This one-day conference will be held on the last day of the 34th Annual NIDCAP Trainers Meeting and is open to anyone interested in learning about NIDCAP Care. NIDCAP Trainers, Professionals and Supporters of NIDCAP Care from around the world will convene to discuss issues around optimizing preterm and term infant care through the NIDCAP approach.

Our focus this year will be on supporting and sustaining systems change in newborn and infant intensive care units. Physicians, scientists, nurses, and family organization leaders from around the world have been invited to speak. Continuing education credits will be available for RNs.

The conference will be a hybrid format.  We look forward to seeing you whether in person or virtually!

5th World NIDCAP Day,
20 March 2023

Every day, the NIDCAP Federation International, its NIDCAP Training Centers, and their NIDCAP Trainers and NIDCAP Trained Professionals and Supporters strive to improve the experience of newborns and families in hospitals all over the world. World NIDCAP Day (WND) is an opportunity to recognize these efforts and build awareness of the importance of providing NIDCAP care for hospitalized infants and their families. We will be celebrating the entire month of March.

See our World NIDCAP Day page for more information about the day, the WND toolkit, and ideas for how you and your nursery or community can join in spreading awareness of NIDCAP Care. Check the page regularly for updates on the WND activities that will happen during March.

Heidelise Als Commemorative Issue

In honor of Dr. Heidelise Als’ Birthday, November 8, we present to you a Commemorative Issue of the Developmental Observer, Vol. 15, No. 3.

This issue includes all the inspirational articles that Heidi wrote for past issues of the Developmental Observer. In addition, the issue is full of beautiful tributes to her from many NFI members, her National NIDCAP Training Center team, and other friends and colleagues across the globe, plus much more.

Twenty years ago, the NIDCAP Federation International (NFI) was founded as a membership and educational certifying non-profit organization (501c3)

Introducing the Family Resource Series

The NFI introduces its Family Resource Series – a series of videos produced, with support from Dräger, to support parents who have a premature or medically fragile baby in the hospital. NIDCAP trainers and NICU graduate parents answer questions that are frequently asked by families that have babies in an intensive care setting.

Click here for the press release

Watch on the Learning Center page

EFCNI recognizes the NFI’s NIDCAP Nursery Program as a Lighthouse Project

The NFI is pleased to announce that the EFCNI has recognized the NIDCAP Nursery Program as a Lighthouse Project. The EFCNI promotes their Lighthouse Projects as outstanding projects which are exemplary in their respective field of newborn health. Our initiative has been described and published as a guest article. It can be found on the EFNCI/European Standards of Care for Newborn Health Lighthouse Projects page.