Resources
- Below are a selection of web resources that you may find helpful in your clinical practice.
- Click on the link to view the web resource. To navigate back to the ACNN website all you need to do is click the back button in your web browser.
- Some resources may require you to register to view content. It is entirely up to you whether you would like to do this, all registrations are free of charge.
Consumer focussed websites
- Raising Children Network (Australian, consumer focussed) - scroll down to the Premature babies section for some great resources
Clinical focussed websites
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Auckland District Health Board - clinical guidelines site: go to newborn search and type in say 'ventilation' and see what comes up. The section on 'Ventilation graphics and Respiratory Function Monitoring' is good.
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Professor Fink explains Cellular Respiration - This series of YouTube videos are very good for explaining the process of glucose metabolism and energy production - cellular respiration. Don't glaze over, he really does explain it quite well.
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Stanford Medicine: Newborn Nursery Professional Education - in the Photo Gallery some of the photos contain 'explicit imagery' and the website will ask you for your email address to access the photographs
- The New Ballard Score - Assessing the Maturation of gestational age
Education practice resources
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Dr Trudi Mannix, NPCHN Journal, 14 (3) 2011 Using Delphi to develop educational standards for NIC nursing education.pdf
- Graduate Attributes of Postgraduate Certificate in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing in Australia 2014.pdf
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Mapping the ACNN Standards to the ANMC National Competencies for Registered Nurses and Midwives, by Dr Victoria Kain NATIONAL-COMPETENCY-STANDARDS-…
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ACNN Position Statement on the Provision of neonatal nursing education.
Quality and safety resource websites
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Hand Hygiene Australia - Make sure you undertake the online learning package every year
Resuscitation resource websites
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Australian Resuscitation Council - scroll down to section 13 - neonatal guidelines
- ANZCOR summarises the history and development of the ANZCOR Neonatal Guidelines, as well as the major changes in the 2016 revision article.
- NeoResus is making headways in educating health care professionals on newborn life support and advanced newborn life support. They have an excellent learning resource section. Visit their website to find out about programs and bookings.
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Resus4Kids - has a good section on the neo-puff (be reminded that this is for paediatric patients so the ratio is different for newborns)
Transport
- NeoRESQ is the neonatal retrieval service that supports regional centres in central and south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales
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NETS Retrieval Service for NSW
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PIPER VIC for retrieval of critically ill children, infants and pregnant women in Victoria, Tasmania, and Southern New South Wales
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MedSTAR South Australian transport service
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S.T.A.B.L.E. USA and Canada, has great resources for transporting the neonate
For any education resources you would like to see added please e-mail educationsig@acnn.org.au.
Updated 28 March 2020