Safer Births Bundle of Care training rolls out to all 15 participating facilities in Nigeria
Cascade training in Nigeria bring innovative Safer Births tools and approach into all participating facilities.
Following the initial training of sixty mentors and facility champions from Borno and Gombe states, an exciting 5-day cascade training has now taken place at all Safer Births Bundle of Care (SBBC) facilities. The cascade training ensures all health personnel working to manage births in the facilities are trained in the Safer Births program approach, and importantly, to use the training simulators and clinical tools effectively.
In addition to lectures, skills stations, and simulation scenarios, the 5-day training included:
- Pre-and post-training knowledge checks using LIFT Assessments
- Guided simulation scenarios and debriefs supported by LIFT Scenarios, reinforce learning and critical thinking
- Many opportunities for hands-on orientation and practice with Safer Birth’s innovations (e.g. NeoNatalie Live, MamaNatalie, Upright Resuscitator and Penguin Newborn Suction).
- Peer-to-peer feedback sessions while using the NeoNatalie Live manikin
- Daily reflections and feedback, supporting the culture of continuous quality improvement.
This is the moment healthcare workers get to interact with the training tools that will support improved skills and confidence in managing emergencies that can occur on the day of birth. They also receive important orientation of specially designed clinical tools, like Moyo Fetal Heart Rate Monitor, which can support timely decision making through labour.
Helping Mothers and Babies Survive
The globally recognized Helping Mothers Survive: Bleeding After Birth course was delivered as part of the cascade training, ensuring all participants had a strong baseline understanding of how to manage the third stage of labour, recognition and management of uterine atony and manual removal of the placenta. The Essential Newborn Care 1 course was also delivered as part of the cascade training, with a strong focus on birth asphyxia and timely newborn resuscitation within the Golden Minute. These two courses are foundational and vital for all those managing births, globally.
Data-driven discussions
Throughout the cascade trainings, real facility data was used to drive discussions, which made quality improvement sessions both tangible and impactful for those involved. Participants analysed their own registers and delivery trends to identify actionable gaps.
On-going training
Facility Champions and Mentors will now embed regular, low-dose, high-frequency individual and team training on-site at facilities. It is this vital approach to training that can begin to translate into real lives saved.
The skills we gaining are truly comprehensive, the more we are doing, the more we feel much more confident. After the Facility Champion training in February, I told my colleagues, ‘With the tools like Moyo and NeoBeat, maternal and newborn care is about to become more manageable’. We could not wait to show them. Now, they are seeing these innovations for themselves.
Ivony Kamala concludes: “This is an exciting moment for SBBC in Nigeria as it is the beginning of what should be significant change and improvement in the care mothers and babies receive at these facilities. The motivation and resilience of the healthcare workers who participated and attended daily, despite the 40+ degree heat, has been remarkable”
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