| Learning Sessions coming up! |
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 1. We will continue to discuss feeding guidelines for the VLBW infant and review reports recently sent to the key contacts using the virtual classroom at 2 pm on Monday, March 11, 2011. Click here to join the webinar. The phone conference number is 712-432-6100, access code 96875#.
2. The clinical leads have canceled the webinar previously scheduled for May 9, 2011, because we will be gathering for an in person learning session on May 19, 2011, at the McKimmon Center on the NCSU campus. Please have one member of your team click here to pre-register the members of your team who will attend the learning session.
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Review article provided by Polly Sisk, PhD
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 In a new review article (Schanler RJ. Outcomes of Human Milk-Fed Premature Infants. Seminars in Perinatology 2011;35:29-33) Dr. Richard Schanler has summarized the research on health outcomes of human milk-fed premature infants. This review describes lower rates of infection related morbidity during the neonatal period as well as lower rates of rehospitalization for illness after discharge from the NICU. Studies on neurodevelopmental outcomes indicate that human milk-fed premature infants have better mental and motor development, intelligence quotient, and visual acuity through adolescence. There is emerging evidence that human milk feeding is related to body composition and lower rates of metabolic syndrome. Improving human milk feeding in the NICU has long term consequences...Click here to read the article.
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| Creativity at Work submitted by Forsyth PQCNC Team |
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 Linda Fansler, RN, nurse educator and a member of our PQCNC team, has generated interest among the staff in the importance of the first 2 weeks by posting signs all over the unit that simply say "2 weeks". These signs are posted above the time clocks, in the bathrooms, in the locker rooms, on the entrance doors to the NICU, in the NICU, and in the employee lounge.
This got everyone asking what's "2 weeks". After a few days she posted an information sheet under some of these signs explaining why the first 2 weeks are so important for establishing milk supply and explaining the hormonal mileu involved in early lactation.
Continuing with this Linda plans to replace these signs in a couple of weeks with signs that say "Got Milk?" with more educational information about what is involved in establishing an adequate milk supply. We aren't sure exactly what the next catch phrase will be but it will pertain to what the staff can do to help mothers during this time.
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| Contact |
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 Karen Metzguer
PQCNC Improvement Advisor
metzguer@med.unc.edu
Work: 919-966-8391
Mobile: 919-619-6332
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