NANN Member Center

NANN - Your Neonatal Connection

The National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) is the professional voice that shapes neonatal nursing through excellence in practice, education, research, and professional development. NANN is home to neonatal nurses who are interested in a professional model of practice, at any stage in their careers. Through NANN, you have access to unmatched resources that will help you provide the best nursing care to your patients and their families. Join today and become part of the NANN community!

Free Resources for NANN Members

As a NANN member, you receive access to a number of free resources:

• Feeding Your Baby (video) from the Cleft Palate Foundation.
• Milestone Guidelines for Premature Babies (guide for families),
  English & Spanish
• Pain Assessment and Management: Guideline for Practice, second edition: This valuable guideline outlines pain assessment and management practices that are accepted and documented by experts in neonatal care and are based on best evidence for infant nursing care. Although broad in scope, this guideline provides a foundation for specific nursing protocols, policies, and procedures that were developed by individual institutions. Published in 2008; reviewed in May 2010.
• Instructions for Writing Clinical Practice Guidelines: This tool, prepared by NANN's Research Committee, is available for use by NANN members involved in writing clinical practice guidelines. You will be prompted to log in to our Members-Only area in order to access this resource. Published in 2009.
• ABCs of Genetics: A Self-Study Course, second edition: This publication outlines the basic principles of human genetics and helps the reader understand genetic inheritance patterns and the common neonatal conditions that have genetic underpinnings. The outline format provides the information in a concise, accessible manner, and figures effectively illustrate the material. Practice tests appear throughout to help the reader learn the concepts; answers are provided.
• Education Standards and Curriculum Guidelines for Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Programs: This publication defines the minimum standards necessary for educating a neonatal nurse practitioner and can be used in conjunction with other accreditation or review tools for evaluating existing NNP educational programs or developing new programs in order to ensure that graduating NNPs receive appropriate instruction to function at the novice level. It can also be used as a self-study tool for existing NNP programs. Published in 2009.
• Family Teaching Toolbox: This compendium of articles for families is taken from issues of Advances in Neonatal Care, the journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses.
• CNE Now! : This series of online learning modules--free to all NANN members--reinforces essential knowledge on topics in neonatal nursing care in an engaging format that includes information on physiology and pathophysiology, management strategies, ways to involve parents and families, and areas for further research, along with clinical practice pearls and a crossword puzzle as a learning assessment tool. CNE Now! is supported in part by GE Healthcare.

Additional Member Benefits

• Online access to current and past issues of NANN's official journal, Advances in Neonatal Care
  • Discount coupon for CE articles
• Professional liability insurance is available to NANN members, along with plans for group term-life, disability, major medical, short-term medical, and cancer care insurance. Call 800.503.9230 and ask for information about insurance plans for NANN members.