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Quality Improvement and Education

Collaborative Spotlight: All Care is Brain Care

Spotlight Lessons

About the Course

The Collaborative Spotlight provides segmented lessons that focus on key areas of All Care is Brain Care. Lessons span multiple content areas including Families as Partners, Positioning and Handling and Skin-to-Skin, Teamwork and Culture, Acquired Brain Injury, and Measurement.

VON provides continuing education (CME/CNE) credits for unlimited staff at participating centers after completing each lesson. Collaborative Spotlight lessons range from 0.25 to 0.75 CME/CNE.

The Collaborative Spotlight provides foundational elements of the All Care is Brain Care collaborative that are useful for new teams joining NICQ or iNICQ.

How to Access the Course

This course is included for Quality Circle members (NICQ and iNICQ) and centers with an Education Subscription. Members associated with enrolled centers can find the course on the My QI Programs section of the VON member portal.

New Quality Circle Membership Inquiry

Quality Circle member programs include: iNICQ “All Care is Brain Care,” Collaborative Spotlight, Quality Improvement Foundations, and Responding to Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.

Cost: $7,500

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New Education Subscription Inquiry

Education Subscriptions include the Collaborative Spotlight, Quality Improvement Foundations, and Responding to Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome courses.

Cost: Annual fees for the education subscription are dependent on NICU level.

  • Level 3 and Level 4 NICU: $1,500
  • Level 2 NICU: $500
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Curriculum

Families as Partners

Family Partnership
Duration: 15 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.25 credits
Presenters: Marybeth Fry, MEd / Kristi Magida

Families as Super Neuroprotectors
Duration: 30 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.50 credits
Presenters: Elizabeth Rogers MD / Paige Church MD

Communicating Neurological Prognosis with Families
Duration: 45 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.75 credits
Presenters: Sonia Bonifacio MD / Elizabeth Rogers MD / Betsy Pilon / Monica Lemon MD

Optimizing Brain Care in the NICU Through Staff and Family Partnerships – Getting Started
Duration: 45 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.75 credits
Presenters: Deb Simms PhD, RNC-NIC / Sarah Pearce MD / Marybeth Fry MEd

Optimizing Brain Care in the NICU Through Staff and Family Partnerships – The Discovery Phase
Duration: 30 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.50 credits
Presenters: Deb Simms PhD, RNC-NIC / Sarah Pearce MD / Marybeth Fry MEd

Optimizing Brain Care in the NICU Through Staff and Family Partnerships – The Analysis Phase
Duration: 30 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.50 credits
Presenters: Deb Simms PhD, RNC-NIC / Sarah Pearce MD / Marybeth Fry MEd / Karen Bong

Optimizing Brain Care in the NICU Through Staff and Family Partnerships – Co-Design
Duration: 30 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.50 credits
Presenters: Deb Simms PhD, RNC-NIC / Sarah Pearce MD / Marybeth Fry MEd

Positioning and Handling

Positioning and Handling
Duration: 30 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.50 credits
Presenters: Sonia Bonifacio MD / Bobbi Pineda PhD / Kati Knudsen PT

Implementation of Skin to Skin Care for Preterm Infants
Duration: 30 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.50 credits
Presenter: Katelin Kramer MD

Neuroprotection Through Early Skin to Skin and Zero Separation Also for Sick and Preterm Infants
Duration: 45 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.75
Presenter: Stina Kleming MD

 

Teamwork and Culture

Building a Culture Where All Care is Brain Care
Duration: 30 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.50
Presenters: Sonia Bonifacio MD / Elizabeth Rogers MD / Mary Coughlin MD / Erick Ridout MD

Equitable Care Throughout
Duration: 30 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.50 credits
Presenters: Sonia Bonifacio MD / Veronica Escobar / Elizabeth Rogers MD

Caring for the Caregiver: Ensuring Inclusive Support and Care
Duration: 45 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.75 credits
Presenter: Krystle Ellis

Acquired Brain Injury

Preventing Intraventricular Hemorrhage (IVH)
Duration: 30 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.50 credit hours
Presenter: Roger Soll MD

Quality Improvement Interventions and IVH in Preterm Infants
Duration: 15 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.25 credits
Presenters: Erika Edwards PhD / Elizabeth Rogers MD

Optimizing Umbilical Cord Management for Term and Preterm Newborns
Duration: 45 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.75 credits
Presenter: Anup Katheria MD

Optimizing Neurological Outcomes for Preterm Babies
Duration: 30 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.50 credits
Presenter: Professor Karen Luyt

Measurement

VON’s Sequence to Achieve Change
Duration: 30 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.50 credits
Presenters: John Lester BSc / John McGregor EdD

Measurement: How Will We Know Change Is an Improvement?
Duration: 45 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.75 credits
Presenters: Jan Schriefer DrPH / John Lester BsC / Noura Nickel MD / Fauzia Shakeel MD

Measurement for Improvement
Duration: 45 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.75 credits
Presenter: Heather Kaplan MD

Using Your VON Data to Support Quality Improvement from Start to Finish
Duration: 45 minutes
Credit Hours: 0.75 credits
Presenters: Heather Kaplan MD / Erika Edwards PhD

Turn Knowledge into Improvement!

VON Quality Circle members can participate in all courses and programs, including the iNICQ improvement collaborative. By participating in a VON collaborative, you and your team can apply structured quality improvement to focused QI projects and turn knowledge into improved outcomes for infants and families at your center.

See your Quality Circle membership options and benefits. 

Collaborative Spotlight is a benefit of Quality Circle membership

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