Newborn Care Curriculum: Palliative Care for the Newborn

Skin care for the newborn.

Skin of the newborn differs from that of an adult in several ways. It is more susceptible to trauma and infection and requires special care. Certain principles of skin care have to be emphasized to the mother or caregiver such as gentle cleansing, adequate hydration and moisturization of the skin, preventing friction and maceration in body folds, and protection from irritants and bright sunligh...

Care of the Newborn

longer and presents new material on a variety of topics such as ionic imbalances, glomerulonephritis, and the roles played by parathyroid hormone and angiotensin/ aldosterone. The references have been updated and in many cases expanded. The format, organization, and concise style of this paperback monograph combined with its well-chosen tables, figures, and light, electron, and immunofluorescen...

Care of the newborn.

Situation Analysis and Designing an Interprofessional Curriculum for Palliative Care of the Cancer Patients

Introduction: Comprehensive palliative care of cancer patients could be achieved by developing interprofessional collaboration through which professionals from a variety of professions come together to meet the clients’ complexity of health care needs. Health professionals are supposed to get ready to perform such an important responsibility. Therefore an interprofessional curriculum for pallia...

Newborn Intensive Care Bibliography

Als, H., & Gilkerson, L. (1997). Th e role of relationship-based developmentally supportive newborn intensive care in strengthening outcomes of preterm infants. Seminars in Perinatology, 21(3), 178-189. Als, H., Lawhon, G., Duff y, F. H., McAnulty, G. B., Gibes-Grossman, R., & Blickman, J. G. (1994). Individualized developmental care for the very low birthweight preterm infant: Medical and neur...