Newborn and Infant Care Training

Contact person – Dr. Elena Safronova, Clinical Care Specialist

Telephone +7 (495) 937-36-23, fax +7 (495) 937-36-80, e-mail s.elena@jsi.ru

Newborn and infant care is a new training bringing together neonatal and pediatric interests to improve care quality in newborn and infant care, breastfeeding and child development based on international standards and evidence based medicine data.

Description of the training

The training includes the issues of newborn and infant care organization right after birth. Interactive presentations are grouped by case studies, small group discussions and practice at working places. The course covers modern principals of polyclinic work functioning, newborn and infant care, monitoring of newborn and infant development, new WHO child growth standards. The training offers simple practices based on situations occurred at management of children of this group. In the course of the training the participants improve counseling skills and work in team, develop clinical protocols and check lists for management of various states.

Goal

Improvement of the quality of providing newborn and infant care, promotion and intervention of modern standards of newborn and infant development at first level medical facilities.

Participants

The participants of the Newborn and infant care Training are health managers, neonatologists, pediatricians, anesthesiologists and nurses.

Key Topics for discussion

Evidence-based medicine
Organization of infant care
Counseling skills
Principals of infant and newborn care. Newborn care protocol
Practical skills on breastfeeding
Possible problems during breastfeeding
Maternal counseling on Sudden Infant Death syndrome
Principals of nutrition for infants. Complimentary feeding. Maternal counseling on infant nutrition
Health development. WHO child growth standards.
Infant psychomotor development and care
Infant discomfort and pain prevention
Jaundice among newborns and infants being exclusively breastfed. Interventions. Basic requirements for phototherapy management
Infants and HIV. PMTCT algorithms
Maternal counseling on family planning
Management of low-weight and sick children in maternities and children’s policlinics
Perinatal CVS affection. Diagnosis and treatment
Interventions on infant care and nutrition in children’s polyclinics.

The length of the training is 5 days.

The participants’ folder includes:

Participants’ manual on newborn and infant care
Health promotion materials
Guidelines: Care of the newborn in the delivery and nursing room
Breastfeeding Guidelines
WHO guidelines on breastfeeding and nutrition for infants and young children
A set of reference materials
A set of information materials to be used during counseling
A video film
Posters

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