Neonatal Nurses College Aotearoa (NZNO)

Neonatal Nursing – an exciting world of practice

An article by Dale Garton published in the July 2011 issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, Volume 17 (6) p 18-19.

As the numbers of low birth weight and pre-term infants surviving continue to increase, so do the challenges and rewards facing neonatal nurses.

Neonatal Nursing – an exciting world of practice (PDF)

External websites of interest to neonatal nurses

• ACNN - Australian College of Neonatal Nurses (previously known as ANNA)
  www.acnn.org.au
• BMJ online updates
  http://bmjupdates.mcmaster.ca/index.asp
• British Medical Journal
  http://bmj.com
• Council of International Neonatal Nurses (COINN)
  www.coinnurses.org
• Dianne Brownson - Nursing Links
  http://members.tripod.com/DianneBrownson/organizations.html
• Education for change, NZ SIDs/SUDI information
  www.efc.co.nz
• Evidence Based Medicine
  www.evidence-based-medicine.co.uk
• FlightWeb - Air Medical Professionals
  www.flightweb.com
• Free medical journals
  www.freemedicaljournals.com/htm/special.htm
• International Lactation Consultant Association
  www.ilca.org
• International Council of Nurses (ICN)
  www.icn.ch/index.html
• Karolinska Institute
  http://ki.se/?l=en 
  www.mic.stacken.kth.se/Diseases
• Kidshealth
  www.kidshealth.org.nz
• Māori Perspectives
  www.maori.org.nz
• Medical Books New Zealand Limited
  http://medical-books.co.nz
• Medscape Nurses
  www.medscape.com/nurses
• National Association of Neonatal Nurses America
  www.nann.org/index.html
• National library of medicine
  www.nlm.nih.gov
• Neonatal and Infant calculators
  http://nicutools.org
• Neonatal images
  http://images.google.co.nz/images?q=neonatal
• Neonatal Unit design standards
  www.nd.edu/~nicudes
• New Health PMMRC
  http://www.pmmrc.health.govt.nz
• New Zealand Drug Foundation
  http://www.nzdf.org.nz
• New Zealand Health
  www.everybody.co.nz
• New Zealand Ministry of Health
  www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf
• NNA UK - Neonatal Nurses Association United Kingdom
  www.nna.org.uk
• Nursing New Zealand
  www.geocities.com/HotSprings/2271
• On-line citations from Medline
  www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
• Paediatric Society of NZ
  www.paediatrics.org.nz
• Science direct
  www.sciencedirect.com/science
• Statistics NZ
  www.stats.govt.nz/default.htm
• The auscultation assistant
  www.wilkes.med.ucla.edu/S4.htm
• Zero to Three
  www.zerotothree.org
• WHO child growth standards
  www.who.int/nutrition/media_page/en