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Newborn Care

Course from Bettercare

Newborn Care is for healthcare workers providing special care for newborn infants in level 2 hospitals. It covers resuscitation, assessing size and gestational age, routine care of normal and high-risk infants, hypothermia, hypoglycaemia, jaundice, respiratory distress, infection, trauma, bleeding and ...

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Maternal Mental Health

Course from Bettercare

Maternal Mental Health demystifies maternal mental distress and mental illness and provides a clear guide to supporting mental health in the perinatal period. This course equips healthcare workers with the tools they need to provide essential perinatal mental health care. ...

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Birth Defects

Course from Bettercare

Birth Defects is for those who work with patients with birth defects. It covers modes of inheritance, medical genetic counselling, birth defects due to chromosomal abnormalities, single gene defects, teratogens and multifactorial inheritance.

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Care of the Cord

Video from Global Health Media Project

This video shows how to care for the cord of the newborn.

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Study time: 9 mins 9 mins

Taking a venous blood sample

Video from Global Health Media Project

This video shows how to draw blood from a baby in 3 different ways: with a needle, with a syringe and needle, and with a butterfly.

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Study time: 8 mins 8 mins

Eye Infections

Video from Global Health Media Project

This video shows how to identify and manage eye infections in the young baby.

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Study time: 7 mins 7 mins

Keeping the Baby Warm

Video from Global Health Media Project

This video shows ways to protect the baby from becoming too cold or too hot during the first days of life.

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Study time: 6 mins 6 mins

Feeding with a Gastric Tube

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film shows the correct and safe way to feed a baby with a gastric tube. It highlights involving the mother and features a chart that shows the volume of milk to give at each feeding according to the day ...

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Study time: 4 mins 4 mins

Breathing Problems

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film shows how to evaluate a baby with a breathing problem. It includes footage of rapid breathing, chest in-drawing, and nasal flaring. It advises to give these babies oxygen if possible and refer them to a higher-level facility.

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Study time: 7 mins 7 mins

Danger Signs in Newborns

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film features 8 major danger signs that will help health workers with early recognition of serious newborn problems–key to getting timely care and saving babies’ lives.

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Study time: 9 mins 9 mins

Basic Skills

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film covers the basic skills of taking a temperature, counting the breathing rate, and weighing a baby.

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Study time: 6 mins 6 mins

Breast Engorgement

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film shows a mother with engorged breasts and suggests ways she can try to resolve the condition.

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Study time: 5 mins 5 mins

Giving an Intradermal Injection

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film shows how to draw up the BCG vaccine and the correct technique for giving an intradermal injection.

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Study time: 4 mins 4 mins

Inserting a Gastric Tube

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film teaches how to determine if a gastric tube is needed in a baby and how to safely insert one. It covers gathering supplies, how to measure, inserting the tube, checking placement, and taping the tube in place.

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Study time: 6 mins 6 mins

Inserting an IV Line

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film shows how to insert an IV into the tiny vein of a newborn. It illustrates gathering supplies, finding a good vein, applying a tourniquet, the insertion technique, taping and splinting the IV, and administering medication.

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Study time: 7 mins 7 mins

Jaundice

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film shows how to check for jaundice, how to help normal jaundice clear, and how to recognize when jaundice needs urgent referral.

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Study time: 7 mins 7 mins

Sepsis

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film shows the baby with sepsis: what to look for to determine if the baby is sick and needs referral, or, in cases where there is no referral option, how to treat the baby. The film includes examples of ...

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Study time: 6 mins 6 mins

Setting Up an IV Line

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film shows the procedure to set up a micro-dropper IV giving set.

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Study time: 3 mins 3 mins

Skin Infection

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film shows a baby with a mild skin infection and how to treat it, and how to determine if a baby has a severe skin infection and needs referral (or, in cases where there is no referral option, how ...

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Study time: 6 mins 6 mins

Taking a Heel Blood Sample

Video from Global Health Media Project

This film shows how to take a small sample of blood for lab tests from the side of the heel of a baby.

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Study time: 3 mins 3 mins