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Newborn Baby Care

Christine Gold, Mary Kohn, MD, and Daniel Nicklas

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Four courses

Guidance to Keep Newborn Babies Safe and Healthy

(15 hours)

In this course, you will learn some key things that parents will need to do to keep their babies safe and healthy. The Guidance to Keep Newborn Babies Safe and Healthy Course will teach you best practices for how your baby will spend most of their day: eating, sleeping, and sometimes crying.

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The Newborn Assessment

In your previous course, you learned medical interventions and skills to keep newborns healthy. This course teaches additional skills medical providers use to keep babies healthy, including a physical examination from head to toe. You'll learn to distinguish normal from abnormal findings and use medical equipment like a stethoscope and pulse oximeter.

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Preventative Healthcare for the Newborn Baby

In this course, you will learn medical interventions and skills to keep newborns healthy after birth. We'll cover medicines like Vitamin K and erythromycin, screening tests like hearing and newborn blood screening, and jaundice identification and treatment.

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Supporting Parents of a Newborn Baby

In this course, you will learn how to support parents of newborn babies. Topics include the newborn exam, postpartum depression, early bonding, and touch. We will also discuss the role of supportive partners and parents in varied households, including special considerations in adoption.

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900 hours

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Coursera

Institution

University of Colorado System

Instructors

Christine Gold

Mary Kohn, MD

Daniel Nicklas

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