AWHONN Convention
 

Sessions

Enhancing Outcomes with Donor Milk in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Title: Enhancing Outcomes with Donor Milk in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Longhorn Hall D (Gaylord Grapevine)
Janessa Canals-Alonso, RNC-NIC, MSN, MHA , NICU, St Joseph's Children's Hospital, Tampa, FL
Marcia K. Schulz, MS, RNC-OB, IBCLC , Donor Milk Program/NICU, St Joseph's Women's Hospital, Tampa, FL

Discipline: Neonatal (N)

Learning Objectives:
  • -State the elements of establishing the Donor Milk Program -Define Infant Feeding Criteria and development of orders sets
  • -Verbalize innovative creation of a centralized process, clinical standards, policies and procedures and staff education -Interpret data collections tools and Statistics
  • -Illustrate standards of best practice -List clinical outcomes of an exclusive human milk feeding protocol in the NICU setting

    • Submission Description:
    Human milk is the "gold standard" for infant nutrition and has specific benefits to premature infants. In the absence of mother’s own breastmilk, donor human milk is the best alternative. BayCare Health System took a leading role by establishing the Donor Milk Program advocating for an exclusive human milk diet. Outcomes include: increase in the use of human milk, increase in breastmilk rate at discharge, decrease in length of stay and enhanced linear growth.

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