Volume 10, Issue 2
Page 16
NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Team Spotlight of the Month
Has your ward completed any fundraising or have you received donations that have been used towards helping improve your area?
The “Humpty Dumpty Foundation” supports us very well and is the reason we have such modern equipment. We have a great partnership and we thank them for their continued support. “Food from the Heart” provides breakfast and snacks for our parents. They also provide hot meals donated by local restaurants so that parents do not have to leave their babies to seek out food.
Festive raffles to raise money for the NICU:
“Life’s Little Treasures” donated many books to fill our NICU Parent Library after we won the 2020 “Read-a-thon” for most hours read by parents to their babies. Parents spend long days in the NICU and reading to their baby supports bonding and the babies’ neurodevelopment.
How many staff do you have that are completing further studies?
Many of our nurses have completed neonatal intensive care specific post-grad studies from Graduate Certificate to Masters Level. We currently have 5 nurses undertaking post graduate Certificates or Diplomas in Advanced Nursing with neonatal specialty, both through ACNN & UTAS. We also have 1 nurse undertaking a Master’s degree in Advanced Nursing through UTS, with a neonatal speciality.
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