OUTREACH PROGRAM
Preparing community teams for neonatal resuscitation — wherever care is delivered
Neonatal resuscitation is a high-stakes, low-frequency event. Without regular practice, skills and confidence decline over time, particularly in settings where neonatal emergencies are uncommon.
Our outreach interventions are designed to address this gap - by strengthening local capacity, reinforcing provider readiness, and supporting teams across New Brunswick.
WHAT TEAMS ARE SAYING
"Staff was able to grow their skills in a safe learning environment. "
The simulations that NEST provided to our hospital have been incredibly valuable to our staff offering them the tools needed to quickly, and confidently, deal with complications that arise before babies can be transferred to a higher-level facility. The confidence that the staff has gained through the initial simulation has also prevented some neonatal transfers as staff learn skills to safely keep babies with their parents at our facility.
Through this education the staff have become more comfortable with CPAP initiation, working through their NRP algorithms, and creating plans of care in emergency situations. They have been able to grow their skills in a safe learning environment.
The staff have had such great feedback that physicians from other facilities reached out, asking if they could attend any upcoming education sessions to help them prepare for emergency deliveries. The staff feedback included, “the session was awesome. Definitely need more”, and “the doctor and RT who came were awesome and I found it very helpful”.
