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Download the full set of standards in the field of Data collection & documentation 

• Accessibility of information

• Characteristics of health indicators

• Quality indicators

Download the full set of standards in the field of Birth & transfer

• Collaboration with parents in ante- and perinatal care

• Cord management at the delivery of preterm infants

• Cord management at the delivery of term infants

• Information provision for women about the risk for preterm birth (PTB)

• Maternal transfer for specialist care

• Neonatal transport

• Organisation of perinatal care

Download the full set of standards in the field of Follow-up & continuing care

• Assessment of visual function

• Cognitive development

• Communication, speech, and language

• Coordination and integration of care after discharge home

• Healthy lifestyle and cardiovascular risk factors

• Hearing screening

• Immunisation of preterm infants

• Meeting special needs at school

• Mental health

• Motor and neurological follow-up assessment

• Parent mental health

• Peer and sibling relationships

• Post-discharge responsive parenting programmes

• Reproductive counselling

• Respiratory outcome

• Transition from hospital to home

Download the full set of standards in the field of NICU design 

• Core principles of NICU design to promote family-centred care

• Facilitation of skin-to-skin care and parental involvement through the physical environment

• General layout of the unit

Download the full set of standards in the field of Medical care & clinical practice 

• Hypoglycaemia in at risk term infants

• Diagnosis and management of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC)

• Management of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn infant (PPHN)

• Management of Respiratory Distress Syndrome

• Management of suspected early-onset neonatal sepsis (EONS)

• Neonatal jaundice

• Neurological monitoring of the high-risk infant: EEG and aEEG

• Neurological monitoring in the high-risk infant: Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)

• Neurological monitoring in the high-risk infant: ultrasound and MRI scanning

• Neurological monitoring in the high-risk infant: clinical neurological evaluation

• Postnatal management of newborn infants with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE)

• Postnatal support of transition and resuscitation

• Prevention, detection, documentation, and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)

• Prevention of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD)

• Prevention of vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) at birth

Download the full set of standards in the field of Ethical decision-making & palliative care

• Communication in ethically complex decisions

• Decisions of withholding or withdrawing life support

• Palliative care

• Rights of infants, parents, and families in difficult decisions

Download the full set of standards in the field of Nutrition 

• Effective implementation of early parenteral feeding

• Establishment of enteral feeding in preterm infants

• Family education and training on infant feeding in the unit and after discharge

• Feeding of late preterm infants

• Monitoring growth in the neonatal unit

• Providing mother’s own milk (MOM) for preterm and ill term infants

• The role of human milk banks

• The role of nutrient supplements for preterm infants

• The role of preterm formula

• Written standards of nutritional practice

Download the full set of standards in the field of Education & training

• A common neonatal medical training curriculum

• A common neonatal nurse training curriculum

• Continuing professional development (CPD)

• Education programme supporting parents and families

• Evidence-based practice

• Interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional practice (IPP)

• Neonatal resuscitation training

• The role of simulation in education and training in neonatal care

Download the full set of standards in the field of Patient safety & hygiene practice

• Central venous catheter infection prevention

• Environmental hygiene in the NICU

• Hand hygiene

• Monitoring errors

• Nurse staffing in neonatal intensive care

• Patient safety and quality awareness in neonatal intensive care

• Patient screening for resistant bacteria

• Personal hygiene

• Prevention of medication errors in NICU patients

• Prevention of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC)

• Prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia

• Safe equipment use

• Threat, error and success reporting: How to effectively practice error management

• Vascular access

Download the full set of standards in the field of Infant- & family-centred developmental care 

• Case management and transition to home

• Clinical consultation and supervision for healthcare professionals on supporting families

• Education and training for infant- and family-centred developmental care (IFCDC)

• Family access

• Family support services

• Management of the acoustic environment

• Parental involvement

• Support for parental-infant bonding

• Supportive sensory environment

• Very early and continuous skin-to-skin contact

Download the full set of standards in the field of Care procedures 

• Inserting and managing feeding tubes

• Mouth care

• Nappy change

• Positioning support and comfort

• Promotion of breastfeeding

• Protecting sleep

• Skin care of hospitalised infants

• Support during painful procedures and pain assessment

• Supporting the infant during hygiene procedures

• Taking blood samples

• Temperature management in newborn infants

• Weighing