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Hello everyone, As a long-time neonatal nurse and advanced practitioner with roots in Oxford and footprints across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, I’ve finally found the courage to share part of my journey publicly. I recently wrote a piece titled: “From Canvas Cots to Clinical Leadership”, reflecting on 30+ years of neonatal work — from rural clinics and transitional wards to advanced NICUs and global QIPs. It touches on: Building leadership without formal authority Lessons from setting up family-centred models of care Navigating international systems, illness, and personal resilience And remembering why we began this journey in the first place I thought it might reso…

Any of the neonatologists and nurse practitioners and RT with NICU experience interested to teach for a non profit organization in low-middle income countries? If so, please contact me for details. Your trip will be sponsored. tradingkabbur@gmail.com Thanks

… and a happy new year! it is always good to know, that there is a neonatology-community out there, that one could ask for help or just chat about anything! Thank you! To a great 2024! best wishes bernhard

As you may recall, we planned our IRL #99nicuMeetup in April 2020, in Vienna, but had to cancel due to the Covid pandemic. Find that program attached We have now started to think about running this event 15-17 Sept 2022 (and pre/post workshops 14th and/or 18th). Please note that we have not set a definite date, we have no venue, we have not decided about location etc-etc. We just feel we want to meet up IRL again What do you think about all this? How/where/when would you like to attend? Please also share your thoughts on the previous program, and feel free to share your thoughts on topics/speakers/workshops etc-etc! Program.pdf

I just realized that UpToDate is "open-access" in Norway. So, with a VPN-tunnel through Norway, it is possible to browse UpToDate as "logged in". Just something I wanted to share here in the Lounge 😎

Three years ago, if one had asked me what I would do if I "won the lottery", I would have wanted to continue to practice Neonatology. Over the past three years, my career has been increasingly about administrative duties. I still maintain the same clinical time which is 1.5 FTEs (full time equivalents). October of this year, we added a new EMR/CPOE. And...of course, the pandemic. I am ashamed to write this, but hopefully my experience will help others. I have burn out. I wasn't even aware of it. I needed a sort of "intervention" by other physicians to point out that I was in fact suffering from, and exhibiti…

One of the oldest forums for neonatal staff has to close because yahoo is discontinuing the groups feature. Would be nice to welcome some of the people from that group in our forum! I am sure they would settle in quickly and would love joining our discussions. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/nicu-net/conversations/messages

99nicu is officially opened! ...after plenty of configuration work and beta testing. Please feel free to spread the word about this community for professionals in neonatal medicine! Looking forward to read your discussions here at 99nicu! Stockholm, 11th of May 2006 99nicu Team

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.today.com/today/amp/tdna149605 Original paper in Science: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6430/eaau0780 Comments/thoughts?