'This eLearning course has been updated in August 2024 to align with most recent evidence and updated resources’
The Safer Baby Bundle module provides evidence based information for maternity health care providers on the 5 elements of the bundle: Smoking Cessation, Fetal Growth Restriction (FGR), Decreased Fetal Movements (DFM), Side Sleeping and Timing of Birth.
The death of a baby is a devastating event for both the families and the health professionals looking after them. In partnership with the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ), the Stillbirth CRE has developed IMPROVE – IMproving Perinatal Mortality Review and Outcomes Via Education.
In order to try to answer the questions raised by such deaths, a structured approach is required. IMPROVE face-to-face workshops and eLearning modules are designed to address the educational needs of health professionals involved in maternity and newborn care in managing perinatal death based on the Care Around Stillbirth and Neonatal Death (CASaND) guideline.
This includes supporting healthcare professionals respond to women and families who have experienced stillbirth, conduct perinatal autopsy and mortality reviews, and communicate with bereaved parents.
This course builds upon the established Safer Baby Bundle eLearning course to provide additional support to health professionals working with women and families of refugee and migrant backgrounds during pregnancy. Modules include practical guidance on how families would like to have conversations about stillbirth prevention, skills for working well with interpreters, and opportunities to strengthen culturally safe and trauma responsive approaches to pregnancy care.
This training package is designed to support interpreters working in diverse pregnancy care settings across Australia. Modules include information about the design and delivery of maternity care in Australia, common tests and investigations offered during pregnancy, approaches to stillbirth prevention, and interpreter wellbeing and self-care.
This Elearning course assists health professionals to be able to recognise and understand the disparity in Indigenous stillbirth rates, compared to non-Indigenous stillbirth rates, have a better understanding of the historical and contemporary issues that impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s health, and recognise the importance of culturally safe care in health to improve their own practice and perinatal outcomes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
The nature of providing care around the time a baby dies is intense and complex.
Those working in maternity and newborn care play a central role in supporting families—often across the continuum of care,
from the moment of bad news through birth, the postpartum period, and into future pregnancies.
This short eLearning course is designed to support your wellbeing as you navigate this important work.