neonatal nurse
Infant ward professional
A neonatal nurse is a registered nurse specializing in the care of newborn infants, particularly those born premature, ill, or with birth defects.
They work primarily in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), monitoring fragile infants and supporting anxious parents through critical early days: The neonatal nurse taught us how to hold our preemie.
- NICUIntensive care for newborns
- incubatorControlled warming enclosure
- baby warmerNeonatal heating apparatus
- preemieBaby born early
- newbornInfant just delivered
infant · hospital · scrubs · night shift · monitor · vital signs · tiny · fragile · umbilical · swaddle · skin to skin · feeding · breast milk · jaundice · vitals · oxygen · feeding tube · premature
- medical careersphysician, surgeon, pediatrician, cardiologist, oncologist
- nursingRN, LPN, LPNs, CNAs, CNA
- pediatric professionalspediatrician, neonatologist, newborn specialist, pediatric surgeon, pediatric dentist
- childcare workersnanny, live-in nanny, au pair, childminder, daycare teacher
- night workersnight owls, night watchman, night auditor, night crew, security guards
- birth professionalsmidwife, doula, obstetrician, OB-GYN, birth attendant