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Healthcare Worker Certification as a Neonatal Babywearing Educator

Neonatal Babywearing Educator Certification for the Healthcare Worker

Make a soothing impact on babies, caregivers, volunteers, and staff

If your patient population includes babies with NAS or NOWs, and your unit follows the Eat, Sleep, Console methodology, then this program will support your efforts. Babywearing can ease babies' suffering and help your staff, parents, caregivers, and even volunteer cuddlers with practical, tested methods for caring for babies in withdrawal.

This program, designed in partnership with Lisa Grisham, Shari Weise, and their teams at Banner Health in Arizona, takes into account the unique needs of both the NAS/NOWs population and the healthcare workers who care for them.

Course Design

This course incorporates live instruction, discussion, and feedback. It also includes video/written materials and embedded and live testing. We meet again 8 weeks later for a cohort follow-up on implementation.

Unit Implementation

You and your fellow CNBE-H trainers will be well prepared to bring this practice to your unit and begin the necessary staff training. You'll have access to an online training portal designed to reduce the time you spend in person. You'll be tested based on the CCL and can use it for your staff, so you only need to focus on verifying knowledge, answering questions, and building confidence and competence in babywearing.

Carriers for the Program

We've partnered with a few babywearing brands who are able to support this initiative and have the proper insurance and testing needed for the hospital setting, the laundry and infection control specifics and we will introduce you to them for preferential pricing so that more of your precious budget can go to other needed items.

Curriculum

1

Introduction to Babywearing in the NICU

  • Why is babywearing important for the infant and caregivers?
  • The current evidence base for babywearing.
2

Positioning and Safety while Babywearing

  • Clear guidelines on infant and care-provider positioning while babywearing.
  • In-depth safety focus through case studies, exploration, and discussion.
3

Risk Mitigation and Infection Control while Babywearing

  • Common issues and prevention for babywearing.
  • Infection control, carrier integrity, and risk prevention.
4

Specific & In-depth baby carrier training for carriers used by Banner Health.

  • Overview of each baby carrier used in your NICU, how to use it, how to troubleshoot common issues, structural integrity, and a visual structure for right-vs-wrong clarity.
5

Teaching Structure for Trainer

  • Breaking the carrier education into easy-to-understand steps.
  • Overcome common teaching friction moments.
  • Encourage through resistance.

Learning Objectives

  • Instruct the healthcare workers, families, and volunteers who interact with the NICU in the proper use, positioning, safety measures, and troubleshooting for each carrier style on the unit.
  • Break down and discuss the correlation between the ABCs of babywearing positioning and babywearing safety.
  • Recognize and remediate the signs of infant distress while wearing.
  • Summarize and incorporate risk management measures unique to babywearing.
  • Manage and maintain a carrier-tracking system to monitor the wear and tear on the individual baby carriers in the unit.
  • Verify and monitor a learner’s comprehension of babywearing techniques, safety, and rationale for use.
  • Construct clear well supported and sustained evidence-based arguments to support the practice of babywearing.
  • Synthesize ‘why to wear’ into a 30-second elevator pitch statement.
  • Compare and contrast the differences between the carriers available in the unit.
  • Create a learning space in the unit with all necessary items for first-time learners.

Plus even more!

  • Checklists for you to use with the healthcare workers, families, and volunteers you will teach.
  • Online modules plus six one-hour weekly live sessions, with an 8-week cohort follow-up.
  • Training platform for you to use when teaching colleagues and parents.

Bring hospital-based babywearing education to your team

Evidence-informed. Practical. Designed for staff, volunteers, and families.

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Questions first? Email bianca@cbws.org