12 slots available

Topics to Include:

Discuss issues of patient safety and error reduction in the delivery

of nursing and medical infant care.

Identify infants at increased risk for becoming hypothermic.

Summarize basic evaluation of neonatal respiratory distress.

Discuss the causes, presentation and initial treatment of hypovolemic, cardiogenic, and septic shock.

Describe the clinical signs of neonatal sepsis.

Discuss the crisis that families face when the infant requires care in a neonatal intensive care unit.

You may find it helpful to have a STABLE Program Learner Manual with you during this class.

You may borrow a copy from your facility or purchase one from www.stableprogram.org

Module 6 – Cesarean Birth and Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)

• Nursing care provided for a cesarean birth in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases.
• A systematic review of post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) standards and maternal postoperative assessment, potential complications and nursing care recommendations.
•  PACU Discharge recovery Scoring Tool
• Potential complications in the immediate post anesthesia care recovery period after cesarean birth.

Module 11 Postpartum Assessment and Nursing Care

• Normal physiologic and psychological changes that occur after birth.
• Normal from abnormal postpartum emotional changes.
• Causes  symptoms, and management of potential postpartum complications.
• Expanded content on patient discharge education and POST-BIRTH Discharge Education tool with an emphasis on improving maternal safety.
• Expanded content on postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) including QBL from the PPH Project.

Newborn Assessment and Nursing Care

• Includes all newborn content including discharge planning
• Updates on newborn skin care and procedural pain management

Content includes:

• Video on newborn physical assessment and reflexes
• Skin-to-skin care, breastfeeding, and infant nutrition
• Infant self-attachment and the breast crawl, sudden postnatal collapse of the newborn, and updates on safe sleep

Newborn Assessment and Nursing Care

• Includes all newborn content including discharge planning
• Updates on newborn skin care and procedural pain management

Content includes:

• Video on newborn physical assessment and reflexes
• Skin-to-skin care, breastfeeding, and infant nutrition
• Infant self-attachment and the breast crawl, sudden postnatal collapse of the newborn, and updates on safe sleep

Content Includes:

•  Screening for CCHD; hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), and;  blood gas interpretation
• Impact of maternal substance abuse on the fetus and neonate
• Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS)
• Use of cooling cap in therapeutic hypothermia treatment

Updates on content related to the late preterm infant (LPI), neonatal resuscitation program (NRP).

Content Includes:

•  Screening for CCHD; hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), and;  blood gas interpretation
• Impact of maternal substance abuse on the fetus and neonate
• Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS)
• Use of cooling cap in therapeutic hypothermia treatment

Updates on content related to the late preterm infant (LPI), neonatal resuscitation program (NRP).

Content Includes:

• Updated content on sexually transmitted and other infections in pregnancy and the maternal and neonatal implications.
• New content on maternal vaccinations