Nursing Care for Newborn Health

Dear Colleagues,

Despite advances in neonatal medicine, almost 2.4 million newborns die annually, often from preventable causes. The heaviest burden is in low- and middle-income countries, where suboptimal infrastructure and staffing and inadequate resources can compromise the quality of care.

Nurses are often the first and most consistent point of contact for newborns and their families, providing monitoring, life-sustaining interventions, education, and compassionate support. However, the nursing workforce faces multiple challenges, including inadequate staffing, limited access to ongoing training, poor working conditions, and the undervaluation of their expertise.

We are pleased to invite you to submit research exploring the role of nursing in improving newborn outcomes. By highlighting evidence and experience from across diverse settings, this Special Issue will inform practice, influence policy, and highlight the challenges faced by nurses at the frontline of newborn health.

For this Special Issue, we welcome original research articles, implementation studies, quality improvement reports, and systematic and scoping reviews following recognized methodologies. We invite contributions that will advance the science and practice of neonatal nursing and challenge us to develop new models of care that are safe, equitable, and respectful of every newborn’s right to survive and thrive.

Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Innovations in neonatal nursing care and technology;
• Family-centered and developmentally supportive care in neonatal nursing care;
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of neonatal nursing interventions;
• Palliative care and neonatal nursing;
• Cultural challenges and considerations in neonatal nursing care;
• Nursing interventions in low-resource or humanitarian settings;
• Strategies for strengthening the neonatal nursing workforce;
• Training, mentoring, and professional development models;
• Nursing roles in the identification and management of newborn complications;
• Human rights, ethics, and equity in neonatal nursing care.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Alan Richard Horn
Dr. Welma Lubbe
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• neonatal nursing
• newborn health
• quality of care
• family-centered care
• neonatal intensive care
• nursing workforce
• developmentally supportive care