Leaning in for Skin to Skin: Using the Lean Process to Acheive Skin to Skin for c-Sections

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Leaning in for Skin to Skin: Using the Lean Process to Acheive Skin to Skin for c-Sections

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Jackie Weaver, BSN, RN , Mother Baby, Centra, Lynchburg, VA
Stacey B. Tribbett, MSN, RNC-OB , Birth Center, Centra, Lynchburg, VA
Kim Price, MBA, MSN, RN , Centra, Lynchburg, VA
Christine Carpenter, BS , Centra, Lynchburg, VA

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N)

Learning Objectives:
  • •Utilize process maps developed through the LEAN process to successfully implement skin to skin after cesarean section
  • •Summarize how LEAN can assist with process change
  • •Value opportunities for skin to skin following cesarean delivery in the learner’s hospital system

    • Submission Description:
    In the pursuit of Baby Friendly designation, our hospital successfully managed skin to skin following vaginal deliveries, but met challenges with cesarean patients. In order to overcome barriers and challenges to process change, our Birth Center and Mother Baby units partnered with our process improvement team to engage in a LEAN process. The LEAN journey included assessment of practice, development of process maps, staff education, and successful initiation of skin to skin for cesarean section patients.

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