Bringing Best Practice to the Bedside: The Fast Track from a New Practice Recommendation to Nurse Sensitive Indicator

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Bringing Best Practice to the Bedside: The Fast Track from a New Practice Recommendation to Nurse Sensitive Indicator

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Alyssa Elaine Leimberger, RNC-OB, BSN , Antepartum & Mother Infant Unit, Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond, VA
Jennifer Brickey, RN , Mother Infant Unit, Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond, VA
Kasondra Lynn Miller, RNC-OB, C-EFM , Labor and Delivery, Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond, VA

Discipline: Childbearing (CB)

Learning Objectives:
  • The learner will be able to describe how to implement a perinatal Tdap vaccination program.
  • The learner will be able to list the indications for Tdap vaccination.
  • The learner will explain the impact nurses have on tdap vaccination rates.

    • Submission Description:
    Current perinatal Tdap recommendations focus on protecting the newborn, both directly by vaccinating the pregnant mother (to maximize maternal antibody response and passive immunity transfer) and indirectly by cocooning (ensuring up to date vaccination status of care givers). Learn how a community hospital successfully brought these recommendations to the bedside by maximizing the EMR, providing ongoing staff and patient education, utilizing structured surveillance, implementing a nurse driven Tdap protocol and starting a caregiver vaccination program.

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    The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.