The Well-Baby Check Challenge 0–6-Month of Age

Course code: P61

Course summary

Well baby clinics offer parents and health care providers the opportunity to discuss infant progress, wellbeing, and concerns. The health provider must be prepared to deal with a wide range of issues including common and not so common conditions seen in babies of this age group. This course will explore a variety of presentations that are often of concern or noted during these sessions.

Who should attend?

Health care providers who conduct well baby clinics for children between 0-6 months of age. This includes registered staff such as Health Visitors and non-registered staff such as Community Nursery Nurses.

Important notes

Note: This course assumes that all attendees are familiar with developmental norms for this age group.

All course material and certificate of completion are provided.

The course runs from 10:00am- 4:30pm

Cost

Course duration	Course CPD	In-house Course
1 day(s)	8 hour(s)	POA

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Aims / objectives

Have reviewed and discussed different presentations that are within the normal spectrum for babies 0-6 months

Be more confident in detecting presentations of concern in the areas reviewed

Be more confident in managing a variety of common well baby presentations including referring appropriately.

Be more prepared and better able to support parents with their questions and concerns.

Course programme

Introductions & Precourse pictorial quiz

Well Baby Check Challenges- assessment & management

Head, neck and eyes
- Variations of the norm: the head and neck
- Cranial irregularities such as hydrocephaly, microcephaly or craniosynostosis
- Torticollis, cystic hygroma
- Ears/hearing, eyes/squint, nystagmus, red reflex
Neurological issues: what’s of concern and what isn’t
- Motor: muscle tone: reflexes, spasticity, limb preference, Erb’s palsy
- Sacral dimples to spina bifida
Cardio/Respiratory challenges
- Recessed sternum
- Red flags- cyanosis, breathing, panting, sweating
Recap and questions
Abdominal presentations including genitalia
- Abdominal and umbilical masses such as granulomas and hernias
- Conditions of the genitalia
- Abnormalities of male genitalia such as undescended testes, hypospadias, chordee, hydrocele
- Abnormalities of the female genitalia such as inguinal hernia
- Ambiguous genitalia
MSK concerns
- History of familial developmental dysplasia, breech presentation, twin birth
- Asymmetric skin creases
- Talipes equinovarus
Skin presentations to include:
- Cradle cap, rashes, milia, eczema, birthmarks such as café au lait, hemangiomas, congenital dermal melanocytosis.

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TBA