ESSENTIAL NEWBORN CARE 2 Flip Chart English

Essential Newborn Care 2 (ENC2) is the second part of the WHO Essential Newborn Care Course (ENCC). The ENC2 curriculum focuses on assessment and continued care from 60 minutes after birth to discharge. It is the updated version of Essential Care for Every Baby and Essential Care for Small babies.

Assessment and Continue Care. ENC2 focuses on the care from 60-90 minutes of life, to discharge from the facility and first month of the baby. This course was created in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics, as an updated and combined version of Essential Care for Every Baby (ECEB) and Essential Care for Small Babies (ECSB)

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.

The ENC2 course takes approximately 2 days to teach

Learning objectives

• Prevent infection
• Provide respectful care
• Record and use data
• Assessment, Prevention, Classification
• Provide routine continuing care in the facility
• Provide intermediate continuing care in the facility (low weight, low temperature, feeding difficulty)
• Provide advanced continuing care in the facility (Danger Signs, referral)

1 facilitator for every group of 6 participants. The participants will practice in pairs.

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