Skin-to-Skin for Intubated Patients

Skin-to-Skin for Intubated Patients Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital NICU asked for best practices around securing breathing tubes during skin-to-skin holding. Thank you to the members who shared their unit’s processes, responses have been collated below....

Addressing Food Insecurity Among NICU Parents

Addressing Food Insecurity Among NICU Parents Submitted by a Taskforce Member: Patients can be transferred to our Level IV NICU resulting in parents and families traveling long distances to be at their baby’s bedside. Social Services can assist with on campus...

Child Life Services in the NICU

Help us support NICUs implementing or strengthening Child Life Services in their units.  If your unit doesn’t offer Child Life Services, what are their barriers? Hasn’t been the priority to advocate for this position since we are advocating for nursing...
Holding During Cooling

Holding During Cooling

Help us support units seeking to implement holding during cooling for infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). If no, what challenges does your unit face that prevent holding during cooling? Provider buy-in Lack of information [Lack of] aEEG...
Trauma-Informed Care Education

Trauma-Informed Care Education

Help us support NICUs working toward implementing Trauma-Informed Care education for NICU professionals. If yes, please share what you can about your program: We have done a brief, one-time offering, summarizing from a conference I attended. It was optional. I would...