Prepare for Neonatal ICU with confidence

What your NICU 90-day path covers

• ✓Transition to extrauterine life and what interrupts it
• ✓Gestational age assessment and what prematurity predicts
• ✓Ongoing assessment, pain and the deteriorating neonate
• ✓Thermoregulation and the cost of being cold
• ✓Fluid, electrolyte and glucose balance in the preterm infant
• ✓Renal function, acute kidney injury and genitourinary conditions
• ✓Respiratory distress syndrome and surfactant
• ✓Non-invasive respiratory support and oxygen targeting
• ✓Mechanical ventilation and lung-protective strategy
• ✓Airway management, intubation and the difficult neonatal airway
• ✓Bronchopulmonary dysplasia and the chronically ventilated infant
• ✓Congenital heart disease and the duct-dependent newborn
• ✓Neonatal hemodynamics, hypotension and the patent ductus
• ✓Cardiovascular pharmacology and vascular access in the neonate
• ✓Enteral nutrition, human milk and feeding the preterm gut
• ✓Parenteral nutrition and metabolic bone disease
• ✓Necrotizing enterocolitis: recognition and management
• ✓Surgical and gastrointestinal conditions in the newborn
• ✓Neurologic assessment, seizures and neuroprotective care
• ✓Intraventricular hemorrhage and white matter injury
• ✓Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and therapeutic hypothermia
• ✓Early-onset sepsis: risk assessment and antibiotic stewardship
• ✓Late-onset sepsis, fungal infection and meningitis
• ✓Infection prevention and the neonatal unit environment
• ✓Glucose homeostasis, hypoglycemia and metabolic emergencies
• ✓Jaundice, hyperbilirubinemia and kernicterus prevention
• ✓Anemia, polycythemia and coagulation in the newborn
• ✓Complications of extreme prematurity and retinopathy
• ✓Congenital anomalies, genetics and the dysmorphic infant
• ✓The surgical neonate and perioperative care
• ✓Developmental care and the neonatal sensory environment
• ✓Family integration, communication and parents as caregivers
• ✓Palliative care, bereavement and difficult decisions
• ✓Patient safety and human factors in neonatal intensive care
• ✓The professional role, teamwork and transport
• ✓Ethics, uncertainty and decisions at the limits of viability

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Before you study anything, AscendRN's gap analysis shows you exactly where you stand across the ten competencies that matter for neonatal icu — patient assessment, pharmacology, prioritization, and more. You find your gaps here, in minutes, instead of at the bedside. Then your path adapts to close them.

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