Comprehensive Neonatal Nursing Care (Paperback)

Praise for the Fifth Edition:

“This book provides a complete look at neonatal healthcare delivery…[It] includes discussions of contemporary topics of interest, such as informatics, genetics, global health, and family-centered care, which are vital to providers caring for neonates today. The case studies and evidence-based practice dialogues provide great opportunities for further reflection. The book is useful to a wide audience in nursing, including undergraduate and graduate nursing students, practicing neonatal and pediatric nurses, and advanced practice nurses who care for neonates."

Score: 92, 4 Stars--Doody's Medical Reviews

The sixth edition of this acclaimed neonatal nursing text is completely updated to encompass the most current research findings and strategies for providing cost-effective and evidence-based care. It continues to address neonatal care from a physiologic and pathophysiologic perspective, with a major emphasis on nursing management at the bedside and advanced practice level. It examines each neonatal body system and describes evidence-based interventions that assist in understanding the ‘why’ behind various clinical presentations. Integrative management is threaded throughout the text along with extensive research findings to support practice strategies and rationales for sound clinical decision-making. Case studies, evidence-based practice boxes, QSEN competencies, and online resources help to amplify and reinforce content.

New to the Sixth Edition:

• New technologies including neonatal health care simulation
• Trauma-Informed Care
• Substantial revisions to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program
• Updates in Continuous Quality Improvement
• Emphasis on neuroprotective factors
• Emerging global trends
• Genomics and its relationship to precision health prevention of diseases
• Maternal-Fetal Units
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and maternal drug use
• Leadership and cost management of the NICU
• Updates on neonatal care protocols and procedures, new treatments, and new trends in family-centered integrative developmental care
• New palliative care protocols
• Video clips regarding parental caregiving
• Parent perspectives on care
• Podcasts from experts in the field
• Highlighted callouts for Emergency Alert, Quality and Safety Issues, and Family Concerns

Key Features:

• Complete physiologic and embryologic foundation of each neonatal body system
• The relevance of various diagnostic tests
• Integrates quality and safety as per QSEN competencies
• Case studies, evidence-based practice boxes, parent handouts, and online resources
• Authored by internationally reputed “mother” of neonatal nursing
• Parent Voices provide new perspective on neonatal care

Carole Kenner, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, ANEF, IDFCOINN is the Carol Kuser Loser Dean/Professor of the School of ­Nursing and Health Sciences at The College of New Jersey. Dr. Kenner received a ­bachelors of science in nursing from the University of Cincinnati and her master’s and doctorate in nursing from Indiana University. She specialized in neonatal/perinatal nursing for her master’s and obtained a minor in higher education for her doctorate. She has authored more than 200 journal articles and 40 textbooks. 

Leslie B. Altimier, DNP, RN, MSN, NE-BC, is the Regional Director of Neonatal Services at SSM Health: Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, MO. She received her BSN from Kent State University, MSN from the University of North Carolina, and DNP from Northeastern University in Boston, and she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in compassionate healthcare through Northeastern University in collaboration with the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare and the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare. In her 30-year nursing career, she has specialized in neonatal and pediatric intensive care, and most recently, she is the Regional Director of Neonatal Services at SSM Health: Cardinal Glennon Children's & St. Mary’s Hospitals in St. Louis, MO.  

Marina V. Boykova, PhD, RN, FNAP is an associate professor of nursing in the School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Holy Family University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Boykova received her Diploma in Nursing Practice from the School of Nursing #3, Saint ­Petersburg, Russia; a Certificate in Theory and Practice of Nurse Education, Medical College #1, Saint Petersburg, Russia; a Certificate in Theory and Practice of Nurse Education, Chester, United Kingdom; Bachelor of Science with Honours in Professional Practice (Nursing), ­University of Liverpool, Chester, United Kingdom; Diploma of Higher Education in Nursing, Novgorod ­University of Y. Mudrogo, Novgorod, Russia; Master of Science in Health Promotion (Distinction), University of Liverpool, Chester, United Kingdom; and Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, ­Oklahoma. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International, Council of International Neonatal Nurses (COINN), National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN), National Academies of Practice (NAP), Eastern Nursing Research Society, and the American Nurses Association. She serves as a nonexecutive director for the Council of International Neonatal Nurses, Inc. (COINN). She is a member of the COINN Research Committee, the World Health Organization (WHO) STAGE Midwifery Working Group on Transitioning to Midwifery Models of Care. She is a fellow in the National Academies of Practice (NAP). Dr. Boykova’s clinical background is neonatal intensive care nursing. Her research interests center on transition from hospital to home and to primary care for parents of preterm infants. She has published over 40 journal articles, over 20 book chapters, and co-edited three textbooks. She coauthored a policy brief on Reducing Preterm Births for the American Academy of Nursing.