Transitioning to Couplet Care: New Horizons at St. Francis Hospital

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Transitioning to Couplet Care: New Horizons at St. Francis Hospital

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Cindy S. Baker, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, CCE , St. Francis Hospital, Charleston, SC
Stephanie T. Naumann, BSN, RN , St. Francis Hospital, Charleston, SC

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N), Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  • Identify 2 barriers in transitioning from traditional maternity care to couplet care.
  • Describe 2-3 interventions to prepare staff for the transition to couplet care.
  • Verbalize 2 methods to increase employee engagement and satisfaction.

    • Submission Description:
    The poster depicts St. Francis Hospital's journey to couplet care; sharing challenges, adjustments and successes. We will show how nursing staff navigated the change from fragmented traditional maternity care to evidenced based couplet care. Using process improvement strategies, couplet care is established with a few results are still pending.

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