Educational Perspectives: Bundling NRP: A Comprehensive Maternal Neonatal Resuscitation Program

Obstetric and neonatal care providers will rarely be required to carry out simultaneous maternal and neonatal resuscitation. However, if this event occurs, a perfect performance of basic life support, advanced cardiac life support with considerations for pregnancy, and neonatal resuscitation guidelines will afford the woman and her child the best chance for survival. Training for rare events with such high stakes is challenging. It is time to consider moving from a traditional life-support training format to one that is bundled with all of the life-support programs required for a specific unit. Organizing resuscitation training so that care providers from a specific unit train together allows them time to practice key nontechnical skills as a team. Team building in this manner supports the adoption of the cognitive, technical, and nontechnical skills required for this difficult event.