NANN is a community of registered nursing professionals who care for infants born with a variety of health challenges and surgical problems.

Through our comprehensive member resources, including educational initiatives, professional development opportunities, and advocacy efforts, NANN works to advance the care of neonates and their families by supporting neonatal nurses and advanced practice nurses like you.

Neonatal Nurses Week provides an opportunity to celebrate the hard work and dedication of neonatal nurses and APRNs. The contributions of these health care workers to the tiniest patients make a difference that lasts a lifetime for neonates and their families.

From our beginnings in California in 1984 to nearly 8,000 members strong and over 30 local chapters, the National Association of Neonatal Nurses is proud to stand behind the tens of thousands of neonatal nurses and advanced practice registered nurses around the world providing care to the most vulnerable patients.

Set the standards for neonatal APRN roles, education, and practice through meticulously reviewed publications. Receive national representation in the L.A.C.E. work group, the American Academy of Pediatrics , and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties .

Neonatal nursing is a subspecialty of nursing that works with newborn infants born with a variety of problems ranging from prematurity, birth defects, infection, cardiac malformations, and surgical problems.

NANN Chapters NANN chapters play an important role in the association's efforts by providing services and support for more than 2,000 members at the grassroots level. You must be a current NANN member to join a chapter. If you're not yet a NANN membe...

As “the professional voice that shapes neonatal nursing care,” NANN strives to provide the support you need to advance your practice and bring the best outcomes to your vulnerable patients and their families.

Neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs) provide holistic, family-centered, child-focused care in the preventative, restorative, chronic, and palliative spheres for patients from birth at any gestation to age 2.

Since the mid 1970s neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs), previously known as neonatal nurse clinicians, have demonstrated their value in the provision of health care to high-risk infants and their families. Requirements for education, licensure, accreditation, and certification of NNPs