NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE NURSING COURSE

Trainer: Prof. Dr. Sema Kuğuoğlu, Assist Prof Aysel Kökçü Doğan, Assist Prof. Özlem Avcı

Objective: It aims to the development of participants who provide or will give intensive care to newborns, gain knowledge and skills in this field and to reflect them into practice.

Goals of the course:

After the course, participants will be able to:

• Reflect gained knowledge and skills to intensive care outcomes of newborn and families,
• Improve advance knowledge and clinic practices in newborn intensive care,
• Reflect evidence-based practice concepts with integrated individual care to approaches related to newborns and their families,
• Evaluate self role within the health care team,
• Prepare families for discharge by supporting them for participation in decisions related to care, treatment, and discharge of newborn, communication with health care team

Duration: This training program is 14 hours, including 10 hours of theoretical, 2 hours of classroom/laboratory practice and 2 hours of case studies.

Number of participants: 20–25 participants

Conditions of Participation: Nurses who work/will work in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in public/private health institutions could participate in this course

Content of the course:

• Intensive Care Nursing and Basic Concepts with Principles
• The Roles of Newborn Intensive Care Nurse
• Newborn Care Levels and Standards
• Initial Care of Newborn in Labor Room and Setting Physical Environment
• Care of Newborn Out of Labor Room And Physical Evaluation
• Synactive Theory and Newborn Intensive Care
• Individualized – Supportive – Developmental – Parent-Supported Care in the NICU
• (According to the functional health patterns/FHP)
• Parental Support and Communication
• Newborn care and Maintenance in the Intensive Care Unit
• Temperature Control & Maintenance of the Circulatory Functions of a Newborn
• Maintenance of the Newborn Respiratory Functions
• Infection Control in NICU
• Maintenance of Fluid Electrolyte Balance
• Pain Management in Newborn
• Specific Problems in Newborn Intensive Care Units
• Medicine Applications in Newborn
• Ethical and Legal Problems in Newborn Intensive Care Units
• Transportation-Discharge-Home Care-Follow Up of a Newborn Hospitalized in the NICU

Evaluation of the course: Pre-post tests

Education place: Hospitals of Medipol Health Group

Date of education: It will be announced according to the number of participants.