In this course, you will learn some medical interventions and skills to keep newborns healthy in the days and weeks after they have been born. We’ll tell you about medicines like Vitamin K and erythromycin and how they can prevent serious illnesses. We’ll also introduce screening tests like hearing screening and newborn blood screening that help to make sure that babies are set up for success right from the start. But we will start off by talking about jaundice, looking at the simple ways to identify and treat this common presentation and prevent any harm to babies.
This course is part of the Newborn Baby Care Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Jaundice
Hearing and Screening
Newborn screening
Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD)
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TOP REVIEWS FROM PREVENTATIVE HEALTHCARE FOR THE NEWBORN BABY
I loved this course from start to finish. The explanation was amazing and beautifully put. I would recommend every mother to take this.
This is the best coursera course I've ever followed. Every fact is nicely explained with all the guidelines as reading materials.
Very informative course, I enjoyed how the material was presented with questions in the video and quizzes at the end.
This course is so revealing and very educative on how to take care of the newborn.Thanks to all the course lecturers for teaching with so much passion.
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