Interprofessional Education and Practice: The Call for an Interprofessional Approach to Improve the Quality of Neonatal Care

Our world is shrinking due to computerized linkages and the mobility of society. Information is shared rapidly around the world. Issues surrounding newborn and infant nursing are global. In efforts to acknowledge the international community, each Newborn and Infant Nursing Review (NAINR) issue will feature a column that highlights care related issues from a featured country or region of the world. Newborn and infant health issues are global ones. To review issues occurring in different areas of the world, a different area of the globe will be featured that addresses NAINR's theme-oriented topic. This month Japan will be featured. Our guest author is Ms. Wakako Eklund who is a neonatal nursing crusader and a Regional Network Contact for the Council of International Neonatal Nurses (COINN) for Japan. This month's article focuses on the call for an interprofessional approach to improve the quality of neonatal care. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.