ASSESSMENT OF NEONATAL CARE PRACTICES OF NURSES IN SELECTED TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH-EASTERN, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

Neonatal period comprises the first 28days of life. During this period, newborns are non verbal very vulnerable, and unable to actively participate in the patient identification process which increases the likelihood of neonatal morbidity and mortality.(National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN), 2014). Globally neonatal mortality rate fell by 40% between 1990 and 2013- from 33 to 20 deaths per 1,000 live births. Over the same period the number of newborn babies who died within the first 28days of life declined from 4.7million to 2.8million. (United Nations Children's Fund,(UNICEF),2014), About half of under-five deaths occur in only five countries: China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. India (21%) and Nigeria (13%) together account for more than a third of all under-five deaths. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest neonatal mortality rate (32 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2012) and accounts for 38 percent of global neonatal deaths. World Health Org...