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Monday, September 27, 2010
: 2:45 PM
Title: Focus On the Environment: Individualized Developmental Care for the Neonate
Venetian
Discipline: Professional Issues (PI), Newborn Care (N)
Learning Objectives:
Submission Description:- Identify strategies to improve neonates' physical environment to promote safety and growth.
- Describe a plan for educating families, staff and colleagues on the importance of developmental interventions.
- Discuss effective implementation of developmental interventions into daily care by staff and families.
A NICU nurse is extremely important to the outcome of the infant. The nurse is not only responsible for the immediate needs of the infant but is also responsible for the person that infant is to become. To understand and protect their brain development is crucial!
In November 2007, Inova Fair Oaks Hospital (IFOH) hosted a presentation of Preemie for a Day, a program on neonatal developmental care offered by Children’s Medical Ventures. The program asked the question, do you have a Developmental Care Committee at your facility. The answer was no. Several of the NICU nurses returned to the unit and by February 2008 the IFOH Developmental Care Committee was born. The committee is composed of a multidisciplinary team that includes RN's, a neonatologist, and an occupational therapist. Our team has been become a catalyst for change in practice in our NICU as well as quality improvement. Evidence-based practice of developmental care was presented in many different avenues including several different types of in-services. The work of the commiteee has been responsible for bringing many developmental supportive care products to the NICU.
The Committee went through a process of identifying and providing clinical evidence to the department managers to support the implementation of developmental interventions for the neonates. This included delineating the physical support devices necessary, arranging for trialing the equipment on the unit, providing financial information to the manager for the desired equipment and purchasing the supplies. Once supplies were on the unit, the Committee realized that not all of their colleagues were fully supportive of the practice changes necessary for the program to be successful.
The committee members needed to educate their peers on the importance of developmental care. In a collaborated effort, by researching different areas, the committee put together a power point presentation called, Why Developmental Care in the NICU? The committee has given multiple in-services utilizing the power point presentation to educate NICU staff on the importance of developmental care, as well as staff from the Pediatric, Labor and Delivery, and Postpartum Units who sometimes float to the NICU. The Lactation Consultants also attended.
The evolution of this program in the NICU on staff and families has been tremendous. Staff and managers have attended national programs on neonatal developmental care and brought back additional interventions to try. Families, especially those who have previously had an infant in the NICU, have seen a difference in the neuromuscular development of the infant. The committee members are now attempting to secure funding for an intensive cohesive education program that would encompass all hospital staff who has any contact with or in the care of neonates. It would include establishing measurable outcomes regarding infant feeding, neurobehavioral growth, length of stay and cost.
We will share the process we went through in hopes of assisting other facilities to focus on the environment to create the best place for a neonate to grow.
In November 2007, Inova Fair Oaks Hospital (IFOH) hosted a presentation of Preemie for a Day, a program on neonatal developmental care offered by Children’s Medical Ventures. The program asked the question, do you have a Developmental Care Committee at your facility. The answer was no. Several of the NICU nurses returned to the unit and by February 2008 the IFOH Developmental Care Committee was born. The committee is composed of a multidisciplinary team that includes RN's, a neonatologist, and an occupational therapist. Our team has been become a catalyst for change in practice in our NICU as well as quality improvement. Evidence-based practice of developmental care was presented in many different avenues including several different types of in-services. The work of the commiteee has been responsible for bringing many developmental supportive care products to the NICU.
The Committee went through a process of identifying and providing clinical evidence to the department managers to support the implementation of developmental interventions for the neonates. This included delineating the physical support devices necessary, arranging for trialing the equipment on the unit, providing financial information to the manager for the desired equipment and purchasing the supplies. Once supplies were on the unit, the Committee realized that not all of their colleagues were fully supportive of the practice changes necessary for the program to be successful.
The committee members needed to educate their peers on the importance of developmental care. In a collaborated effort, by researching different areas, the committee put together a power point presentation called, Why Developmental Care in the NICU? The committee has given multiple in-services utilizing the power point presentation to educate NICU staff on the importance of developmental care, as well as staff from the Pediatric, Labor and Delivery, and Postpartum Units who sometimes float to the NICU. The Lactation Consultants also attended.
The evolution of this program in the NICU on staff and families has been tremendous. Staff and managers have attended national programs on neonatal developmental care and brought back additional interventions to try. Families, especially those who have previously had an infant in the NICU, have seen a difference in the neuromuscular development of the infant. The committee members are now attempting to secure funding for an intensive cohesive education program that would encompass all hospital staff who has any contact with or in the care of neonates. It would include establishing measurable outcomes regarding infant feeding, neurobehavioral growth, length of stay and cost.
We will share the process we went through in hopes of assisting other facilities to focus on the environment to create the best place for a neonate to grow.
