Drill Kit

Neonatal Respiratory Distress

This Drill Kit tests the emergency response to neonatal respiratory distress occurring in a community birth setting including emergency transport of a neonatal patient. 

Learning Objectives

  • Identify and respond to neonatal respiratory distress in the community birth setting.
  • Review ways to promote person-focused care during emergencies.
  • Identify need for higher level of care and initiate appropriate hospital transfer.
  • Practice collaboration that adheres to relevant transfer protocols with warm hand-offs across levels of care.
  • Communicate effectively, equitably, and with dignity, with the patient, support people, and additional healthcare personnel in the event of an antepartum transfer.
  • Use debriefing skills to promote equity and ensure integration of individual and collective learning.

This drill kit is appropriate for:

  • Home birth practices
  • Birth centers
  • Other facilities or units requiring patient transport emergency surgery or stabilization (e.g. emergency department or community hospital)

And may further engage:

  • EMS or other emergency transport partners
  • Labor & Birth unit and other relevant units at the referral hospital

To test the process of a neonatal emergency transfer.

Publish Information

Authored by:
Jennifer Johnson, MS, CNM

Reviewed by:
Alexa Dougherty, MSN, PHN, CNM
Amy Romano, MBA, MSN, CNM, FACNM
Julie Moon, CNM

Last updated: December 2024
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