NEST 360 Education Tools
Three important developments are driving global commitment to reducing newborn mortality rates.
1) We have evidence of where and why newborn deaths occur.
2) Newborn survival is receiving unprecedented international attention, with an established global target (SDG 3.2) and national commitments to end preventable newborn deaths by 2030.
3) Most of the world’s births now occur in hospitals, enabling health care providers to support more women and their babies.
NEST 360 is a global consortium whose aim is to provide an evidence-based model for sustainable health systems to close gaps in technology, markets, and human resources for the implementation of quality hospital-based newborn care at national scale. The consortium has an international team of engineers, nurses, doctors, and global health experts working together; and in order to achieve these goals a bundle of 15 affordable, effective medical devices and diagnostic tools has been developed that address the needs of small and sick newborns for temperature stability, respiratory support, hydration and nutrition, infection prevention, and neonatal jaundice treatment.
In addition to developing the technologies, NEST has created education materials for clinicians and technicians on how to use and maintain the various devices. The education tools can stand alone or, ideally, be embedded in local neonatal and technical trainings in the pre-service and in-service settings. They are not comprehensive clinical guidelines or targeted towards intensive care but are intended to support the implementation of comprehensive newborn care, including bubble CPAP, in a resource limited setting.
The NEST-ED Clinical and Technical Modules that support each of the technologies were developed through a combination of international standard review, international expert feedback, and multinational NEST360° expert consensus opinion. They are the backbone of all lectures, power points, job aids, and other supportive education materials supplied by NEST360.
All of these are available online at NEST360.org
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