Baby Nurse Certified Newborn Specialist

Newborn care specialist association the ncsa was founded in 2006 as an industry association and certification entity for newborn care specialists newborn nannies and infant sleep consultants.

Baby nurse certified newborn specialist.

Although there are certification programs a newborn care specialist is not a registered nurse and certification is optional. Upgrading your qualifications and techniques as an educated caregiver. Many of happy newborns infant care specialists have an ncsa newborn care specialist certification the gold standard in baby nurse certification eagerly offering clear common sense information on optimal early parenting based on their extensive training and experience. You may find that some agencies and families may still choose to refer to a newborn care specialist as a baby nurse.

Current and unrestricted rn license in the state of california. Similar to a nanny a newborn care specialist is hired by parents to perform everyday care duties for the baby such as feeding changing bathing and sleep training. Preparation and cleaning of bottles and feeding your infant. Extensive training in skin to skin breastfeeding and mother baby bonding.

Development of your infant s sleep schedule and ensuring he or she is getting proper rest. Completion of a ncsa approved newborn care specialist course with gentle ventures. Taking care of your infant overnight so that you can sleep. For over 12 years ict academy has been a national leader in the development of best practice training certification and continuing education for newborn care specialists also known as baby nurses and nanny care professionals.

A certified newborn care specialist is someone trained to manage the care of newborn babies. With over 20 years experience with preemies newborns infants twins veronica hinojosa stang is an accomplished newborn care specialist in los angeles. Newborn specialist is a non medical infant caregiver and is the most recent term used to describe a newborn care professional or newborn nanny. Baby nurse is no longer used formally partly because you do not need to be a medically trained licensed or registered nurse to work as a newborn care specialist although we do have many medically trained cnas hhas lpns and rns who enroll in our courses and work as private professional newborn care professionals.

Veronica baby nurse and doula services 310 365 8042. A newborn care specialist will help you with. The purpose of the maternal newborn nursing core certification is to provide a competency based examination that tests specialty knowledge and the application of that knowledge for licensed registered nurses in the us and canada with a minimum of two years specialty experience in providing care to the childbearing family from birth to six weeks within hospital or outpatient settings. You may also hear a ncs referred to as a newborn nanny night nanny or infant specialist.