The Importance Of Being A Neonatal Nurse

Being a Neonatal Nurse requires a lot of interaction with people. You interact with babies along with their parents and doctors verbally and non-verbally. Communicating non-verbally in the nursing field is widely embraced. Being a nurse, you develop a relationship with your patients. Your body language is important when it comes to speaking with your patients. Paralanguage, the way in which you say words, is just important as the way you mean it. When approaching your patient, your facial expression is the richest source of emotional information. On page 115 of Communicating Effectively: 10th Edition, it says, “Your face transmits happiness, friendliness, warmth, liking, and affiliation; thus, it pays to smile frequently. By smiling you will be perceived as more likable, friendly, warm, and approachable.” Even on your worst day, continue smiling. Your patients doesn’t need to know how bad your day is going. Your attitude along with your manners are also important when dealing with your patients. Coming off rude is unacceptable. Even if your patient is the rudest person you’ve ever met, you always, address them and their family nicely.
Well nurses are constantly in their patient’s space. This is because, we have to take care of our patients. We have to make sure they feel welcomed. Let them know that we care about them and their new born baby. Another thing that neonatal nurses often do is touch. Having to deal with a first time mother requires neonatal nurses to help them out on how to breast feed or even hold a child properly. This is why most mothers rather have a female neonatal nurse rather than a male because they’re more comfortable with females because they all have the same body