
Study advanced neonate nursing and how to become a neonatal nurse practitioner with this free online healthcare course. Have you ever been amazed by the tenacity of premature babies, who defy the odds to grow and prosper? Caring for a sick newborn demands specialised skills. This course will teach you how to care for preterm babies, assess their condition, help them eat and breathe, treat infections, anaesthetise for surgery, and maintain the nursery environment. Also, discover the nutrition that allows infants to grow healthy and strong. Enrol now!
| Course Category | Nursing, Health Care |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Distinguish between neonatal nursing and midwife nursing • List the duties of neonatal and perinatal nurses • Outline the career path to becoming a neonatal nurse • Discuss common neonatal infections and their treatments • State the significance of neonatal assessment and how it is conducted • Identify the newborns in need of special care • Define neonatal resuscitation, its types and methods • Summarise the role of nutrition in a baby's mental and physical development • Assess the infants who need specialised nutrition • Recall the physiology and background knowledge required to administer anaesthesia safely to newborn babies • Recognise the complications regarding neonatal resuscitation • Describe the environment of a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the difference between ICU and NICU |
| Course Code | 6015 |



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