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
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Applying contemporary educational methods
- active learning and skills mastery through simulation
- facility-based education to promote interprofessional 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 date to check for improvement
- focus on sustained improvement
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Tools for the successful scale-up of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in health care facilities and communities
Tools for the successful scale-up of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in health care facilities and communities
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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.
- Active learning and skills mastery through team simulations
WHO / PAHO, Colombia
Kangaroo mother care in Colombia
Kangaroo mother care in Colombia
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PMNCH / Isabel Pinto
Eunice and twins. Skin-to-skin contact between mother and newborn baby after birth is practiced.
Eunice and twins. Skin-to-skin contact between mother and newborn baby after birth is practiced.
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Useful resources
This document puts forward the joint position and vision of an expert, global, multistakeholder working group on implementing Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC)...
The recommendations in this guideline are intended to inform development of national and subnational health policies, clinical protocols and programmatic...
This guideline aims to improve the quality of essential, routine postnatal care for women and newborns with the ultimate goal of improving maternal and...
Much progress has been made during the past two decades in coverage of births in health facilities; however, reductions in maternal and neonatal mortality...
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