types of nurses?

Question

i want to become a nurse who takes care of the newborn babies in the hospital, is there a specific name for that?

Answer 1

In hospital setting you can either be a "Nursery Nurse" or a "Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Nurse".Both takes care of the newborn.

As a nursery nurse, you will have fun caring for all newborns who are generally healthy. However, some hospital settings have their Nursery as part of the Obstetric Department. So you will be then have to be an Obstetric Nurse and will be assigned in Nursery section usually as a rotational basis. So you will be taking care not only the newborns but the pospartum mothers as well while you are in such Department. Some setting has their Nursery Department a separate unit so you will take care all of the newborns while you are there.

A NICU nurse cares for newborns in critical situations. They are newborns with various problems that requires an intensive care so it would be a bit challenging. A nurse will be required to have some special training to work in this unit.

In out of the hospital setting there is something called "Newborn Nurse". The work is to take care of newborns on housecalls basis.

Anyway, concentrate in your studies to be a nurse first. You will have an all around training which will give you a great opportunity to have some choices of whatever kind of a nurse is nearest to your heart.

I would tell you however, as a new nurse, sometimes it is not the choice of to where you have to be. It sometimes depends on opportunities available in front of you. Once you become a qualified nurse, have a training in the special area of your choice and be a nurse of your dreams.

Good luck!

Answer 2

You can be a neonatal nurse, but in many hospital maternity units, nurses care for both the mother and the baby. As a pediatrician, I am quite biased. I think these are some of the finest creatures on God's green earth. You could work in a newborn intensive care unit, caring for premature and other infants with major problems. This is more stressful, and requires a lot of dedication.

The best nurses, and there are many, have a lot of inner strength. We need more of them. Good luck.

Answer 3

Yes definately
you should do a midwifery on top of your RN training

I think there are also paediatric nurses. Im not sure which take care of babies though. My mum used to do that job when she was a young nurse and she loved it so good luck!

Answer 4

basically you'd be a ob-gyn/obstretician nurse.all nurses take the same training and then go to departments that they are interested in if there is an opening.some depts. may require further training but that isn't a problem.