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Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 73-77 (June 2010)


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Upgrading and Extending Existing Neonatal Intensive Care Facilities at Life Westville Hospital, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Ann Leslie, RNaemail address, Carole Kenner, DNS, RNC-NIC, FAANbCorresponding Author Informationemail address

Abstract 

Our world is shrinking due to computerized linkages and the mobility of society. Information is shared rapidly around the world. Issues surrounding newborn and infant nursing are global. In efforts to acknowledge the international community, each Newborn and Infant Nursing Review (NAINR) issue will feature a column that highlights care and educational-related issues from a featured country or region of the world. This article focuses on one example of a redesign of a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Newborn and infant health issues are global ones. To review issues occurring in different areas of the world, a different area of the globe will be featured that addresses NAINR's theme-oriented topic. This month, South Africa will be featured. Our guest author is Ann Leslie, RN, registered midwife, postgraduate certificate cardiovascular surgery, and intensive care nursing (Glasgow Royal Infirmary), treasurer of Neonatal Nursing Association of Southern Africa (NNASA). This month's article focuses on NICU design.

a Treasurer NNASA (Neonatal Nursing Association of Southern Africa), Life Westville Hospital, PO Box 502, Hillcrest, 3650, South Africa

b Northeastern University, President Council of International Neonatal Nurses, Inc., 102 Robinson Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115

Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Carole Kenner, DNS, RNC-NIC, FAAN, Northeastern University, President Council of International Neonatal Nurses, Inc., 102 Robinson Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115.

 From: Life Westville Hospital, Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, a member of the Life Healthcare Group of Hospitals.

PII: S1527-3369(10)00030-9

doi:10.1053/j.nainr.2010.03.005


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