ESSENTIAL NEWBORN CARE 1 Action Plan Poster English
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ESSENTIAL NEWBORN CARE 1
Definition
Essential Newborn Care 1 (ENC1) is a hands-on essential newborn care training program by the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics. ENC1 is the first part of the WHO Essential Newborn Care Course (ENCC).
It focuses on the care of babies from birth to 60 minutes after birth. ENC 1 incorporates all content of the Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) program, updated to align with WHO recommendations and guidelines;
Specifications
The ENCC is made up of three flexible components that allow organizers and facilitators to select the content that participants needs and adapt the timeline for educational activities in the health facility.
Components
- Flip chartETPOECSB2E-P
- Provider Guides ETPOECSB3E-P
- Action plan ETPOECSB4E-P
Technical specifications
- Flip chart
- 1 Facilitator Flip Chart
- 1 ENC1 Action Poster
- 1 Reprocessing Poster
- Provider guide: An educational guide and quality improvement tool for healthcare providers to provide essential newborn care including helping babies breathe, to be used both during the training and in the facility.
- Action plan: A simple, pictorial, step-by-step Action Plan covering care during the period immediately and during the first 60 minutes after birth.
Packaging & Labelling
per unit
To be Ordered Separately
- NeoNatalie Newborn Simulator Complete kit which comes with:
- NeoNatalie resuscitator (Bag-Mask), or
- Upright resuscitator (Laerdal Upright)
- Penguin Newborn Suction
- stethoscope.
Instructions for use
Two continuous days, or 5-8 shorter sessions.
Learning objectives
- Newborn resuscitation within the Golden Minute
- Keeping babies warm
- Promoting exclusive breastfeeding
- Preventing infection
- Treating mother and baby with respect
- Keeping records to help provide the best care
1 facilitator for every group of 6 participants. The participants will practice in pairs.
MSF requirements
Essential Newborn Care is a course by WHO that aims to build competencies in newborn care, nurturing care, and promoting healthy growth and development. The second edition, published in 2023, supports better learning and quality of care by:
- 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