What Exactly Does A Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Do?

Neonatal is abasically new born babies.

Neonatal nurses work in 3 level, I,II & III.

Basically, they care for premature or ill new born babies in a neonatal nursery. The nurseries are equiped with humidi-cribs(?) which are a controlled environment to help protect the newborn babies. Nurses will help feed and care for the babies. Depending on the level of care required, they will look after between 2 and 8 babies. Depends also on size of the neonatal nursery.

And they offer comfort to often lost/distressed parents. They are a wonderful bred of people.

info on levels

A Level I is usually a healthy newborn nursery鈥攍argely nonexistent now because mothers and babies have a very short hospital stay these days and often share the same room.

Level II is an intermediate care or special care nursery where the baby may be born prematurely or may be suffering from an illness; these babies may need supplemental oxygen, intravenous therapy, specialized feedings, or more time to mature before discharge.

The Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admits all neonates (during the first 28 days of life) who cannot be treated in either of the other two nursery levels. These babies may be small for their age, premature, or sick term infants who require high technology care, such as ventilators, special equipment or incubators, or surgery. The Level III units may be in a large general hospital or part of a children鈥檚 hospital. Neonatal nurses provide the direct patient care to these infants.