Improving safe sleep practices in an urban inpatient newborn nursery and neonatal intensive care unit.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2022

Identifier

DOI: 10.1038/s41372-021-01288-z

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To improve safe sleep compliance in a newborn nursery (NN) and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to >80% in 1 year.

STUDY DESIGN: Prospective quality improvement study of infants admitted to a NN and NICU. Interventions were targeted at parent education, staff education, and system processes.

RESULTS: Compliance with safe sleep improved to >80% in both units. Tracking of process measures revealed NICU parents received safe sleep education 98-100% of the time. No change was observed in the balancing measures. Transfers from the NN to the NICU for temperature instability did not increase. Parent satisfaction with discharge preparedness did not change (98.2% prior to and 99.6% after).

CONCLUSION: We achieved improved compliance with safe sleep practices in our NN and NICU through education of staff and parents and improved system processes. We believe this will translate to improved safe sleep practices used by parents at home.

Journal Title

Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association

Volume

42

Issue

4

First Page

515

Last Page

521

MeSH Keywords

Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Inpatients; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; Parents; Prospective Studies; Sleep; Sudden Infant Death

Keywords

Neonatal Intensive Care Units; Parents; Prospective Studies; Sleep; Sudden Infant Death

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