The ACoRN workshop is an interactive session that utilizes a skill-based, tool-based, case-based approach to learning. Simulations are an integral component of the workshop.
Like resuscitation, stabilization of the at-risk or unwell newborn is most effective when performed by a coordinated, interprofessional team. In keeping with this philosophy, ACoRN workshops are offered on site to centres with an interprofessional audience.
...an interprofessional team [is] characterized by its use of inclusive language, continual sharing of information between team members and a collaborative working approach. In [a] multidisciplinary team, the members [work] in parallel, drawing information from one another but [do] not have a common understanding of issues that could influence intervention. (Comparison of language used and patterns of communication in interprofessional and multidisciplinary teams. Sheehan D, Robertson L, Ormond T. J Interprof Care. 2007 Feb;21(1):17-30).
ACoRN assumes participants have completed the Neonatal Resuscitation Program course at a provider level. A brief review of core knowledge and skills in neonatal resuscitation is integrated into the ACoRN textbook and are included in some of the simulation activities.
