Placement Profile – Neonatal Unit
RAH
Type of placement
Medical neonates
Placement location
Telephone number
Neonatal Unit
RAH
Paisley
0141 314 7035
Senior Charge
Nurse/Area Manager
Patricia Friel – Clinical Coordinator
Team Leaders
Key learning
opportunities and
experience to be
gained
Nursing care
Holistic and family centred care
Essential Nursing Care includes all aspect of nursing care delivery – Personal
hygiene, pressure area care and nutritional management which includes oral
and nasogastric feeding
Enteral feeding – nasogastric,
Communication skills
Medicine administration
Wound management
Obtaining a wide range of specimens
Working within a multi-disciplinary team
Admission / Discharges / internal and external transfers
Documentation & record keeping
Prioritising care
Care of neonates
Care of neonates with common medical conditions e.g. jaundice,
hypoglycaemia, neonatal abstinence syndrome
Care of neonates with complex medical conditions e.g. extreme prematurely
Care of a neonatal on long term oxygen
Rooming in care and transitional care
Care of the mother post delivery psychological well being
Parent & infant bonding
Breast feeding
Parent craft
Neonatal screening
Infection control i.e. source isolation or protective isolation
Care of a neonate with I.V line/ cannula
Care of a neonate requiring ventilation support
Recognition of the sick neonate through observations, vital signs and the use
of assessment tools
Gaining an understanding of a wider use of tests/ investigations and
treatments required for infants
Neonates receiving blood transfusions
Neonatal transport team
Child Protection e.g. case conference
Attendance at delivery on labour ward
Neonatal resuscitation
Palliative Care
End of life care
Bereavement care
Additional learning
opportunities linked to
placement:
Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Clinics
Neurodevelopment team / clinic
Additional information:
Shifts - 12 hours
Suggested reading:
Last updated:
Trigg, E & Mohammed, A (2010) Practice in Children’s Nursing Edinburgh:
Churchill Livingstone
Boxwell, G (editor)( 2010) Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, London,
Routledge
Levene,M.I, Tudehope, D.I. & Sinha,S.K ( 2008) Essential Neonatal Medicine,
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
Neonatal books & articles
June 2011