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Search Results: MCH Organizations

This list of organizations is drawn from the MCH Organizations Database. Contact information is the most recent known to the MCH Digital Library.

Displaying records 1 through 2 (2 total).

National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN)

Annotation: The National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) serves as a forum for continuing education and information exchange, and it promotes legislation to improve neonatal nursing and health care for newborns and their families. Their services to consumers include referrals and reference information. NANN publishes a newsletter and journal, and sponsors conferences and training seminars.

Keywords: Infant health, Continuing education, Health services, Neonatal intensive care, Neonatal nursing, Newborn infants

Physical and Developmental Environment of the High-Risk Infant

Annotation: The Physical and Developmental Environment of the High-Risk Infant is a national resource center conducting an organized, systematic study and analysis of infant intensive care practices and environmental factors. The center receives support from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and National Institute of Nursing Research. The center seeks to expand the use of environmental factors, care practices, and social interventions that are beneficial and appropriate and to identify those that are detrimental to the infant's physiological stability, recovery, and long-term outcome. Services to consumers include publications and reference information. The organization publishes a newsletter and sponsors conferences.

Keywords: High risk infants, Neonatal intensive care
   

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