Quality improvement Articles
Conference Presentations
This year's conference which was held at the Groenkloof Campus in Pretoria was filled with...
Very EXCITING news!
Very EXCITING news!!NNASA members can now enjoy the benefit of this free new resource.Not only is...
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
One of the developmental goals for 2030 is to reduce the neonatal mortality, but the data remains...
RSV awareness week is 1-7 June.
Globally, the leading cause of death in children 1 – 59 months of age is lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs). They cause 18.7%(uncertainty range 15.3 – 20.2) of deaths per annum in this age group, thevast majority of which occur in Africa and South Asia.[1,2] Respiratorysyncytial virus (RSV) is the commonest cause of pneumonia(20 – 40%) and bronchiolitis (40 – 80%) in children, particularlythose aged <1 year.[3-7] RSV is a single-stranded RNA virus in thePneumoviridae family, exhibiting two antigenic types
Newborn Individualized Developmental Care Program (NIDCAP)
Newborn Individualized Developmental Care Program (NIDCAP) is an internationally recognized method...
Physical contact with their babies in the neonatal ICU!
Physical contact with their babies in the neonatal ICU! That’s what some furious parents are...
South African Neonatal Skin Care Guidelines
The aim of this skin care guideline is to provide evidence-based, contextualized guidelines for...
Mother-Newborn Care Unit (MNCU) Experience in India: A Paradigm Shift in Care of Small and Sick Newborns
International KMC day is May 15th. It is high time that neonatal units started to review how they...
Kangaroo mother care (KMC) had a protective effect on the volume of brain structures in young adults born preterm
While the more immediate benefits of KMC for small and sick newborns are well studied and...
The World Health Organization’s Postnatal Care Guidelines
WHO urges quality care for women and newborns in critical first weeks after childbirth.The World...