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Newborn Baby Care

Christine Gold, Mary Kohn, MD, and Daniel Nicklas

A newborn baby is an amazing beautiful life filled with hope. Unfortunately, many babies die or experience preventable harm even in 21st century. It is imperative that babies who are born healthy get off to a healthy start in the first month of life. There are some easy tenets of care to implement that help ensure that babies and families get off to a healthy start no matter where they are in the world. In this specialization learners will acquire the skills necessary for newborn baby care to optimize their health in the hours, days and weeks after they are born. The courses are designed to move the learner through the progression of care for healthy newborns in the first month of life. The first half of the specialization consists of clinical provisions such as initial medical interventions and screenings, health assessments and resulting diagnoses. The second half focuses on care provided at home including transport and sleep safety, nutrition, and parental and caregiver bonding.

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Four courses

Guidance to Keep Newborn Babies Safe and Healthy

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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University of Colorado System

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Christine Gold

Mary Kohn, MD

Daniel Nicklas

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