Elements and Performance Criteria
- Admit new arrivals to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
- Provide nursing care for recumbent foals
- Provide respiratory support and perform emergency ventilation for foals
- Assemble crash kit items
- Prepare and administer enteral and parenteral nutrition to impaired foals in NICU
- Prepare parenteral medications
- Implement routine industry standard infection controls in a foal NICU.
- Aseptic techniques and strict hygiene protocol are maintained for the NICU.
- Regular ongoing hygienic maintenance of the floor, counter, cabinets and stalls is performed.
- Routine daily checks to specialist equipment are completed.
- Critically ill and/or infected foals are isolated and strict sanitary procedures are observed.
- Provide routine care for mare in NICU.
- Discharge foals from NICU.