Extending "Helping Babies Breathe" to an Academic Setting in Fiji: A Project Involving American Nursing Faculty and Graduate and Undergraduate Nursing Students.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Macintosh, Janelle L. B., ; Ferrara, Ashley L.; Ray, Gaye; Luthy, Karlen E. (Beth); Beckstrand, Renea L.
- Source
- Nursing Education Perspectives (Wolters Kluwer Health); Nov/Dec2021, Vol. 42 Issue 6, pE189-E190, 3p
- Subject
- College students
Teaching methods
Health occupations students
Curriculum
Undergraduates
Pre-tests & post-tests
Graduate students
Nursing students
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Professions
T-test (Statistics)
Quality assurance
Questionnaires
Asphyxia neonatorum
Data analysis software
United States
Melanesia
- Language
- ISSN
- 15365026
Approximately 2.5million neonates died worldwide in 2018.Over one quarter of neonatal deaths are caused by birth asphyxia. Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) was created to teach basic neonatal resuscitation steps in limited-resource settings. Fifteen Fijian faculty members attended a master teacher class. Nine undergraduate nursing students from the western United States assisted in teaching two HBB classes for Fijian nursing students. Fijian faculty and student knowledge increased significantly posteducation. Educational settings provide ideal locations for future nurses to learn and practice evidence-based neonatal resuscitation skills. Implementing HBB in an academic setting, though novel, may ensure educators are familiar with current guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]