Essential Newborn Care Course
Second edition
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Overview ENCC second edition
Using the Circle of Learning and Improvement, the Essential Newborn Care Course (ENCC) aims to build competencies that save lives and help all newborns reach their full potential.
What is new in the second edition?
Transforming standards into care
- Incorporating guidance from recent WHO recommendations
- Addressing global gaps in care
- Including links to key references and resources
Applying contemporary educational methods
- Active learning and skills mastery through simulation and clinical practice
- Facility-based education to promote inter-professional engagement
- Flexible content to meet learning needs
- Flexible format, both print and digital Flexible learning agenda and timeline - concentrated or distributed over time
- Videos to model interventions and behaviours
Adding quality improvement
- Clinical practice with newborns
- Quality improvement template to identify gaps and solutions
- Use of local data to check for improvement
- Focus on sustained improvement
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Adding quality improvement-clinical practice in newborn health - plan, do, study, act
Adding quality improvement-clinical practice in newborn health - plan, do, study, act
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Quality of care-adding quality improvement to clinical practice in newborn health
Quality of care-adding quality improvement to clinical practice in newborn health
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Who can benefit from ENCC second edition?
ENCC is designed for all health workers who care for newborns:
- Midwives
- Nurses
- Physicians (medical officers, pediatricians, obstetricians)
- All other cadres including community health workers with newborn care in their scope of practice.
Interprofessional education in ENCC sessions strengthens communication and teamwork. ENCC can be used in both inservice (refresher and orientation) and pre-service (nursing, midwifery, medical) education.
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Nursing students at the Muhimbili School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tanzania
Nursing students at the Muhimbili School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tanzania
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What materials are part of ENCC second edition?
Essential Newborn Care 1
Immediate Care and Helping Babies Breathe at Birth
The first 60 minutes after birth
Essential Newborn Care 2
Assessment and Continuing Care
From 60-90 minutes to discharge from the facility and first month
Action Plans – Pictorial wall charts that provide the
evaluation/decision/action framework for providing care.
Facilitator
Flipcharts –
Images make concepts visible to participants and key messages guide
facilitators.
Provider
Guides –
Participant resource for practice during a course, just-in-time refresher
learning, and ideas for changes to improve care.
Simulation
Practice Cards – Group practice simulations for continued building of
skills and teamwork.
Parent Guide – Pictorial chart or
handout to emphasize key messages for continuing essential newborn care at
home.
Modules
Each module explores important steps of care through:
- Interactive slide sets with notes to guide active learning - Demonstrations and hands-on practice, simulations, questions and discussion, videos for examination of the evidence behind recommendations
- Clinical practice to build skills and observe routine care in the facility
- Quality improvement activities to identify gaps in care and prioritise improvement aims.
Three cross-cutting modules addresses the foundation for quality in all newborn care:
- Communication and respectful care
- Infection prevention for newborns
- Data collection and use
Ten thematic modules explore specific issues:
- Care at birth and in the first hour
- Examination of the newborn
- Feeding
- Special care of small newborns
How can the materials be used to meet learning needs?
- Flexible components allow organisers and facilitators to select the content that the participants need.
- Courses are held in the health facility or where newborn care is provided.
- Flexible learning agendas allow concentrated sessions over one to three days, or distributed sessions over weeks or months.
- Materials can be used in digital format for laptops or mobile phones and in print.
- The educational materials can be adapted to all contexts where newborns are cared for including fragile settings, conflict, humanitarian situations, and hard-to-reach settings.
Useful resources
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