, the companion piece will display in My Classroom, when logged into your NANN account.

Published in 2019.