Improving Care of the Small Baby

Authors

Beckie Palmer, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Abdebayo Oshodi, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Brandy Huitt, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Kaylee Hurt, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Pamela Kliethermes, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Trudy Koons, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Patricia Lanzer, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Ashley Mirabile, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Allyson Owen, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Christian Anthony Schneider, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Betsi Anderson, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Steven Olsen, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow

Publication Date

10-2019

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Abstract

Hierarchy of Aims:

• Global Aim: Create a Small Baby Unit for infants admitted to our NICU that arebirth, in which 90% of our patients are admitted to F pod on day of admission, by March 2019
• Interim Aim: Staff 80% of our micropremie patients with a Small Baby Team nurse from admission until >32 weeks by May 2019.
• Sub Aim: Increase rates of developmentally appropriate care (2 person cares, kangaroo care compliance) by 50% by August 2019.

MeSH Keywords

Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; Infant, Extremely Premature; Quality Improvement; Pediatric Nursing

Keywords

Small Baby Unit; micropremie

Disciplines

Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities | Critical Care Nursing | Health and Medical Administration | Pediatric Nursing | Pediatrics

Recommended Citation

Palmer, Beckie; Oshodi, Abdebayo; Huitt, Brandy; Hurt, Kaylee; Kliethermes, Pamela; Koons, Trudy; Lanzer, Patricia; Mirabile, Ashley; Owen, Allyson; Schneider, Christian Anthony; Anderson, Betsi; and Olsen, Steven, "Improving Care of the Small Baby" (2019). Posters. 136.
https://scholarlyexchange.childrensmercy.org/posters/136