Newborn Care Skills. Acquire skills in infant care, safety, and health including breastfeeding, safe sleeping, and checkups.
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No prior knowledge required
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A newborn baby is an amazing life, full of beauty and hope. Unfortunately, many babies die or suffer preventable harm even in the 21st century. It is important that babies who are born healthy get a healthy start in the first month of life. There are easy-to-implement care principles that help ensure that babies and families get off to a healthy start, no matter where they are in the world. During this internship, learners will gain the skills needed to care for babies to maximize their health in the hours, days and weeks following birth.
Learners will build a deep understanding of infant care, through:
During this course, you will learn about some medical interventions and skills to keep newborns healthy in the days and weeks after birth. We will talk about medications like vitamin K and erythromycin and how they can prevent serious illnesses. We will also learn about screening tests like hearing tests and newborn blood tests that will help ensure that babies get the best start in life. We will start by talking about jaundice, and we will look at simple ways to identify and treat this common condition to prevent harm to babies.
A new baby is an amazing and hopeful life. There is so much to take care of to ensure that children are born healthy, and even more to consider after birth. If you work in healthcare, or even a parent, this course is the perfect learning opportunity for you to keep new babies healthy in the days and weeks after birth!
In your previous course, you learned about some medical interventions and skills to keep newborns healthy. In this course, you will learn about additional skills that medical providers use to keep babies healthy. The Newborn Assessment Course will guide you through a physical examination from head to toe. You will learn that much can be learned just by looking at your baby. And of course, we will also listen and discuss how medical equipment, such as a stethoscope or a pulse oximeter, can help with your examination. You will begin to differentiate between normal and abnormal findings.
A new baby is an amazing and hopeful life. There is so much to take care of to ensure that children are born healthy, and even more to consider after birth. If you work in healthcare, or even a parent, this course is the perfect learning opportunity for you to keep new babies healthy in the days and weeks after birth!
In your previous courses, you learned about some medical interventions and skills for keeping newborns healthy. In this course, you will learn key things parents need to do to keep their babies safe and healthy. The Guidelines for Keeping Newborns Safe and Healthy course will teach you the best practices for how your baby will spend most of his time: eating, sleeping, and sometimes crying. Parents need to understand how to maximize nutrition, create a safe and comfortable environment for sleep, safely transport your baby in the car, and how to respond to your baby’s cries.
A new baby is an amazing and hopeful life. There is so much to take care of to ensure that children are born healthy, and even more to consider after birth. If you work in healthcare, or even a parent, this course is the perfect learning opportunity for you to keep new babies healthy in the days and weeks after birth!
In this course you will learn about key components of supporting parents of new babies. The Parent Support for New Babies course will teach you the best practices for what to expect at the baby check-up and how to support parents, partners and other carers. The course covers postnatal depression, early bonding and touch. The course introduces the important role of supportive partners and parents, in different households, and what this support looks like. With every household being different, how can we provide support effectively as partners, fathers, co-parents, grandparents and other carers? For example, what are the special considerations for adoption? We will conclude the four-course specialization with a guest appearance by a new baby, and a life skills assessment conducted by the course instructor, Dr. Mary Cohen.
A new baby is an amazing and hopeful life. There is so much to take care of to ensure that children are born healthy, and even more to consider after birth. If you work in healthcare, or even a parent, this course is the perfect learning opportunity for you to keep new babies healthy in the days and weeks after birth!
Congratulations! You have progressed through all four Newborn Care courses, each focusing on different dimensions of maintaining the health of newborns in the first month of life. Now we come to a crucial part of your learning – the Newborn Care Final Project – Cases, which is your opportunity to take what you have learned and synthesize, integrate, and apply your knowledge in a series of cases. Interacting with these real-life scenarios will help you retain the content of the specialization and have you ready to apply it in your care environment.
Together, we will experience key moments from the courses, this time through the lens of cases. We will begin with the management of jaundice and the screening and assessments covered in Course 1. From there, we will examine cardiac and pulmonary cases that represent Course 2. We will then enter new territory, the first visit to the doctor after the baby has come home. Here you will integrate elements from Courses 3 and 4, assessing the baby and the primary care providers. No matter in what capacity you provide care to newborns, the experience of this final course will positively impact your understanding and your ability to put that understanding into practice. The babies, families, and other caregivers you interact with will greatly benefit from your cases.
A new baby is an amazing and hopeful life. There is so much to take care of to ensure that children are born healthy, and even more to consider after birth. If you work in healthcare, or even a parent, this course is the perfect learning opportunity for you to keep new babies healthy in the days and weeks after birth!
