Neonatal ICU
 

Located on the fifth floor of the Second Medical Building, this ICU with 18 beds provides emergent and critical care for premature infants born before 34 weeks of gestation, term infants within four months old and premature infants aged 5 months or less. The unit typically takes care of infants with respiratory distress syndrome, newborns weighing less than 1,500 grams, infants with congenital heart diseases or unstable vital signs and postoperative infants. Neonatal Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) is implemented in the unit, including light and sound control, interventions such as touch and positioning, stabilizing visual, aural and somesthesia and nervous motion system for premature infants, encouragement for infants' family members to participate in caring for the infants, reduction of harmful stimuli and the provision of appropriate opportunities for development for the purpose of achieving an integrated state of infant care. In addition, staff in the unit have participated in the activity of Health Quality Improvement Circle (HQIC) since 2005 and has developed creative instruments one after another. Furthermore staff of the unit has taken part in various competitions and won different prizes, such as nasal prong respirator straps in 2009, preterm infants decubitus aids in 2010, Kangaroo clothing in 2011 and newborn eyeshades in 2012, which have all been applied in clinical settings for implementing the family-centered care.