15th National

010 Practical Sim: NRP Instructor Workshop
Jeanette Zaichkin, RN, MN, NNP-BC
Join your fellow NRP hospital-based instructors and regional trainers for hands-on learning about the 6th edition NRP provider course curriculum. Create and conduct newborn resuscitation scenarios using simple mannequins and low-tech methods suited to the community hospital setting. Practice debriefing and discover tools to build your skills. Take home information that enables you to conduct quality NRP provider courses for your hospital-based Neonatal Resuscitation Program. (Note: This is not an NRP Instructor Course).

020 Practical Sim: NRP Instructor Workshop
Gary M. Weiner, MD, FAAP
Join your fellow NRP hospital-based instructors and regional trainers for hands-on learning about the 6th edition NRP provider course curriculum. Create and conduct newborn resuscitation scenarios using simple mannequins and low-tech methods suited to the community hospital setting. Practice debriefing and discover tools to build your skills. Take home information that enables you to conduct quality NRP Provider courses for your hospital-based Neonatal Resuscitation Program. (Note: This is not an NRP Instructor Course).

030 Nurse on Trial: Critical Aspects of Defense
Patricia Barker, JD Jennifer Suttle, JD
Our speakers explore key issues that arise for nurses involved in the litigation process. They attempt to debunk the myth of “If it was not charted, it was not done.” The objective is to identify how the critical elements of documentation can be utilized in a jury trial to evaluate the quality of nursing care and discuss how specific entries of documentation support clinical practice. Also discussed are how policies and procedures can impact the defense of nursing care and the ramifications of improper documentation which may reflect inadequate quality of care.

040 Neonatal Medication Safety: Cause and Effect
Beth Shields, PharmD
Medication errors are not new to the health care arena, but have been published in the neonatal literature over the last several years in increasing numbers and severity. Complexity of medication preparation, delivery, acquisition, and storage in the current environment are all examined as potential roadblocks in today’s neonatal intensive care unit.

050 Noninvasive Ventilation Made Simpler for Babies, Staff, and Families
Rangasamy Ramanathan, MD
Dr. Ramanathan discusses a novel means to provide nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) or nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) using a nasal cannula from the delivery room to discharge in preterm and term infants requiring respiratory support. After this in-depth session, you’ll understand the practice of nasal ventilation as a primary or secondary mode of respiratory support. