Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing

This new edition of Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing is comprehensive, up to date and evidence based. With more pedagogical features and a practice-focused approach, this is an essential text for nurses and allied health professionals caring for sick newborn infants.

Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing focuses on the common problems and related care occurring within the neonatal specialty. It is thoroughly updated throughout, with three entirely new chapters on antenatal and perinatal care, continuing care beyond the neonatal unit, and specific diagnostic neonatal practice. There is new content on psychologically informed care of the family, community-based care, perinatal optimisation, health inequalities, diagnostic procedures, drug mechanisms, and more. The accessible and interactive approach used in the book enables readers to recognise, rationalise, and understand clinical problems using an evidence-based approach. Divided into four parts, the book provides an overview of neonatal care and a detailed look at the physical and emotional wellbeing of neonate and family, a range of clinical aspects of neonatal care, and key practices and procedures. The book’s web-based companion includes online resources, case studies with answer guides, and learning activities, and can be found at www.routledge.com/cw/petty.

Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing will be essential reading for both new and experienced nurses, allied health professionals, and students learning about neonatal care, including those undertaking qualifications in the neonatal specialism and pre-registration students taking relevant modules or placements.

Julia Petty is an adult, paediatric, and neonatal nurse who trained and worked as a practice educator at Great Ormond Street hospital before becoming a Senior Lecturer at City University, London, UK. There, she co-led the neonatal nursing education portfolio for 12 years before moving to the University of Hertfordshire in 2013. Her current role is Associate Professor (learning and teaching) and Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing.

Lisa Kaiser has been a neonatal nurse in the UK since 2008, having gained her paediatric nursing diploma in Vienna in 2007. During this time, Lisa has developed extensive clinical expertise across Level 1, 2, and 3 neonatal units, including specialist surgical neonatal care. She qualified as an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner in 2014 and gained her MSc in 2019.

Glenys Boxwell (Connelly) was an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. She was previously a senior lecturer at Homerton College, Cambridge, and has now retired from clinical practice. Glenys was the editor of Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing for the 1st and 2nd editions in 2000 and 2010, respectively, continuing as part of the editing team for the 3rd edition, published in 2020. We are very grateful to Glenys for the original development of this key, widely reputed neonatal nursing care textbook that has formed the basis of this revised 4th edition.