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Upcoming
important dates, next steps for the SIVB Initiative...
(The Support for Birth initiative's weekly email newsletter comes out every Tuesday. As a reminder, it is your job as key contact to share relevant information with other team members at your hospital.)
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Baseline data collection
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|  We have received October data from most hospitals at this point, and November data has started to trickle in. Please send COPIES of your November forms by the end of this week to:
Keith M. Cochran
P.O. Box 1117
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Let us know if we can help in any way with your baseline data collection process.
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Team Champions
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|  Do you have all three champions in place for your team (nurse, physician and hospital)? Have you told us who they are? If you need to update your team's roster, email Jessica Phipps at jphipps@email.unc.edu. These three champions, in addition to other team members, are essential voices to enable your team to take steps toward reducing the c-section rate. The hospital champion should be someone above the level of unit manager who can truly bring the support of the institution to your team's work. This person may not be as actively involved in the day-to-day work on this initiative.
Please let us know if you still do not have a physician engaged as your physician champion at this time; Dr. Chescheir is available to reach out to obstetricians and is happy to respond to their questions and concerns.
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Upcoming Webinars
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|  Several national organizations are offering webinars next week that may be of interest to teams participating in the Support for Birth initiative:
National Perinatal Information Center: Obesity in Pregnancy
Thursday, December 16, 12-1pm
Presenters: Haywood Brown, MD, Chair of OB Department at Duke University Medical Center and Cheryl Holsworth, RN, MSA, CBN, Senior Specialist for Bariatric Surgery at Sharp Memorial Hospital.
Objectives:
· Discuss the prevalence of obesity in the perinatal population
· Discuss the challenges in caring for the obese gravid
· Discuss the medical and surgical risks and complications of the obese gravid
$25 for 1.0 hour of AMA PRA Category I Credit or 1.0 contact hour, free to NPIC member hospitals
http://www.npic.org/Education/Upcoming_Events.php
Lamaze International: Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies: Encouraging breastfeeding in a hospital environment
Wednesday, December 15, 12-1pm
Presenters: Eileen M. DeFrisco, MA, RN, IBCLC and Karen Goodman, MA, RN, IBCLC, LCCE
Description:
A practical approach to support the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, including strategies corresponding to each of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, while overcoming obstacles within a hospital environment.
Free to attend, one hour of Lamaze credit or 1.0 nursing contact hour by taking the online quiz ($35 for Lamaze members, $50 nonmembers)
http://www.lamaze.org/Events/WebinarSeries/BecomingBabyFriendly/tabid/910/Default.aspx
Institute for Healthcare Improvement: "The Patient Activist"
Thursday, December 16, 2-3pm
Description:
The activated patient and family member - often seeking to ensure that whatever "bad" thing happened to them doesn't happen to anyone else - is, thankfully, no longer a new phenomenon. Today in the US, hundreds of organizations of all sizes and reach are gaining a voice and the expertise to help solve some of health care's most intractable quality and safety problems. The rapid growth of patient advisory councils is just the latest example of patients becoming an integral and integrated force in the redesign of care.
Web-based "talk show" format, free of charge.
http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/AudioAndWebPrograms/WIHI.htm
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Contact Kate
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Kate Berrien, RN, BSN, MS
UNC Center for Maternal & Infant Health
CB# 7181
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
kberrien@unch.unc.edu
Phone: 919-843-9336 Fax: 919-843-7866 |
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