All Care is Brain Care
Promote Positive Sensory Experiences & Relationships

About this VON QI Collaborative Topic
The environment in the NICU is vastly different than the infant’s experience prior to delivery and more extreme than the experience families hope for after their infant’s birth. Creating a supportive and nurturing environment for families can encourage healthy and thriving brain structures as critically ill infants continue to develop in intensive care.
In this topic group of the All Care is Brain Care collaborative, teams will learn from expert faculty and each other to explore and implement evidence-based potentially better practices through structured quality improvement processes to:
- minimize separation of the infant and family
- establish environments prioritizing positive experiences for all of the infant’s developing senses
This is a potential topic area for 2025-2026. Teams enrolling in NICQ for 2025-2026 can register their interest in this topic (contact John Lester for more information). Final topics will be announced and iNICQ enrollment will open in late summer 2024.
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All Care is Brain Care QI Collaborative
“Promote Positive Sensory Experiences & Relationships” is a topic area of focus for teams participating in the 2025 All Care is Brain Care collaborative. Participating teams choose a topic most relevant for their center, and then choose a membership level: NICQ or iNICQ.
All teams in either NICQ or iNICQ will benefit from:
- Webinars led by experts in the topic (5-6 per year)
- Interactive toolkits of potentially better practices and evidence-based change ideas
- Recorded webinars and toolkits from other topic areas in All Care is Brain Care
- Quality Improvement Foundations online course for all staff
- CME/CNE for all webinars and courses (including all videos from other topic areas in the collaborative)
- MOC Part 4 credits for physicians (with submission of a poster)

Newborn Improvement Collaborative for Quality
Includes: Small group collaboration and continuous feedback/coaching from colleagues and faculty, dedicated faculty team, additional “homeroom” meetings, in-person meetings (February 2025, Spring 2026, and two days at the Quality Congress in Fall 2026).
To join NICQ or request more information, contact John Lester for more information.

iNICQ: Internet-Based Newborn Improvement Collaborative for Quality
Includes: Virtual collaboration with topical community throughout the year and a 1-day in-person meeting at the 2026 Quality Congress.
Join as a Quality Circle member and participate in iNICQ, or contact Pam Ford, Program Coordinator, for more information.