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Engage with a range of videos, podcasts, interactive learning, resources, and events designed to enhance your knowledge and professional development and learn more about NIDCAP training and joining the NFI.
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Our Learning Centre offers a combination of free and paid content to support your development, with pricing for fee-based resources dependent on your membership level – please see the overview below.
| Membership Category | Pricing |
| Non-Members | Full Price |
| NFI Allied and Family Members | Discounted rates |
| NFI Professional & Professional-in-Training Members | Complimentary |
Non-Members: Free
Program Guide
Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP)
Non-Members: Free
10 Pearls of Wisdom – Multilingual
These NIDCAP-based considerations are for parents with babies in the intensive care nursery.
Non-Members: Free
Eat, Sleep and Console: Assessment of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrom within the NIDCAP Model of Care
A presentation by Gretchen Lawhon, PhD, RN, FAAN exploring the care of infants with opioid withdrawal syndrome.
Non-Members: Free
Skin-to-Skin Holding in the NICU
Dorothy Vittner, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior NIDCAP Trainer, presents the multiple effects of skin-to-skin holding
Non-Members: Free
Can I Hold my NICU Baby?
Latoshia Rouse, mother to infants born prematurely, about about the benefits of Kangaroo Care for parents and babies
Non-Members: Free
How Can I Help my Baby’s Brain Development?
Gretchen Lawhon, PhD, RN, FAAN, addresses questions that parents often ask regarding how they can help optimize their baby’s development
Non-Members: Free
How Does my Baby Grow?
Gretchen Lawhon, PhD, RN, FAAN, reflects on the importance of parental presence and nurturance in a baby’s growth and development
Non-Members: Free
Being Admitted to the NICU?
Jennifer Degl, MS, makes suggestions on the types of questions parents may need to ask upon their baby’s admission to the NICU
Non-Members: Free
Does My Baby Feel Pain?
Melissa Johnson, PhD, discusses parents’ concerns about pain in the NICU and strategies that can be used by them to support their infants
Non-Members: Free
Neurobehavioral Assessments from Admission to Discharge: Engaging Families in the NICU: A Family-Centered Approach Before and After Discharge
Gretchen Lawhon, PhD, RN, FAAN explores the APIB and NIDCAP neurobehavioral evaluations as they are utilized in the NICU and in a transitional follow up program.
Non-Members: Free
New NICU parent
Jennifer Degl, MS, offers recommendations to parents who are new to the NICU
Non-Members: Free
NIDCAP Nursery Certification: Changing Hospital Care for Infants and Their Families
NIDCAP Federation International presents the NIDCAP Nursery Program and certification process.
Non-Members: Free
NIDCAP: One Family’s Story
One family’s experience with the support of NIDCAP professionals as they navigate the complex early days of their premature infant’s life.
Non-Members: Free
What is Life Like after the NICU?
Latoshia Rouse, mother to infants born prematurely, reflects about life after the newborn intensive care unit for parents and babies
Non-Members: Free
Supporting Parents to Actively Participate in Infant Care Activities
Dorothy Vittner, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior NIDCAP Trainer, talks about the importance of parent participation in the care of their infant while in the NICU
Non-Members: Free
Understanding Infant Behavior
Dorothy Vittner, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior NIDCAP Trainer, reflects on how observing the infant helps parents to better support them
Non-Members: Free
Preparing for Discharge from the NICU
Gretchen Lawhon, PhD, RN, FAAN, addresses how parents can prepare or discharge from the newborn intensive care unit
Non-Members: Free
Taking your Baby Home
Jennifer Degl, MS, talks about taking your baby home from the NICU
Non-Members: Free
What do I Need to Know When in the NICU?
Melissa Johnson, PhD, offers advice to parents as they navigate the NICU experience
Non-Members: Free
Why is My Baby Sleeping so Much?
James Helm, PhD, explains the meaning of infants’ sleep and awake times
Non-Members: Free
What is the NIDCAP Approach?
Jim Helm, PhD, presents the main attributes of the NIDCAP approach to preterm infant care
Non-Members: Free
What is Developmental Care?
Jim Helm, PhD, describes the developmental approach to preterm infant care
Non-Members: Free
Relationship Based Care
A presentation by Jim Helm, PhD, exploring the attributes and impact of relationship-based care in the NICU.
Non-Members: Free
Episode 1: How NICU Babies Communicate
Heidelise Als, PhD, talks about the behavioral communication of infants
Non-Members: Free
Episode 2: NICU Family Partnerships
Jeniffer Degl, Latoshia Rouse and Melissa Johnson reflect about family partnerships in the NICU
Non-Members: Free
Episode 3: NIDCAP Goes Beyond The NICU
James Helm, PhD, talks about the NIDCAP approach and its significance after NICU hospitalization
Non-Members: Free
Episode 4: Everyone Matters in the NICU
Dr. Gretchen Lawhon and Dr. Dorothy Vittner talk about the NIDCAP Nursery Program and its role in creating supportive and nurturing hospitalization environments.
Non-Members: Free
Episode 5: Everything Matters in the NICU
Dr. Gretchen Lawhon and Dr. Dorothy Vittner talk about the NIDCAP Nursery Program and NIDCAP Nursery Certification.