Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care - An Interprofessional Approach

Co-edited by a team of physicians and nurses, Merenstein & Gardner’s Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care: An Interprofessional Approach, Tenth Edition, is the leading resource for interprofessional collaborative care of critically ill newborns. Now printed in full color, it offers comprehensive coverage with a unique interprofessional collaborative approach and a real-world perspective that make it a practical guide for both nurses and physicians. This edition features updated content throughout to reflect the latest evidence-informed/evidence-based practice, national and international guidelines, and current protocols; a new Interprofessional Collaborative Practice chapter that provides a foundation for the team approach applied throughout the book; an expanded focus on parent teaching that reflects today’s diversity of family structures; an enhanced focus on gender and racial/ethnic inclusivity; and much more!

• NEW! Updated content throughout reflects the latest evidence-informed/evidence-based practice, national and international guidelines, and current protocols for interprofessional collaborative practice in the NICU
• NEW! Interprofessional Collaborative Practice chapter provides a foundation for the team approach applied throughout the book
• NEW! Expanded focus on parent teaching, particularly in today’s diversity of family structures (including LGBTQ+ parents, surrogate parents, and removing the stigma of single parenthood), equips you for the contemporary milieu of the NICU
• NEW! Enhanced focus on gender and racial/ethnic inclusivity puts special emphasis on inclusive language and on the growing challenge of identifying genetically linked conditions (such as G6PD, immune disorders, and sickle cell disease) in patients of mixed backgrounds, prepares you to provide effective and culturally competent care
• NEW! Content addresses the latest information and advances on key topics such as NICU follow-up, combatting healthcare disparities, the Immediate Kangaroo Mother Care (IKMC) protocol, the unique challenges of global pandemics in the NICU, discharge planning, and the growing problem of aggression from family members seeking information or access to pediatric patients
• NEW! Now printed in full color, with a full-color illustration program for improved usability and reference value
• UNIQUE! Core editor team of an advanced practice nurse and two physicians gives this internationally recognized reference a true interprofessional collaborative approach that is unmatched by any other resource
• Consistent organization within clinical chapters includes Physiology/Pathophysiology, Etiology, Prevention, Data Collection (History, Signs and Symptoms, and Laboratory Data), Treatment/Intervention, Complications, and Parent Teaching sections
• UNIQUE! Color-highlighted point-of-care clinical content makes high-priority clinical content quick and easy to find
• UNIQUE! Parent Teaching boxes outline the relevant information to be shared with a newborn patient’s caregivers
• Critical Findings boxes outline symptoms and diagnostic findings that require immediate attention to help you prioritize assessment data and steps in initial care
• Case Studies demonstrate how to apply essential content to realistic clinical scenarios for application-based learning

List of contents

Unit One: Foundations for Practice
1. Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

Unit Two: Support of the Neonate
2. Prenatal Environment: Effect on Neonatal Outcome
3. Perinatal Transport and Levels of Care
4. Care at Birth
5. Immediate Newborn Care
6. Heat Balance
7. Physiologic Monitoring
8. Acid-Base Homeostasis and Oxygenation
9. Diagnostic Imaging in the Neonate
10. Pharmacology in Neonatal Care
11. Drug Withdrawal in the Neonate
12. Pain and Pain Relief
13. The Neonate and the Environment: Impact on Development

Unit Three: Metabolic and Nutritional Care of the Neonate
14. Fluid and Electrolyte Management
15. Glucose Homeostasis
16. Total Parenteral Nutrition
17. Enteral Nutrition
18. Breastfeeding the Neonate with Special Needs
19. Skin and Skin Care

Unit Four: Infection and Hematologic Diseases of the Neonate
20. Newborn Hematology
21. Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia
22. Infection in the Neonate

Unit Five: Common Systemic Diseases of the Neonate
23. Respiratory Diseases
24. Cardiovascular Diseases and Surgical Interventions
25. Neonatal Nephrology
26. Neurologic Disorders
27. Genetic Disorders, Malformations, and Inborn Errors of Metabolism
28. Neonatal Surgery

Unit Six: Psychosocial Aspects of Neonatal Care
29. Families in Crisis: Theoretical and Practical Considerations
30. Grief and Perinatal Loss
31. Discharge Planning and Follow-Up from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
32. Ethics, Values, and Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care

About the author

Professor of Nursing, DNP Program Coordinator, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Colorado Springs Health Partners, Colorado Springs, COBrian S. Carter is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Division of Neonatology and Bioethics Center, Children's Mercy Hospital-Kansas City , Kansas City, Missouri, USA.Professor Susan Niermeyer works in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, School of Medicine.

Product details

• Assisted by: Carter Brian S. (Editor), Enzman-Hines Mary I (Editor), Mary I. Enzman-Hines (Editor), Susan Niermeyer (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.10.2025
• EAN: 9780323930666
• ISBN: 978-0-323-93066-6
• Weight: 450 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Critical Care, MEDICAL / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care, Intensive Care Medicine, Intensive care nursing, Neonatal Medicine