An educational guide and quality improvement tool for healthcare providers to provide essential newborn care including assessment and continued care from 60 minutes after birth to discharge, to be used both during the training and in the facility.

Essential Newborn Care 2 (ENC2) is the second part of the WHO Essential Newborn Care Course (ENCC). The ENC2 curriculum focuses on assessment and continued care from 60 minutes after birth to discharge. It is the updated version of Essential Care for Every Baby and Essential Care for Small babies.

If you want to hold an ENC2 training, you need the ENC2 curriculum and the following:

• NeoNatalie Newborn Simulator Complete
• PreemieNatalie
• MamaBreast

The ENC2 course takes approximately 2 days to teach. Read more about all ENC courses here.

Materials can be viewed and downloaded here or on the WHO website.