Clinical Practice Products Focus on NICU Nursing Education

Get the education needed to be a NICU nurse and grow and advance your career. NANN’s clinical practice products are foundational for NICU nursing positions—neonatal staff nurses, nurse managers, and advanced practice registered nurses—in NICUs all over the world.

These neonatal nursing resources and tools enhance the practical, hands-on skills and knowledge you need to provide effective patient care. They include clinical practice guidelines, core curriculums, policies, procedures, and competencies, resource guides, quick-reference cards, and an online learning module.

These evidence-based products help you apply theoretical knowledge in real-world clinical settings—improving clinical decision-making, patient assessment, and intervention techniques, ensuring that you are well-prepared to handle the complexities of patient care with confidence and competence.

Some clinical practice products offer continuing education (CE) credits, too!

Neonatal Care Curriculum and Guidelines:

NANN’s curriculum texts teach neonatal nursing in a structured way to guide learners through the material in a logical manner, ensuring that students gain a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter. Clinical guidelines from NANN focus on specific aspects of neonatal nursing, using the literature to find evidence to inform best practices.

Practice Standards in Neonatal Transport, Fourth Edition

NANN published earlier editions as Neonatal Transports: Guidelines for Nursing Practice in 1994, 1998, and 2010 in response to its members’ recognition that care could be improved for critically ill newborns through the implementation of endorsed practice standards developed by nursing experts involved in neonatal transport. This new fourth edition includes areas not addressed in previous versions e.g., the historical evolution and necessity of transport, accreditation processes, levels of perinatal care, various types of transports, digital platforms for documentation, and the incorporation of outcome metrics into a transport program.

Core Curriculum for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing, 6th Edition

Get in-depth coverage of common neonatal disorders and their management. This publication highlights the essentials of each condition including definition, etiology, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments, and outcomes.

Policies, Procedures, and Competencies for Neonatal Nursing Care, 6th Edition

Policies, procedures, and competencies are the foundation of patient care and drive nursing practice. This sixth edition helps advance an organization’s commitment to evidence-based nursing and provides a strong support to neonatal nurses and neonatal nurse practitioners as they seek to give the highest quality of care to their vulnerable patients.

Newborn Safe Sleep Guideline

NANN’s Newborn Safe Sleep Guideline is the only clinical practice guideline that addresses the challenges of implementing safe sleep practices in the hospital setting and includes recommendations on how to do so effectively for children between birth and 1 year of age. This guideline is supported by Pampers, part of the Procter & Gamble Family.

Neonatal Skin Care Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline, 4th Edition

Newborn skin care practices have the potential to impact skin for many years. New recommendations based on current research focus on appropriate skin care practices for term and preterm newborns. Expanded topics include bathing, atopic dermatitis and emollients, management of diaper dermatitis, intravenous extravasation, parent education, and product selection considerations.

Newborn Pain Assessment and Management Guideline for Practice, 3rd Edition

This updated outline captures pain assessment and management practices that are accepted and documented by experts in neonatal care. Recommendations and rationale for infant nursing care reflect the best evidence available on the assessment and management of pain in hospitalized preterm and full-term newborns.

Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters: Guidelines for Practice, 4th Edition

This updated fourth edition provides essential information for healthcare providers in the NICU, whether they are placing PICC lines or caring for infants who have a PICC.

Infant-Directed Oral Feeding for Premature and Critically Ill Hospitalized Infants

This guideline offers evidence-based protocols that can be individualized to an infant’s abilities (infant-directed) and acknowledge the family as the primary caregiver and feeder (family-centered). Guidance is provided for nurses to help parents interpret infant cues during feeding, problem solve infant behavior issues, and explore interventions to support the infant’s self-regulation throughout feedings.

Neonatal Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition: A Resource Guide for the Student and Novice Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

This revised guideline is targeted to student Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (NNPs) and the advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) as well as neonatal nurses to aid in understanding and rationale behind parenteral nutrition and the use of human milk for neonatal patients. Guidelines have been updated with the current recommendations from ESPGHAN, ESPEN, ESPR and CSPEN guidelines on parenteral nutrition as well as the most current evidence-based literature.

Thermoregulation in the Care of Infants Guideline for Practice

Provide appropriate thermal support/regulation in a variety of settings. Using the most current evidence-based research, the practice guideline provides direction for implementing best practices in the thermal management of the pre-term, term, and post-term infant.

NICU Resources in Nursing:

Neo-Care Cards

Neo-Care Cards™ provide valuable information for bedside care in a concise, accessible format. You’ll find conversion and calculation charts, anatomical diagrams of circulation pathways, and information on care of extremely-low-birth-weight and very-low-birth-weight infants, chest-tube insertion, changing and maintaining peripherally inserted central catheters, and kangaroo care. These vinyl cards are connected with a small metal ring to make them easy to carry, access and clean.

Infant Safe Sleep Prompt Deck

NANN, with the support of Pampers, part of the P&G family, developed this deck as part of the Pampers Safe Sleep Initiative. This educational tool reinforces NANN’s Safe Sleep Guidelines. Used by neonatal nurses to educate caregivers, the cards outline the Safe Sleep Guidelines and their importance.

NICU Rescue: Escape Rooms

Looking for a new way to test your team’s NICU knowledge while building connections? Our downloadable Escape Room toolkits offer ready-to-use scenarios that reinforce key neonatal topics through engaging, time-based challenges. Themes like “Wizard of Oz” for thermoregulation and “Marilyn Monroe” for neonatal resuscitation create a fun, immersive environment where moderators guide players through clinical questions and obstacles. With guidelines, materials lists, and pre-made content included, these toolkits are ready to bring interactive learning to your unit.
Download your Escape Room toolkit now.

Online Learning for Clinical Practice:

Understanding Clinical Research

This self-paced learning module will familiarize you with the principles of conducting and using research. The module is divided into five sections: Foundations of Research, Research Design and Measurement, Statistical Analysis, Review of a Research Article, and Application of Learning.