NICU Family Support
NICU Family Resources
Through multidisciplinary collaboration and a dedicated and creative team, we make families comfortable and welcome in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Betty H. Cameron Women's and Children's Hospital. We are a family-centered facility and are comitted to the care of our tiny patients.
Some of the ways we improve a family's stay include:
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Family coordinator rounding in NICU
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Thursday night NICU family dinner
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Mother's Milk Club Luncheon
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Peer to Peer support for Ante-partum families includes rounding, NICU tours, and craft cart
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Homeward Bound class
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NICU Sibling story time, craft and snack event
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Dad to Dad Support (by request)
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Special holiday celebrations for NICU families and staff (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Summer BBQ, Labor Day)
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Semi-annual planting of the NICU Family garden
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3 Kangaroo-a-thons per year
NICU Family Coordinators and select Neonatal Family Advisors have engaged as valued team members on Quality Improvement work for over 8 years. We represent the family voice on numerous hospital based committees and QI teams, VON QI teams, and VON travel teams.
Some of our contributions through the years are listed below:
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Developmental Follow Up
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NHRMC Board of Trustees Quality & Patient Safety Retreat
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Practice Council
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NICU Model of Care-Kaizen Event
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NICU Model of Care Value Stream Mapping
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NICQ NEXT2-Teams and Teamwork
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iNICQ2016-Choosing Antibiotics Wisely
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NICQ Next-Optimizing Nutrition/Minimizing NEC
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iNICQ Improving outcomes for Infants & Families affected by Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
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NICQ Infection Control
