Neonatal Orientation Externship Course

This course is for new and current nurses/midwives working in neonatal units. The course offers 12-weeks of didactic lectures via a Learning Management System (LMS). The courses are designed to engage the participants via slide presentation, quizzes, and forum interaction. It is taught by a team of international neonatal nurses. The didactic component includes lectures on neonatal nursing, pregnancy, labor, and birth; essential care of the newborn, feeding the term infant; failure to breath, organization of the neonatal unit; introduction to the small and sick newborn and feeding the small and sick infant; pharmacology, infection; respiratory and hematology; neurology and advanced resuscitation; genetics and surgery; cardiac and eye, ear and throat; neurodevelopment and discharge; ethics, quality improvement (QI) and research, leadership, and teaching. Students will have access to the LMS to listen to recorded slides, complete the quiz, participate in the forum, and meet weekly with instructors for discussion. The expectation is that the nurses and midwives will also be precepted within the neonatal unit. This Course provides information on preparing neonatal nurse preceptors. A Certification of Completion will be offered by COINN. The course will run three times per year. When you sign up you will receive the date for the next course and your LMS login and password.