This course will prepare the student to work with healthy and sick neonatal babies and other neonatal complications. The major focus is the healthy neonate, development, care and nutrition. Concepts explored are: child health promotion strategies, and high-risk situations, which include the common neonatal disorders. The care of pre-term babies and the problems associated with pre-term birth are also a focus. The student will be able to assess the newborn babies based on apgar score and other physical assessment measures, identify newborn babies who are in need for resuscitation, to recognize some abnormalities such as spinal bifida, cleft lip, hydrocephalus ..etc and to differentiate between physiological and pathological jaundice
