Professionally designed courses for healthcare providers to advance your neonatal care competency.
Specializing In Neonatal Education, Skills, & Simulation
Education
Our amazing presentations, videos, and knowledge checks help to build a database of required wisdom to accurately diagnose and treat newborns and complex neonatal cases.
Procedural Skills
These hands-on courses are excellent initial or refresher training to ensure technical competency when the successful performance of high stakes skills can mean the difference between life and death.
Simulation-Based Training
Expert designed and executed simulations allows the learner(s) to display teamwork and apply their knowledge, skills and behaviors in a realistic environment without risking thesafety of an actualtiny human.
Our Core Services
A multidimensional approach to neonatal healthcare education and training.
Education
- See online modules
- Vary in length
Flexible online learning modules covering neonatal care, competencies & simulation-based training topics.
Simulation Based Training -NRP
Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Courses
- $188.00
- Hands-on 1-2 hours
Simulation portion of NRP certification course
9th Edition- Essentials or Advanced
Custom Simulation-Based Training Courses
- TBD
- Custom
Tailored simulation-based training programs based on client current level of competency and understanding, job requirements, and goals.
Comprehensive Procedural Skills Courses
- $2,500.00
- 6 hours
Hands-on training covering high-stakes neonatal clinical procedures.
PICC Course
- $1298
- 4 hours
Specialized training for neonatal PICC line insertion and care.
Defibrillator Course
- $188.00
- 1-2 hours
Learn arrythmia interpretation and hands-on application of the defibrillator for cardioversion, defibrillation or mechanical pacing in the neonatal population.
Expert Witness
- Schedule of fees on request
- Until case closed
Dr. Leigh Ann (Cates) McGlinn is a recognized, board certified, neonatal nurse practitioner, registered respiratory therapist, with a subspecialty in neonatal and pediatric care. certified healthcare simulation educator. She consults in legal proceedings related to neonatal medical malpractice, transport, standard of care/causation, birth injuries, cooling, ECMO, respiratory therapy, intubation and airway management, stabilization, resuscitation, congenital defects, genetic, endocrine and metabolic issues, pneumothoracies, high stakes skills, cardiac issues and mechanical ventilation.
Collaboratory Projects
The videos available below were made to address individual instructor inconsistencies within Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) courses. In addition, they demonstrate current NRP recommendations, and provide standardization needed for application of course research. These videos were made in collaboration with Dr. Nathan Sundgren, MD, PhD -Neonatologist at Texas Children’s Hospital. Click on videos and subscribe to view and utilize them in your NRP courses.
HOW IT ALL STARTED…
Dr. Leigh Ann (Cates) McGlinn’s academic qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas. A Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC- with preparation to function as an NNP. She also holds an Associates in Applied Science (AAS) – Nursing and Respiratory Care each from Odessa College in Odessa, Texas. She maintains national certification as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP-BC) and is recognized by the Arizona Board of Nurse Examiners as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN). In addition, she retains certification as a registered respiratory therapist (RRT) and holds a subspecialty certification in pediatric and neonatal respiratory care (NPS).
Dr. (Cates)McGlinn is trained as simulation specialist at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Pediatric Education (CAPE) and Harvard’s Institute for Medical Simulation. In addition, Dr. McGlinn is certified as a healthcare simulation educator (CHSE).
She has over 30 years of total bedside experience as a registered nurse and respiratory therapist in home health, general and adult, pediatric, and neonatal critical care nursing. Of those, over 20 years are as a neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP). She is committed to remaining clinically current and has experience in developmental pediatric follow-up.
Dr. (Cates) McGlinn has served as Assistant Professor with Baylor College of Medicine in Department of Pediatrics in the section of Neonatology. She has also served as faculty as Associate Professor at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), East Carolina University and Old Dominion University in their NNP Programs. Furthermore, Dr. McGlinn is the founder and director of McGlinn Institute Neonatal, LLC, and she is an experienced legal nurse consultant and expert witness.
