Objectives :

• • Reflect on families and our personal experiences of family centered care & parental involvement
  • Examine the realities & stressors of NICU families
  • Discover parental perspectives of the NICU experience
  • Discover how to develop therapeutic relationships using the Guarded Alliance Model
  • identify methods of communicating with families
  • Discuss ways to enhance Family Centered Care
  • Explore case studies and engage participants in reflective discussion
  • Identify different roles and characteristics that are essential to any team
  • Define Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) and its effects of patient care
  • Identify factors to contribute and strengthen IPC
  • Discuss the importance of effective interprofessional communication
  • To provide a comprehensive neonatal care curriculum that integrates physiologic, developmental and family centered care perspectives into clinical care
  • Enhance mastery, confidence and competence by building on existing knowledge, skill and experience
  • Enhance nurses knowledge and implementation of theoretical frameworks that support evidenced based best practice in neonatal nursing
  • Integrate knowledge and skill required for neonatal nursing into the clinical setting
  • Discuss and debate new principles of neonatal care in a safe environment that supports reflection and examination of professional practice, values and goals
  • Identify barriers and ways to improve our personal interprofessional communication
  • Discuss ways in which you can improve interprofessional collaboration and communication in your own practice

Outline:

• Parental Presence & Family Centered Care
• Interprofessional Collaboration & Communication in the NICU
• Introduction to Neonatal Nursing
• Maternal/Fetal development
• Infant nutrition and thermoregulation
• Kangaroo care in NICU
• Neonatal Medication administration
• Developmental care