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Book Title: Neonatal Care Essentials for Nursing and Midwifery

by Jacqui McGregor

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Book Description: This resource is aimed at providing student midwives and nurses an entry level understanding of the role of the nurse/midwife in the neonatal environment. The book is divided into chapters following the notions of warm, sweet, pink and calm with an overview of transition to the extrauterine environment. It is paramount that we ask ourselves when caring for premature or haemodynamically unstable term infants, are they warm, are they sweet, are they pink, and finally are they calm. This resource will provide you with an entry level understanding of the pathophysiology behind some of the more commonly seen presentations in the neonatal special care nursery, and more importantly the resource will provide you with management strategies following the warm, sweet, pink and calm concepts.

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Book Description

This resource is aimed at providing student midwives and nurses an entry level understanding of the role of the nurse/midwife in the neonatal environment. The book is divided into chapters following the notions of warm, sweet, pink and calm with an overview of transition to the extrauterine environment. It is paramount that we ask ourselves when caring for premature or haemodynamically unstable term infants, are they warm, are they sweet, are they pink, and finally are they calm. This resource will provide you with an entry level understanding of the pathophysiology behind some of the more commonly seen presentations in the neonatal special care nursery, and more importantly the resource will provide you with management strategies following the warm, sweet, pink and calm concepts.

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Author

Jacqui McGregor

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Neonatal Care Essentials for Nursing and Midwifery Copyright © 2025 by Deakin University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Subject

Neonatal medicine

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Title
Neonatal Care Essentials for Nursing and Midwifery
Author
Jacqui McGregor
License

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Neonatal Care Essentials for Nursing and Midwifery Copyright © 2025 by Deakin University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

This book was published by Deakin University via the Council of Australian University Librarians Open Educational Resources Collective. The online version is available at https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/neonatal-care-essentials

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Neonatal Care Essentials for Nursing and Midwifery by Jacqui McGregor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 Licence by Deakin University.

Recommended citation: McGregor, J. (2024). Neonatal Care Essentials for Nursing and Midwifery. Deakin University. https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/neonatal-care-essentials

Recommended attribution: Neonatal Care Essentials for Nursing and Midwifery by Jacqui McGregor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 Licence by Deakin University.

Cover image  Person wearing gray shirt putting baby on scale by Christian Bowen used under Unsplash licence

Primary Subject
Neonatal medicine
Additional Subject(s)
Nursing, Nursing specialties, Midwifery
Institution
Deakin University
Publisher
Deakin University
Publisher City
Geelong
Publication Date
August 15, 2025