This is a video showing the different procedures performed during the Essential Newborn Care (ENC) protocol. For those who will be taking the board exams, I suggest you familiarize yourself with this.

Newborns undergo profound physiologic changes at the moment of birth, as they are released from a warm, snug, dark liquid-filed environment that has met all of their basic needs, into a chilly, unbounded, brightly lit, gravity based outside world. Within minutes after being plunged into this strange environment, a newborn’s body must initiate respirations and accommodate a circulatory system to [...]

Essential Newborn Care: Unang Yakap Campaign/Program by DOH & WHO which includes procedures, guidelines, and important information.

On December 7, 2009, the Department of Health launched the Unang Yakap Campaign. With this campaign, the DOH aims to cut down infant mortality in the Philippines by at least half.