Odile Frauenfelder MSc

Odile Frauenfelder started her nursing career in 1982, after graduation as a general nurse she specialised in the field of maternity and child’s care. Her first experience in neonatal care was in 1989 at the level 3 NICU of the Academic VU Hospital in Amsterdam. She worked there from 1989 till the end of 1992 as a neonatal nurse.

In 1993 she started working as a senior nurse at the NICU of the Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam. This NICU is the largest level 3+ NICU in the Netherlands and also a NIDCAP certificated unit. In 2001 Odile Frauenfelder started working as a neonatal nurse practitioner on the same unit. In 2003 she received her Master Degree in Advanced Nursing Practice.

Her interests as a neonatal nurse practitioner lie primarily in the care of extreme preterm infants, not restricted to the medical and nursing care but also to the care of the parents during their stay at the NICU.