Essay On Neonatal Nursing

What I know about neonatal nursing: Neonatal nursing is a special type of nursing in the medical field that deals with only infants. Most of the infants are living with life-threatening conditions. Being a neonatal nurse can occasionally mean assisting a brand new mother and her healthy baby get acquainted with each other, but mostly a neonatal nurse spends his or her time in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) tending to very sick and/or premature babies.
Why I am interested in neonatal nursing: I am interested in neonatal nursing because I have always wanted a career in the medical field. Although I was never exactly sure which position I wanted in the medical field, I knew I wanted to specialize in assisting infants. I myself was born
The word neonatal means, "the first month of life." Neonatal nursing is a subspecialty of nursing dealing with newborn infants born with problems including birth defects, prematurity, infections, cardiac malformations, and surgical problems. Many neonatal nurses start their careers as staff nurses caring for critically ill patients. When you finally reach the specialty of neonatal nursing, you have very much room to grow. There are many options, ranging from neonatal transport teams to participating in an ECMO team which provides heart and lung bypasses for infants. A neonatal nurse works in either a level one, two, or three nursery. Level one is filled with many healthy newborn babies. These nurseries are largely nonexistent, as most healthy babies are taken home as soon as their condition allows. A level two nursery is an intermediate care nursery where the baby may have been born early or is suffering from an acute illness. Finally, level three is an intensive care unit, otherwise referred to as NICU. Many babies require high technology care, such as ventilators or surgery. Surgery on the infants is often performed in the NICU to prevent complications which could arise from transporting the neonate through infectious zones of the