Her academic interests include health care competency evaluation, simulation-based training, neonatal ECMO and respiratory modalities, as well as consulting as an expert witness. She is recently published and serves as a reviewer for multiple healthcare journals. Dr. McGlinn has also presented on multiple levels from local to international, and is well known on social media for her Procedural Skills, BabyDoc & Neonatal Knowledge Check series @McGlinnInstituteNeonatal
Multidimensional Competency Specialist
FORMAL EDUCATION
- Associates in Applied Science (AAS)- 1995
- Respiratory Care
- Odessa College, Odessa TX
- Associates in Applied Science (AAS)- 1998
- Nursing
- Odessa College, Odessa TX
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)-2005
- Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) Program
- Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)- 2014
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
BOARD CERTIFICATION
- Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP-BC)
- Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)
- Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care (NPS)
- Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE)
LICENSE TO PRACTICE
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- Respiratory Care Practitioner (RCP)
Advistory Board Members
Jennifer Arnold
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Dr. Arnold of Miami Florida is a neonatologist and healthcare simulation leader. She is passionate about the incorporation of simulation into healthcare as a tool to improve patient safety and outcomes. Dr. Arnold is currently the Medical Director of a state-of-the-art simulation center at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Education: Dr. Arnold completed her undergraduate degrees in Biology and Psychology at the University of Miami in Florida. She then completed her medical degree at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD and graduated in 2000. She attended a Pediatric Residency Program at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. During her fellowship in neonatology, she obtained a Master of Science in Medical Education from the University of Pittsburgh. She is Board Certified in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She was a NIH postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s Safar Center for Resuscitative Medicine from July 2006-July 2007 (NIH Training Grant # T32 HD40686).
Accomplishments: Dr. Arnold has over 20 peer reviewed publications. She has spoken both nationally and internationally on healthcare simulation education and has made numerous inspirational speeches for avenues such as the Texas Conference for Women, Shiners Hospital, March of Dimes and many more. She has received numerous awards
Sheryl L. Bishop
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Dr. Bishop earned her PhD in social psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, School of Nursing as of 2019. She has also served as faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the International Space University, Strasbourg, France. As an internationally recognized behavioral researcher in extreme environments, for the last 25 years Dr. Bishop has investigated human performance and group dynamics in teams in extreme, unusual environments, involving deep cavers, mountain climbers, desert survival groups, polar expeditioners, Antarctic winter-over groups and various simulations of isolated, confined environments for space, including a number of missions at remote habitats (e.g., Mars Desert Research Station, Utah, HiSEAS in Hawaii and the FMARS and Mars Project on Devon Island, Canada). She has been a grant reviewer for the European Space Agency’s Concordia Station, the Canadian Space Agency’s Life Science Directorate, the Australian Antarctic Science Division, and the Czech Science Foundation. She has over 60 publications (including contribution to NASA’s Historical Series on Psychology in Space) and over 50 scholarly presentations in both the medical and psychological fields. She is frequently sought out as a content expert by various media and has participated in multiple television documentaries on space and extreme environments by Discovery Channel, BBC and 60 Minutes.
LeAnn J. Chisholm
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Dr. Chisholm teaches nursing in the prelicensure and graduate program in the Dishman School of Nursing at Lamar University, Beaumont, TX and serves as Director of the Edna Horn Gay Learning Center: Simulation Program and Support Staff. Dr. Chisholm teaches prelicensure clinical nursing skills, graduate curriculum, and serves as Project Director for graduate evidence-based projects. Dr. Chisholm serves as Co-Chair of the Curriculum Committee and has assisted in leading the SON through two successful ACEN accreditation cycles. Currently, Dr. Chisholm is working with a team to obtain accreditation of the SON Simulation Center from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). Dr. Chisholm’s current research projects include patient safety, teamwork, incorporation of self-healing material in simulation manikin skin, creating IoT solutions to promote preventative healthcare in rural East Texas, and student learning outcomes associated with the use of high-fidelity simulation in nursing education.
JoAnne Gay Dishman School of Nursing Simulation Center: https://www.lamar.edu/arts-sciences/nursing/resources/high-fidelity-simulation-lab.html
Nathan C Sundgren
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Dr. Sundgren earned his MD and PhD at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. He went to the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas for Residency training in Pediatrics followed by a Fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. It was there at the University of Texas Southwestern and Parkland Memorial Hospital that he developed his love for neonatal resuscitation. He is now the Director if neonatal resuscitation education at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas and with Baylor College of Medicine. He has done several studies using simulation to learn more about best practices in neonatology and resuscitation.
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