This course gives nurses an overview on health issues surrounding newborns. Nurses will learn to identify and understand common conditions associated with newborns and the procedures they will have to perform in the screening process.
Nurses learn the principles connected to gestational diabetes to help patients who may be diagnosed with the disease. After completing the course, students will be able to identify risk factors associated with gestational diabetes, understand lab tests patients need to take to find out if they are diabetic, and how to counsel mothers who are diagnosed.
Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, or neonatal jaundice, is common among newborns. This program will help nurses become familiar with how the disease is contracted, and how to diagnose and treat it. Nurses will also be able to determine risk factors for developing the condition.
This course teaches nurses to identify the stages of growth in fetal movement, fetal lung development, potential dangers of a high-risk pregnancy, and the signs and procedures to a neonatal pathology. This is a good refresher course for nurses who are established in their careers or for those just starting in the field.
Neonatal nurses must understand the factors associated with a preterm infant and the proper care in a hospital or health clinic. The topics addressed in this course include common problems associated with preterm infants and procedures nurses need to follow when taking care of preterm infants.