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Teaching content will cover the ten learning domains of the NHS England (NHSE) National Standards for Neonatal Qualified in Specialty (QIS) Education (NHSE, 2024). Study days will be organised into themes and underpinned by the NHSE universal elements of family integrated care (FICare), psychologically / trauma-informed care, equality, inequalities, diversity and inclusion, interprofessional learning, culture, research/evidence-based practice, resources and clinical aspects (NHSE, 2024, pp. 4). 
 
Themes include: 
 
<ul><li>Maternal and fetal health and adaptation to extrauterine life </li></ul>
<ul><li>Thermoregulation, skin and infection  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Fluid, electrolyte, nutrition, feeding and elimination management </li></ul>
<ul><li>Respiratory and cardiovascular care </li></ul>
<ul><li>Neurological and infant neurodevelopmental care </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Examination of the Newborn: A Practical Guide

Resuscitation Council UK: Newborn resuscitation and support of transition of infants at birth guidelines 

Paediatric nursing. 18(6), 38-42

The neonatal energy triangle. Part 1: Metabolic adaptation

British Association of Perinatal Medicine  

Edited by S.L. Gardner et al. St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier

Merenstein & Gardner’s handbook of neonatal intensive care: an interprofessional approach

Support for parents and families of premature or sick babies

Neonatology at a glance

Evidence-based recommendations for the health and social care sector, developed by independent committees, including professionals and lay members, and consulted on by stakeholders.

(Perinatal Excellence to Reduce Injury in Premature Birth). A unique perinatal care bundle of 11 interventions that demonstrate a significant impact on brain injury and mortality rates amongst babies born prematurely

Neonatal Nursing: A Global Perspective

Maternal, fetal, & neonatal physiology: a clinical perspective

A guide to neonatal care: handbook for health professionals

Paediatric nursing. 18(7), 38-42

The neonatal energy triangle. Part 2: Thermoregulatory and respiratory adaptation

London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Neonatal intensive care nursing

APM036 - Neonatal Care Specialist Core Skills

APM036-PRD3-BLE-ALV1

APM036-PRD1-BLE-ALV1

This module will be delivered through blended learning with some sessions in person (i.e., face-to-face on campus), and others through synchronous (participants are engaged at the same time online) and asynchronous online learning (you need to plan time to engage with these in preparation for in-person and synchronous sessions). 
 
The approaches will include group work, case studies, self-reflection, academic reading, online activities and evidence-based practice that you might reflect upon and apply to your future practice. The detail of each session and mode will be provided by your Module Leader. 
 
We will encourage you to contribute to the module through actively participating in case study discussions and group work. You will be asked to draw upon your professional practice and share these with others. 
 
You will be able to take part in formative exercises to enable you to consider the assessment criteria and gain feedback on your proposed summative reflection.  
 
Key resources and activities will be put on the module website on Moodle. In the independent study time, you will be encouraged and supported by lecturers to read widely and in depth around particular topics and to critically share your experience with others using asynchronous activities on Moodle. These hours also enable you to review additional materials added to Moodle such as peer-reviewed journals, videos, websites and podcasts. 
 
 
The various teaching and learning methods used in this module will provide a psychologically safe environment for you to explore your own knowledge base, professional issues, worries and concerns.

This module’s contact hours may be delivered using a number of different approaches, including in-person sessions (i.e. face to face on campus), online synchronous sessions; online asynchronous guided activities (e.g. recorded lectures and/or other online resources, reading materials, quizzes, exercises and forum contributions). In addition to these teaching delivery approaches, you will undertake your own independent study, which may involve wider reading, independent research, skill practice and preparation for assessment. Please see teaching pattern table below for further details of teaching hours for this module.

Neonatal Care Specialist Core Skills

Assess, maintain and evaluate effective communication channels with families and the multi-disciplinary team. 

Skills

Recognise and value the cultural, spiritual and social needs of the neonate and family incorporating these values within the concept of family integrated care (FICare). 

Values and attitudes

Make recommendations and critically evaluate, on an ongoing basis, care for the sick and high-risk neonate and family during their stay on the neonatal unit as they progress through different levels of care. 

Assess the holistic needs of the high-risk neonate and family on admission, in order to deliver and evaluate care specific to their needs during their subsequent stay in the neonatal unit. 

Knowledge

Promote and discuss the value of equality, diversity and inclusion in neonatal care, and advocate for infants, families, carers and colleagues from marginalised groups. 

Contribute to a culture that supports learning, psychological safety and the importance of ‘speaking up’. 

Retrieve and critically review relevant neonatal literature to provide an appropriate evidence base for learning in practice. 

Critically evaluate your knowledge and understanding of the embryonic phase, development of the foetus and foetal and neonatal circulation. 

Critically evaluate appropriate interventions / investigations to the sick and high-risk neonate appropriate to their disease and specific problems using a relevant evidence base as rationale. 

Recommend and provide an environment for the neonate and family, both physical and psychological that is conducive to optimising well-being, safety and preventing harm using a relevant evidence base as rationale. 

Prioritise your own learning needs and demonstrate learning and development within neonatal practice by reflection and application of theory to practice. 