This temporary neonatal resource page has been created pending the formation of a new Neonatal ODN website which should be ready in 2023. All resources under the ODN sections on this page are approved by the ODN and are accessed by clicking the links below.

Neonatology

Neonatal Collapse

• ​SORT Guideline

​Nursing Guidelines, Pathways and Parent Leaflets (from Neonatal ODN website)

• Care of Chest Drains
• Nasal High Flow Therapy
• Suction
• Nursing care of CPAP/BiPhasic CPAP
• Prostaglandin Infusion
• Therapeutic Cooling Nursing
• Wound Care - under review
• Skin Integrity - under review
• ​Care of infant with oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula 
• Non-nutritive Sucking guideline / parent leaflet - under review
  
• NGT Feeding guideline
• NGT Feeding Learning Pack for parents
• Treating neonatal jaundice with phototherapy, including guidance on exchange transfusion - under review
• Insulin Infusion
• Care of a PVL
• Care of Central lines - CVL - under review
• Care of Umbilical Cord
• Cue based cares guideline and parent leaflets
• Consideration of Light - under review
• Mouth care - under review
• Noise - under review
• Optimal Cord Management
• Pain assessment, minimisation and management on the Neonatal Unit guideline / parent leaflet
• Perinatal Optimisation
• Positioning and Handling - under review
• Positive Touch
• Skin to Skin guideline / parent information booklet
• Taste and Smell guideline / parent information booklet - under review
• Environmental Humidification
• Palliative Care
• Spiritual Care
• Neonatal Discharge Planning
• Home Oxygen checklist
• Repatriation framework
• Documentation guidance

​​Clinical Guidelines, Pathways and Parent Leaflets (from Neonatal ODN website)

• Targeting Oxygen Saturations - under review
• TV Surfactant
• PDA in Preterm Infants
• Pulse Oximetry Screening
• Cardiac Care Pathway
• Cerebral Function Monitor (CFM) practical guideline
• Therapeutic Cooling Medical
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
• ROP Care Pathway
• ​ROP Guidance
• Surgical Care Pathway
• Wessex Care Pathway for Bilious Vomiting for Exclusion of Malrotation
• Wessex Nutritional Care of Infants
• Extremes of Prematurity
• Parent Info booklet extremely high risk or 20-21 wks gestation
• Parent Info. Booklet high risk or 22-24wks gestation
• Parent info booklet moderate risk or 25wks gestation
• TV Stabilisation and Resus of Baby <32 weeks
• Wessex Postnatal Ward​
• Transfers Infection Control
• Transfer Policy
  

​Congenital Hypothyroidism (and raised neonatal bloodspot TSH)

• Full Guideline

​Initial Management of a Baby with Atypical or Ambiguous Genitalia

• Full Guideline

​Management of Congenital CMV

• See Infectious Disease