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Editorial on Neonatal Nursing

Sakinala Sowmya

Neonatal nursing may be a sub-specialty of medical care for newborn infants up to twenty-eight days after birth. The term neonatal comes from neo, "new", and natal, "pertaining to birth or origin". Neonatal nursing requires a high degree of skill, dedication, and emotional strength because the nurses look after newborn infants with a variety of problems, varying between prematurity, birth defects, infection, cardiac malformations and surgical problems