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H4C - Enhancing Communication and Response for Care of Newborn at Risk for Neonatal Complications

Wednesday, June 17, 2015 : 9:15 AM

Title: H4C - Enhancing Communication and Response for Care of Newborn at Risk for Neonatal Complications

Room 101 (Long Beach Convention Center)
Katie E Donohue, BSN, RN, CNML, RNC-EFM, , Labor & Birth and Maternal Special Care Unit, Yale- New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
Theresa Hyland, BSN, BAS, RN, RNC-EFM, Donna Diers Award , Labor & Birth and Maternal Special Care Unit, Yale- New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT

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

Learning Objectives:
  • Recognize opportunities to improve communication systems and processes amongst areas and disciplines for care of the newborn.
  • Describe methods to coordinate and implement restructure of informal communication system and facilitate organization collaboration
  • Derive approach to implement enhanced communication systems and processes amongst disciplines and areas

  • Submission Description:
    Enhanced communication system and response amongst care providers across departments and disciplines in order provide rapid and effective care for the compromised or the potential to be compromised newborn. The Newborn Response System is standardized throughout the organization integrating the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Labor and Birth, Well Newborn Nursery, and the Adult-Pediatric Emergency Departments.

    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.