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Professional Information
Education and Support for Pregnancy, Birth and Early Parenting:
Growing
Healthy Together - Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program
2006 - click
here
Education Support Standards for Pregnancy, Birth
and Early Parenting: Newfoundland and Labrador
2005 - click
here
Neonatal
Resuscitation Program (NRP):
This internationally recognized
neonatal education program is based on a standardized,
team-based approach to the immediate care and resuscitation
of the newborn infant, wherever the delivery occurs.
Provincial hospitals have access to hospital based or
regional NRP Instructors who can provide NRP provider level
courses to all health care providers who are responsible for
obstetrical or neonatal care. The course can be delivered as
a workshop or as self paced learning. The skills covered
include immediate care of the newborn, assessment,
suctioning, delivery of free flow oxygen, bag and mask
ventilation, chest compressions, intubation and
administration of medications. Successful course completion
results in registration as an NRP provider with the
Canadian
Paediatric Society (CPS) which is valid for a period of two
years. Refresher courses are completed to renew
registration. It is important to note that NRP is not
a certification program. For
more information - click
here.
Practice Changes for Meconium Suctioning on the Perineum
- click
here
For information on NRP courses in your
area, contact the Education Department at your nearest hospital.
For other information on NRP, please contact
Clare Bessell
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What’s New in NRP?
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The Canadian
Paediatric Society (CPS) is the new Canadian provider of the
Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP). For
more information - click
here.
The 2006 NRP textbook (5th
Edition) can be ordered
through the
CPS
- click
here.
There is also a
Canadian addendum to the 2006 NRP textbook which reviews the
Canadian context of neonatal resuscitation management -
click here. An
addendum is included with the purchase of each NRP text.
The NRP Instructor Newsletter is available in electronic form
and can be obtained from the CPS - click
here
or the American Academy of Pediatrics
– click
here.
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Acute Care of At-Risk
Newborn (ACoRN)
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Additional steps after immediate
resuscitation of the newborn may involve post resuscitation
stabilization management for the newborn who is sick or compromised.
A group of Canadian clinicians has developed an educational program
that promotes an organized and comprehensive assessment and
management approach that can be utilized in all centers delivering
newborn care.
The ACoRN program was launched in
Canada in October 2005 at an Instructor Workshop in PEI. Five
participants from Newfoundland and Labrador attended, and will work
as a team towards implementing ACoRN in the province in 2006.
More information on ACoRN can be obtained from the Perinatal
Program.
For other information on ACoRN, please contact
Clare Bessell
(777-4413) at the Provincial Perinatal Program and check out this
site -
http://www.acornprogram.net/
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Advanced Life Support
in Obstetrics (ALSO)
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This highly successful two-day course,
co-facilitated by the College of Family Physicians and the
Provincial Perinatal Program, addresses high-risk labour and
delivery management through knowledge acquisition and hands on
practice. This course promotes teamwork and confidence among health
care professionals in the management of emergency and high-risk
labour and deliveries, and supports uniformity of care regardless of
the delivery location.
The course is offered once or twice a
year in various provincial locations. Course registration and
general inquires can be made by contacting:
Debbie Rideout, Newfoundland and
Labrador Chapter, College of Family Physicians of Canada
Phone: 709-744-3434 Email:
cfpc@nf.aibn.com
2010 Dates:
Grand Falls - Windsor, NL , March
6th & 7th, 2010
St. John's, NL, June 27th & 28th,
2010
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Perinatal
Guidelines
The NLPPP does
not develop perinatal guidelines, but will post updates on
guideline changes as they are available. Useful web sites include:
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The Society of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC) - click
here
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The Canadian Pedatric
Society (CPS) - click
here
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The American Academy of Pediatrics
(AAP) - click here
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The American college of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) - click
here
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Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) - click
here
Fetal Fibronectin Testing
Program
New resources are
now available to assist health care
professionals and planners with the
implementation and monitoring of a Fetal
Fibronectin testing program. A cross-Canada
working group has produced templates of a
clinical guideline, a presentation, and a list
of key indicators. - click
here
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