Foundations of Contemporary Neonatal Care (Level 6)

Program Overview

It emphasizes clinical reasoning, aiming to initiate evidence-based interventions to stabilize patients before transfer to intensive care units. The module includes theoretical and practical components, fostering students' ability to assess and manage sick neonates in special care environments.

Program Outline

All professionals involved in the acute care of children and young people should have a robust understanding of the signs that a child is critically ill, be able to recognise when they are deteriorating and be able to initiate strategies that will help stabilise their clinical condition. Building on previous experience, this module has been designed to equip professionals with the knowledge and skills adopting a clinical reasoning approach to deliver High Dependency level care to children and young people with the aim of obtaining clinical stabilisation.

Aims:

• Provide the student with applied theoretical knowledge, decision making skills and core practical clinical skills to initiate competent, evidence-based care of the neonate in a special care environment.
• Develop students’ ability to appraise the key contextual factors which impact on the preterm and/or sick new-born infant in the antenatal, intra-partum and post-natal period and the possible consequences at each stage.

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• All professionals involved in the acute care of children and young people should have a robust understanding of the signs that a child is critically ill, be able to recognise when they are deteriorating and be able to initiate strategies that will help stabilise their clinical condition.
• Building on previous experience, this module has been designed to equip professionals with the knowledge and skills adopting a clinical reasoning approach to deliver High Dependency level care to children and young people with the aim of obtaining clinical stabilisation.