Getting started in your unit

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PROMPT is a locally adapted and implemented course. It is run in your birthing unit with a local multi-disciplinary faculty. It is very much the opposite of an educational "away day" where a few staff members train off-site or in a single-discipline "silo". 

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Implementing PROMPT training is much more likely to be successful if you have an enthusiastic multi-disciplinary faculty of midwives, obstetricians and anaesthetists.  

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Sustaining PROMPT training will need support from a unit's management team and a local champion(s) happy to make running PROMPT training part of their job within your unit.

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Ideally, all staff providing maternity care within a unit should attend regular PROMPT training. This requires administrative support to ensure a record is kept of attendees. Staff timetables and the department's clinical workload may also need to be adjusted to ensure staff can attend.

 

Auckland and Christchurch have now run over 60 courses each and have regularly had potential faculty from other units attend PROMPT training to experience a course and see how they are run. The Auckland and Christchurch faculty have also visited other units to help them run their first PROMPT course.

 

Contact PROMPT New Zealand if you wish to attend a PROMPT course in Auckland or Christchurch or need help upskilling new local PROMPT faculty members. 

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From 2021 the New Zealand PROMPT faculty has run annual national updates and Train the Trainers (T3) courses with over 200 potential local faculty attending our sixT3 courses so far. 

 

More recently we have moved our T3 training online using the UK faculty's "iPROMPT" T3 course. This is a half day online course that new faculty can use to get ready for running a course locally.

 

You can access all the material you need to run PROMPT and also our "iPROMPT" course from our PROMPT Aotearoa "Learning Management Platform". 

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