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Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing (NIC)
Description
General Assessment and Management
- Physical and Gestational Age Assessment
- Maternal Risk Factors and Birth History
- Thermoregulation and Integumentary
- Fluids and Electrolytes and Glucose Homeostasis
- Nutrition and Feeding
- Resuscitation and Stabilization
- Oxygenation, Ventilation and Acid Base Homeostasis
- Neuroprotective and Neurodevelopment Care
- Infection and Immunology
Keywords
- Abnormal findings
- Abruptio placenta
- AIDS and HIV infections
- Airway management
- Alkalosis
- Alpha-fetoprotein
- Alveolar-arterial oxygen gradient
- Amniocentesis
- Amniotic bands
- Apgar scoring
- Apnea monitors
- Auditory brainstem response testing
- Auscultation techniques
- Bacterial infections
- Bag and mask ventilation
- Behavioral assessment
- Biophysical profile
- Blood gas interpretation
- Bottle feeding
- Breast milk
- Breastfeeding
- Calorie calculations
- Calorie expenditure
- Central line management
- Chorioamnionitis
- Circadian rhythms
- Cold stress
- Comfort care
- Common skin disorders/conditions
- Composition of breastmilk
- Continuous feeding
- Cord prolapse
- CPAP
- CSF
- Cultural practice
- Dehydration
- Delayed cord clamping
- Delivery room emergencies
- Developmental care
- Diaper dermatitis
- Dietary supplements
- Diurnal patterns
- Donor milk
- Drugs during resuscitation
- Effects of cesarean delivery
- Electrolyte monitoring
- Embryology
- Endotracheal suctioning
- Energy needs
- Enteral feedings
- Equipment
- Feeding cues, problems, and techniques
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Fetal and Placental Development
- Fetal heart rate patterns
- Fluid and electrolyte management
- Fluid calculations
- Forceps
- Formula composition
- Fungal infections
- Gavage feeding
- Gestational age assessment
- GIR
- Growth curves
- Habituation
- Heart sound evaluation
- Heat Loss Mechanisms
- Heat mattresses
- High frequency ventilators
- HSV
- Humidity
- Hyperthermia
- Impact of NICU environment
- In utero drug exposure complications
- In utero exposure to alcohol
- Incubator management
- Infection control
- Infectious diseases
- Infusions
- Insensible water loss
- Intrapartal Complications affecting the neonate
- Kangaroo care
- Laboratory values
- Lactate
- Lactation physiology
- Malpresentation
- Maternal factors affecting the newborn
- Maternal hemorrhage
- Maternal medications affecting the newborn
- Mechanical ventilation
- Mechanisms of heat loss and production
- Meconium
- Meningitis
- Method of delivery
- Methods of oxygenation and ventilation
- Monitoring devices
- Motor organization
- Muscle tone evaluation
- Needle aspiration
- Neonatal reflexes
- Neonatal transition to extrauterine life
- Neurobehavioral development
- Neurological assessment
- Neuromuscular examination
- Neutral thermal environment regulation
- Newborn care
- Noise reduction strategies
- Non-pharmacological interventions for pain
- Nonnutritive sucking
- Nonstress testing
- Normal fluid and electrolyte requirements
- Normal growth and development
- Normal variance
- NRP
- Nutrient requirements
- Nutrition management
- Obstetric complications affecting the newborn
- Obstetric emergencies
- Oligohydramnios
- Oxygenation interpretation and management
- Pain assessment
- Parenteral fluid therapy
- Physical assessment
- Physiologic monitoring
- Polyhydramnios
- Positioning
- Prenatal screens
- PROM
- Promoting sensory development
- Pulse oximetry
- Resuscitation & Stabilization
- S.T.A.B.L.E.
- Self-regulation
- Sepsis
- Sexual transmitted infections
- Skin care
- Sleep states
- Sleep wake patterns
- Small for gestational age (SGA)
- Standard laboratory value interpretation
- State organization
- Stress response
- Supportive care
- Thermoregulation
- Total parenteral nutrition
- Urinary tract infections
- Urine output
- Ventilator management
- Viral infections
- WBC
- Wraps