Family Presence and Communication in the Newborn Unit — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Family Presence and Communication in the Newborn Unit in 18 board-style clinical cases with worked explanations. Each case gives you a clinical vignette, four options, the correct answer, and an explanation of why each of the other three is wrong, with the guideline or textbook it follows named on the answer.

Board-style teaching questions for paediatricians and trainees preparing for paediatric board, MRCPCH and licensing examinations. Written from published guidelines and standard paediatric textbooks, with the source named on every answer.

The 18 cases, in order

1. Caught in the corridor
2. Whoever happened to be free
3. One of them still in theatre
4. The brother nobody mentioned
5. A box for later
6. Asking the wrong person
7. Asked at the worst minute
8. Nobody mentioned her breasts
9. Waiting for them to ring
10. Following on later
11. Somewhere on the motorway
12. Four nights in a chair
13. Discussed at the cotside
14. Baby of, and a surname
15. Updated, they understand
16. Straight on to the next shift
17. Once, with a stranger
18. A year on, what they said

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: A follow-up appointment booked before they left, A photograph of the baby.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Both of them, in a room, sitting down, with time afterwards.
• The person who repeats it afterwards has to have heard it.
• Wait the hours it takes to tell them together.
• Ask about the sibling. Nobody in that room will raise it.
• Offer memory making before, not after. Do it with them.
• Ask this family. A faith is not a set of instructions.

Work through the deck once for recognition, then again a week later to test yourself — each question gives the answer and explains why every other option fails.

More from this system: all neonatology case decks · pediatric reference values.