This module enables midwives and neonatal professionals to enhance their existing skills and expertise in examination and care of the newborn. The module is work based which enables you to learn in a familiar environment.
On this module, you will learn to be a Newborn and Infant and Physical Examination (NIPE) practitioner. You will develop your current understanding of newborn assessment. Newborn examination skills will be enhanced to incorporate competency in performing the 4 specific screening elements of the NHS Newborn and Infant and Physical Examination (NIPE) programme, these are the examination of the newborn heart, testes, eyes and the hips. You will learn about the NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination Screening (NIPE) Programme, the rationale for the newborn examination standards, and the implementation of the programme in the UK. You will determine how this will direct your practice and understanding of referral and decision making.
Guided study will enable you to review and increase your knowledge of newborn physiology, the normal parameters of health and potential deviations from normal as well as understanding the aetiology and recognition of congenital abnormalities. You will evaluate the practitioner accountability and responsibility when assuming an enhanced role
The module will assist you to embrace specific aspects of newborn wellbeing, you will review contemporary evidence and research to evaluate care, for example neonatal jaundice. The newborn examination is an opportunity to dialogue with parents and to reinforce health promotion messages, you will review the evidence base and communication approaches when addressing for example, safe sleeping, recognising the ill baby and responsive parenting.
Award Type Level 7
Mode of Study
Part Time
Start Delivered as part of the Health and Social Practice Framework
Sector
Health and Social Care
This course would suit a range of healthcare professionals who would like to develop their practice in the area of physical assessment and associated screening of the newborn baby. It is recommended for those practitioners who are either currently required to use these skills in practice or in the near future. You must be able to secure supervision and assessment support from a suitably qualified clinical assessor in your employing trust; these are likely to include midwives who are providing NIPE, specialist trainees in paediatrics, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners. Support from your line manager to be able to undertake the module in the required timeframe is essential and should be assured before enrolment.
Previous evidence of level 6 study.
Knowledge & Understanding:
1. You will appraise the principles of screening and physical assessment standards applied to the Newborn
2. You will demonstrate an informed understanding of the newborn parameters of health and wellbeing
Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
3. You will demonstrate competence to perform the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) screening and examination of the newborn
4. You will critically appraise evidence and research, and draw conclusions of its usefulness to inform newborn examination and care practice
Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
5. You will evaluate your professional role, and personal responsibility when assuming the remit as a NIPE practitioner
We encourage you to contact Programme leads for discussion about your individualised award via this email nsapplicantservices@northumbria.ac.uk.
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