For Patients/Families

Neonatal nurse practitioner
Registered nurses who are qualified through additional education and training to provide certain aspects of a baby’s medical care. They often transport critically ill infants, attend high-risk deliveries and perform procedures in the NICU (placement of breathing tubes, special intravenous lines, etc.). In many NICUs they also take responsibility for primary management of sick newborns. A doctor, usually a neonatologist, supervises them.