Nursing Care of the Ventilated Infant

S.M. Donn and S.K. Sinha (eds.), Manual of Neonatal Respiratory Care, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-2155-9_77, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 I. As nurses spend 24 h per day with the newborn in an intensive care nursery, nursing care is essential to the eventual recovery and discharge of these fragile patients. II. History taking assists in focusing on an area while keeping the mind open to other possibilities. It is also important to know environmental and community/epidemiological impacts (e.g., onset of Respiratory Syncytial Virus season).