Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing

Overview

The programme aims to assist you in taking a leading role in advancing and developing nursing and midwifery in this area, and effecting policy change in professional practice and health service provision.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing programme at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland is delivered part-time over one-year; with an option to complete the programme over a period of up to three years if necessary.

Learning outcomes

This programme will provide you with the skills and knowledge to:

• Demonstrate advanced new-born resuscitation techniques.

• Compare and critically evaluate the management and nursing care (in relation to the pathophysiologies studied) provided for the ill term neonate, and underpin practice with relevant research.

• Evaluate the immediate nursing care required and long-term management that neonates with specific congenital anomalies may require.

• Relate the birth of an infant with a congenital anomaly to the impact on the infant’s family and explore ways in which a supportive environment can be created within a neonatal unit.

• Critically assess, plan, implement and evaluate care of the sick preterm infant.

• Explore how preterm birth affects an infant's adaptation from the intra-uterine to the extra-uterine environment.