The book presents developmental care in terms of holistic awareness of infant and family and their interactions with the NICU environment. It offers a framework for providing care that protects and supports the neurobehavioral development of the infant using an interdisciplinary approach.

In short, Developmental Care of Newborns and Infants, 3rd Edition is the definitive guide for learning current care standards, and the ideal foundation for neonatal nurses, students, and NICU nurses.

In this new edition:

• New and fully updated content and practice guidelines
• New practice standards from the European Foundation for Infants and Newborn Children
• New content aligned with the findings of the Gravens Task Force standards for high-risk newborns
• New color-enhanced photographs of infants

• The science of infant- and family-centered developmental care including the history and principles
• Infant- and family-centered care standards for NICU
• Healthcare team collaboration, including the family
• Theoretical perspective for individualized family-centered developmental care (IFCDC)
• Quality indicators for developmental care - trauma-informed conceptual model
• Infant mental health - essential strategies for social-emotional care of NICU families
• The structures and processes of critical periods of fetal development
• The NICU sensory environment
• Collaborative therapeutic positioning - multisystem and behavioral implications
• The high-risk infant - oral feeding, touch and massage, pain assessment and nonpharmacologic management, palliative care
• Developmental care beyond the NICU
• Expert guidance from physiology of embryonic and fetal development through to coordinated, interdisciplinary IFCDC care

About the Clinical Editors

Carole Kenner, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, ANEF, is Carol Kuser Loser Dean and Professor at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, New Jersey, and Chief Executive Officer of the Council of International Neonatal Nurses, Inc. (COINN) in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

Jacqueline M. McGrath, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, is Thelma and Joe Crow Endowed Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty Excellence at the School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas.