To become a neonatal nurse, you must start out as a registered nurse and complete a couple of years to receive credible training. To obtain a title as registered nurse you must get certified and have a license. “Some facilities hire new graduates; others require a year of adult health or medical/surgical nursing. The facilities also dictate requirements for clinical skills, including your ability to give medications, do math calculations, start and maintain I.V. lines, perform CPR, manage ventilators, and provide such routine care as suctioning and tube feedings.” (Career Focus) The years as a registered nurse are extremely crucial because this is where your foundation will be set. The information you learn during that certain time is only the beginning. If you want to reach a neonatal nurse practitioner level, you must obtain a Masters in Science of Nursing and complete a residency at a qualifying hospital. At the end of your residency you will be required to take a board exam where you either make it or break it. This lets you seek out a career as a NNP or does not. Being that lives in literally in your hands, the jobs can eventually become