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- Provide care for newborns from delivery room to discharge home.
- Attend newborn deliveries and follow NRP guidelines at birth.
- Provide breastfeeding education and assistance to new moms .
- Monitor neonates for signs and symptoms of distress and notify neonatologist or neonatal nurse practitioner as needed.
- Create customized care plans, working with hospital staff and families to assess and meet individual needs.
- Review and evaluate test results to suggest care and treatment options.
- Advocate for protocol of immediate skin to skin after delivery when infant medically stable.