VON Learning Community
Project Warm Welcome
We are leveraging the knowledge and efforts of all 1,200+ VON members to address the topic of admission temperature in neonatal care.
50,000 more infants can be normothermic on admission. We need all VON members worldwide working together to achieve this goal.
Why Focus on Admission Temperature?
According to VON data, more than 50,000 infants are admitted outside the normal temperature range each year. The effects of being too cold or too hot impact infants of all gestations and birth weights, inborn and transports. This is a clear opportunity for improvement among all levels of care and geographic locations.
The complications are particular to each sub-population (the impact of being cold on admission for a very preterm infant are different than a term infant), so VON members will work together within the VON learning community on specific topics to address the areas of improvement most relevant to their own local context.
Project Warm Welcome is something that we can all work on and improve in together.
How Will We Participate?
VON will provide:
- Regular webinars
- Interactive driver diagram of evidence-based practices
- Guidance on effective quality improvement processes
- Foundational QI education
- Online discussion and resource-sharing
- Measurement of relevant unit-level practices
Quality Improvement with VON
We facilitate shared learning among multidisciplinary teams to support improvement that fits with each centers’ local context and leads to better outcomes for infants and families worldwide.
Additional Resources
VON Commons
Quality Improvement Foundations
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