Examination of the Newborn

Routine Newborn Examination & Care of the Low Risk Infant

Available to commission for your whole team or to book individually.

Our confirmed dates are listed below, however if these are unavailable or not suitable then please do get in touch using the “Contact Us” button. Our team will be in touch to discuss how we can support your training needs.

Commissioned courses offer a unique opportunity to enhance training within your trust or organisation. By eliminating travel expenses, your team can learn and grow together in a comfortable and familiar environment, fostering collaboration and connection.

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Relevant For

Midwives, neonatal nurses (including nurse practitioners), trainee doctors in paediatrics, general practitioners (including GP registrars in training), and legal professionals.

This course is not a certification on its own to perform checks. It is a CPD course for those interested in performing checks, or those that already do.

The Need For Training

A routine physical examination is an integral part of postnatal care for new-born infants, repeated at 8 weeks of age. The UK National Screening Committee (NHS Newborn & Infant Physical Examination Programme) has established a core set of screening outcomes for the examinations identified as congenital heart disease, developmental hip dysplasia, congenital cataract and undescended testes.

Routine examination also seeks to identify infants who are unwell or at risk of developing problems by recognition of clinical symptoms and signs and identification of risk factors.

Aims and Objectives

This course provides clinically based training in all four of the components set out as screening priorities (NIPE, 2021) by experienced experts in the relevant specialties (i.e. ophthalmologists, orthopaedic surgeons, paediatric urologists, and neonatologists).

It seeks to maintain existing skills, inform and update practice, and also reflect the current relevant UK screening guidance. It will also provide an overview of common clinical problems presenting in infancy with an emphasis on the early recognition of infants at risk and their appropriate management.

Content

As well as covering the screening priorities set out by NIPE, this course also provides an overview of common clinical problems presenting in infancy with an emphasis on the early recognition of infants at risk and their appropriate management.

Content includes:

• Principles of screening & the routine new-born and infant physical examination.
• Congenital cataract & new-born eye examination.
• Screening for developmental hip dysplasia.
• Screening & detection of congenital heart disease.
• Examination of the testes and groin.
• Common abnormalities found on the routine newborn
  examination.
• Clinical problems presenting in infancy.
• Neonatal Surgical Emergencies.
• Detection of Cardiac Murmurs.

DELEGATE FEEDBACK

“An excellent and informative day with passionate speakers all with a talent for sharing their experience and knowledge.”

“This was a brilliant day. Having specialists doctors within the areas was excellent. They were also practical in their approach and challenges that can be faced on a day to day basis.”

“Teaching was really brilliant today, just the right amount of information without being overwhelming and honestly look forward to getting back to performing NIPEs!“

100% rated quality of education as ‘Very Good’ or ‘Excellent’.

100% of delegates told us that the course fulfilled ‘Many’ or ‘All’ of their learning objectives.

97% reported that they intended to modify practice in a minor or major way following the course.