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Unit 10: Essential Newborn Care and Newborn Resuscitation

Overview

This unit explains the main causes of newborn deaths, challenges for newborn care in humanitarian settings, and essential newborn care.

Objectives

By the end of this unit, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss the main causes of newborn deaths and challenges for newborn care in humanitarian settings.
  • Explain essential newborn care.
  • Perform newborn resuscitation using a bag and a mask.

Timing & Methodology

Total: 240 minutes (4 hours)

  • 10 minutes: Role Play and Group Discussion
  • 15 minutes: Facilitator Presentation and OPTIONAL Skills Practice: Blood Pressure Measurement
  • 20 minutes: Paired Role Play Activity
  • 40 minutes: Demonstration and Skills Practice: Preparing and Administering Magnesium Sulfate
  • 10 minutes: Video and Discussion: Severe Pre-Eclampsia
  • 10 minutes: Facilitator Presentation and Group Discussion: Antihypertensives
  • 60 minutes: Clinical Simulation and Debrief
  • 75 minutes: Continued Skills Practice

Preparation

  • Print, download, and gather materials.
  • Prepare workstations for Demonstration and Skills Practice sites and three Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) as detailed in the Facilitator’s Guide.

Resources Available Online

Jul 16, 2021

Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) Forms for the Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Crisis Settings: Select Signal Functions S-CORT

IAWG Training Partnership Initiative, Jhpiego

These three Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) forms are used to assess clinical service providers’ skills during the following practice sessions included in the Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Crisis Settings: Select Signal Functions S-CORT: bimanual compression of the uterus, newborn resuscitation, and pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.

Guidelines, Technical Resources
Updated Jul 12, 2021

Helping Babies Breathe at Birth

Global Health Media

A newborn who doesn’t breathe at birth needs help immediately. This video, using live footage, shows the basic steps of newborn resuscitation using the internationally renowned Helping Babies Breathe guidelines.