Learning and resources

• Assessment - Routine newborn assessment (PDF, 692kB)

• Breastfeeding - Establishing breastfeeding part 1: normal pathway (PDF, 804kB)

• Breastfeeding - Establishing breastfeeding part 2: pathway variances (PDF, 187kB)

• Hypoglycaemia - newborn (PDF, 229kB)

• Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (PDF, 392kB)

• Jaundice - neonatal (PDF, 583kB)

• Medicines - neonatal (PDF, 464kB)

• Newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 542kB)

• Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby (PDF, 439kB)

• Perinatal substance use - neonatal (PDF, 439kB)

• Respiratory distress and CPAP (PDF, 456kB)

• Resuscitation - neonatal (PDF, 345kB)

• Safer infant sleep (PDF, 909kB)

• Seizures - neonatal (PDF, 660kB)

• Stabilisation for retrieval - neonatal (PDF, 703kB)

• Term small for gestation age baby (PDF, 400kB)

• Antenatal corticosteroids

• Early onset Group B streptococcal disease

• Early pregnancy loss

• Gestational diabetes mellitus

• Homebirth - publicly funded

• Hypertension and pregnancy

• Induction of labour

• Instrumental vaginal birth

• Intrapartum fetal surveillance (PDF, 567kB)

• Intrapartum pain management

• Normal birth

• Pregnant women living in larger bodies and post bariatric surgery

• Perinatal mental health

• Perinatal substance use: maternal

• Perineal care

• Preconception and prenatal genetic screening

• Prelabour rupture of membranes - Preterm (PPROM)

• Prelabour rupture of membranes- Term (PROM)

• Preterm labour and birth

• Primary postpartum haemorrhage

• Rh D negative woman and pregnancy

• Stillbirth care

• Syphilis in pregnancy

• Termination of pregnancy

• Traumatic injury in pregnancy

• Vaginal birth after caesarean

• Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in pregnancy and the puerperium

• Antenatal corticosteroids

• Early onset Group B streptococcal disease

• Early pregnancy loss

• Gestational diabetes mellitus

• Homebirth - publicly funded

• Hypertension and pregnancy

• Induction of labour

• Instrumental vaginal birth

• Intrapartum fetal surveillance

• Intrapartum pain management

• Normal birth

• Pregnant women living in larger bodies and bariatric surgery

• Perinatal mental health

• Perinatal substance use: maternal

• Perineal care

• Prelabour rupture of membranes - Preterm (PPROM)

• Prelabour rupture of membranes- Term (PROM)

• Preconception and prenatal genetic screening

• Preterm labour and birth

• Primary postpartum haemorrhage

• Rh D negative woman and pregnancy

• Stillbirth care

• Syphilis in pregnancy

• Termination of pregnancy

• Trauma in pregnancy

• Vaginal birth after caesarean

• Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in pregnancy and the puerperium

• Assessment - Routine newborn

• Breastfeeding - Establishing breastfeeding

• Hypoglycaemia - newborn

• Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy

• Jaundice - neonatal

• Medicines - neonatal

• Newborn bloodspot screening

• Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby

• Perinatal substance use: neonatal

• Respiratory distress and CPAP

• Resuscitation - neonatal

• Safer infant sleep

• Seizures - neonatal

• Term small for gestational age

• Stabilisation for retrieval - neonatal

The Clinical Skills Workshop Neonatal respiratory distress and CPAP is offered by the Grantley Stable Neonatal Unit, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital as well as by a number of other Neonatal Units in Queensland. Contact your local educator for details. Resources align to the Queensland Clinical Guideline: Respiratory distress and CPAP

The online component of this clinical learning package (Neonatal CPAP CLR online - (NeoCPAP) is hosted by Clinical Skills Development Service. Registration is free.

For further information educators may contact Queensland Clinical Guidelines guidelines@health.qld.gov.au

• Neonatal resuscitation (Mar 2017)

• Perineal care: Hands on or hands off? (5 min, 17MB)

• Resuscitation - Neonatal: video and oxygen saturation monitoring (31 Aug 2017)

• Gestational diabetes mellitus (1 hour July 2025)

• Protecting your baby's airways - produced by Raising Children Network (2 minutes 5 seconds)

The Maternity Education Program (MEP) has been developed by the Clinical Skills Development Service (Queensland Health). The MEP uses a range of resources to guide maternity practitioners in staged learning and case-based education.

• Newborn Bloodspot Screening (NBS) online learning course
• Water immersion for labour and birth online learning package
• Neonatal CPAP CLR online (NeoCPAP)
• Neonatal Seizures (NEOS) online (NeoCPAP)

• RhD Immunoglobulin bloodsafe eLearning.

These maternity care courses are offered via iLearn by the Office of Rural and Remote Health (ORRH). Log into iLearn for course overview and enrolment.

Imminent Birth

• (ORRH-C) Imminent Birth
• Flowchart: Imminent birth (PDF, 420kB)

Neonatal resuscitation

• Neonatal Resuscitation First Response 2026
• Neonatal Resuscitation Advanced 2025

Neonatal stabilisation

• (ORRH-C) Neonatal Stabilisation

Participating in guideline development and completing online knowledge assessments may qualify for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours.

Different professional bodies have different criteria for CPD. It is the individual's responsibility to ascertain requirements, calculate the number of hours of active learning which have taken place and maintain a record of CPD activities.