National Neonatology Forum of India has developed standardized Teaching Aids through
an elaborate process of consultation and pilot testing on Newborn Health in India.
These consist of slides and matching manuscript on 12 common topics . Teachers
of Medical & Nursing Schools will find this useful for teaching undergraduate
medical & nursing students.
For more details or obtaining a copy
of CDRom write to-: secnnf@vsnl.com
Foreword
Strengthening of education and training
of physicians and nurses in neonatal care is an important pre-requisite for a
successful march toward the national child health goals. In recent years, a consensus
on core competencies to improve newborn survival at the primary and secondary
levels has been developed - thanks to the leadership of the National Neonatology
Forum. The previous edition of the Teaching Aids incorporated these agreed evidence-based
contents. That module was a remarkable milestone because of many reasons. The
precision of messages and the quality of the text and the slides received well-deserved
accolades from all quarters. The ‘Teaching Aids’ helped in standardizing
teaching in newborn care in pre-service, in service and continuing education programs.
NNF incorporated this learning resource in the district training program organized
on behalf of the Government of India in over 80 districts. Almost ten years later
this extraordinary product has now been further updated, refined, perfected and
embellished. The present version of ‘Teaching Aids’ has been aligned
with contemporary technology with power point format, CD-ROM version and web based
dissemination plans.
I congratulate the contributors and reviewers for their
inputs. Dr. Ashok Deorari and his editorial team at AIIMS deserve credit for not
only coordinating this huge team effort, but also for meticulously putting the
text and visuals together, and thereby turning a great concept into a user-friendly
reality.
| 1st July, 2005 New Delhi | Prof.
Vinod Paul Incharge, WHO-CC for Training & Research in Newborn Care Department of Pediatrics, AIIMS, New Delhi |
Preface
Deaths
during first 28 days of life account for over 60 percent of all deaths during
infancy. Further reduction of infant mortality rate in our country can be accomplished
by improving the quality of care provided to newborn babies at all levels. Apart
from strengthening the health systems for delivery of newborn care,it is desirable
to improve the knowledge and skills of nurses. medical officers,family physicians
working in the small hospitals in the country. This can happen if we incorporate
essential new born care in the pre-service education of health professionals.Ever
since it's inception, National
Neonatology Forum of India has realized
the need for creation of a uniform standardized teaching material for health professionals.
I feel privileged to present a set of teaching aids on twelve common newborn topics
along with the matching manuscript for undergraduate medical, nursing students
and general duty medical officers.
This task would not have materialized
without co-operation from a large number of NNF resource faculty members and senior
NNF members who have field tested the slides and the manuscripts.This revised
edition has been brought out with inputs from all previous contributors and several
NNF members. A number of suggestions made by them on the earlier edition have
been incorporated.
Four more topics viz. Newborn health in India, Kangaroo
Mother Care, Post asphyxia management and transport of sick newborn have been
added after pilot-testing. We plan to widely distribute the revised and updates
materials throughout the country, which we hope would go a long way to ensure
rational management of common neonatal disorders and enhance newborn survival.
I would like to express appreciation to Mr. Sanjeev Negi for diligently typing
the manuscript
and Mr Narender Singhal for designing slides. Kindly note,
that your suggestions and comments are invaluable.
This will improve teaching
material for future use.
New Delhi
July 1,2005
Prof. A.
K. Deorari
Editor, WHO-CC for Training & Research in Newborn Care
Department of Pediatrics, AIIMS, New Delhi