| February 22 Webinar follow-up |
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 Many thanks to all teams who participated in today's webinar and contributed to the very interesting discussion about cervical ripening, induction practices, engaging physicians, educating patients and other strategies. The next webinar will be Tuesday March 22 from 7:30-9:00am. Mark your calendars and make sure you alert your team members! Please send us any feedback you have about this morning's webinar, including suggestions for future webinars. The slides from this morning as well as the Oral Misoprostol Papers are available on the extranet.
In preparation for the March session, please email (kberrien@unch.unc.edu) or fax (919-843-7866) any induction order sets, protocols or policies in use or under development at your facility to share with other teams in the initiative. If your team would like to present work you're doing on the next webinar, please let me know.
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Action plans
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 We have not received the goals/objectives page (last page of the Action Planning Worksheet) from several teams. Other teams may want to consider refining your objectives to make them "SMARTer" - specific, measurable, attainable, realsitic and measurable. SMART objectives will allow you to evaluate your progress toward your broad goals.
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| Data notes |
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 Please do not enter patients into the database patients who are not NTSV. For the purposes of this project, we are not interested in those patients. If your team has not entered any data yet for February, please get started, so we can help you troubleshoot any problems with the database. The sooner your data is in, the sooner we can turn it around to you in a report. If you have any questions at all about data collection or data entry, contact us early and often. Jessica (jphipps@email.unc.edu), Kate (kberrien@unch.unc.edu) and Keith (keith_cochran@unc.edu) are all available to help you manage data and data entry.
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| Jessica's data update for the week |
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 Each week, we're looking at the baseline data to see what else it can tell us about current practices related to vaginal birth among the NTSV population. This week we looked at the percent of induction patients who were admitted with a cervical dilation of 0-1cm and, of those, who received cervical ripening. Hospitals that find themselves doing a lot of cervical ripening may want to look at those inductions to ensure they are medically indicated. We found a wide range across hospitals in terms of how many of their induction patients were admitted at 0-1cm. See the table that follows:
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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 |
