Educational Resources

This interactive, multisensory training allows participants to experience an infant’s journey, from birth through admission.

Participants are presented with a holistic view of the NICU experience, enabling the clinician to understand the challenges faced by the critically ill infant and grieving family.

This innovative feeding program is aimed at individualizing the feeding experience for infants in the NICU.

During this unique program, the audience will gain a clear understanding of their personal heritage and how that heritage may influence daily healthcare practices.

The Touch program provides clinical staff with a unique and crucial perspective on the impact of touch and the critically ill infant and how positive touch helps build parent competence.

Families of hospitalized infants experience a physical and emotional separation. This program focuses on practical ways to encourage parental involvement.

This program focuses on multi-channel continuous waveform recording for inpatient diagnostic use as well as trend-event monitoring for the home care infant.

The Wee Care program is a 24-month, internationally-recognized, quality and process improvement program.

The Wee Focus program extends over a six-month time period and is ideal for the team new to practice improvement or focused on a single clinical practice initiative.

The "Birth to Breast" interactive learning module CD-ROM provides clinicians with an evidence-based, comprehensive approach to support breastfeeding in the NICU.

This interactive learning module presents an overview of the effects that stress has on the central nervous system and sensory development of the infant and practical care modifications are provided.

The Science of Preterm Infant Development presents a practical overview of recent research illuminating the process of fetal and neonatal development.

Incorporates the science presented in Part 1 and gives professionals who work in special-care nurseries practical and proven strategies to support optimal brain development in preterm infants.

No Matter How Small is a parent's guide to preterm infant development and behavior.

16-page booklet (English) filled with instructional photos and straight-forward text to help guide families to read their babies’ cues.

16-page booklet (Spanish) filled with instructional photos and straight-forward text to help guide families to read their babies’ cues.

Benefits of Kangaroo Care (skin-to-skin contact) range from cardiorespiratory stability, protected thermoregulation, better sleep patterns, and decreased hospital stay.

Parenting Based on the Developmental Progression of Preterm Infants is a booklet designed to help parents participate in the care of their baby.

This book, written by a neonatologist and parents of premature infants, is a reassuring, yet realistic, guide for parents of a preemie.

Cheerful pastel pads help staff and parents learn the communication signals from the infant.

This book presents valuable information on the interaction between an infant, the family, and the surrounding environment.

The Developmentally Supportive Careself-study learning module describes developmental care theory and application in clear and concise terms with informative photographs.

Newborn Intensive Care: What Every Parent Needs to Know was written by a neonatal nurse and addresses child care from birth through the intensive care stay and beyond.

The NICU and Beyond allows parents to keep track of their preterm infantís developmental milestones through the first year of life.

From practical concerns about caregiving and feeding to complex questions about the growing childís health, Your Premature Baby and Child gives guidance.