| A Devastating Weekend for many in North Carolina |
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| We hope all of our partners in the PQCNC initiatives weathered the storms over the weekend and we extend our support to anyone sorting through destruction in the aftermath.
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| Learning Session Dates for your Calendars |
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 April 27: Please mark your calendars and have as many of your team participate as possible in our next meeting by webinar from 2-4 pm. We will continue to focus on ways to increase frequency of feedings in the first 24 hours of life, as well as discuss documentation strategies. Click here to join the webinar. The phone conference number is 712-432-6100, access code 96875#.
May 3 or May 5: The second in-person learning session for this initiative will be held in Raleigh on May 3rd and repeated in Winston Salem on May 5th. For directions and for the agenda click here.
Action Request: Each team is requested to forward a description or copy of a tool, poster, fact sheet, brochure, sticker or other item developed to help your team increase the number of exclusive breastfeeding babies discharged you're your maternity center. Please email to Karen (metzguer@med.unc.edu) by April 27 2011. These "tricks of the trade" will be shared in the handouts for our learning sessions the first week of May.
June 22: Please mark your calendars and have as many of your team participate as possible in our final meeting by webinar from 2-4 pm. Connection information will be shared in future email.
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| Resource shared by Robin Deal |
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 A new development at Rex is a feeding plan document that is introduced to moms in L&D and reviewed with signature on the mother-baby floor. This gives the mom important information and anticipatory guidance while creating a visible indication to all providers of a mothers intention. The FAQ is printed on the back of the one page document and the feeding plan is attached to the infant bassinet.
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| Data |
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 All of you have received a report of data you entered into the web data base and many of you have contacted Keith about it. The data is meant to support you in achieving higher rates of exclusive breastfeeding for mothers and infants during the entire maternity stay. Incomplete or missing data handicaps your ability to make meaning of the work you have been doing. When the data are complete and represent aspects of the care delivered, the home team can begin to examine the data for information to use going forward. As an example, with complete data you can understand the potential for mothers to be told about the strong support for breastfeeding at the time of delivery. Individual clinicians can only guess about the reliability of their own practice and would have no way of knowing for the group or unit without data. With complete data, nurses can examine the likelihood for the moms and babies to be skin to skin every day. Both of these interventions have been shown to increase exclusivity. We are eager to know how teams will continue to collect and enter the data as we go forward as well as how you are evaluating the data reports which have been forwarded.
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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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