Queensland Clinical Guidelines Translating evidence into best clinical practice

• 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

• Obesity and pregnancy (including 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

• Trauma 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

• Obesity and pregnancy (including post 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. The clinical skills workshop and clinical learning resources (CLR) align to the Queensland Clinical Guideline: Respiratory distress and CPAP.

• Clinical learning resource (CLR) (PDF, 1240kB) - contains information, activities and assessments for workshop attendees
• CLR response booklet (DOC, 543kB) - record your responses to activities and assessments in the CLR
• CLR reading list (PDF, 63kB) - list of readings cited in the CLR
• CLR education presentation (PDF, 2300kB) - accompanying presentation for the workshop

To access the CLR marking guide and the full list of readings, educators may contact Queensland Clinical Guidelines at 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)

• Safer infant sleep (1:02 hour Sept 2022)

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

• RhD Immunoglobulin bloodsafe eLearning.

These maternity care courses are offered via iLearn by the PaRROT Program (Queensland Health). Log into iLearn for course overview and enrolment.

Imminent Birth

• (16-PaRROT-C) Imminent Birth 2022
• Flowchart: Imminent birth (PDF, 420kB)

Neonatal resuscitation

• (PaRROT-C) Neonatal Resuscitation First Response 2023
• (PaRROT-C) Neonatal Resuscitation Advanced 2023

Neonatal stabilisation

• (PaRROT-C) Neonatal Stabilisation 2023

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.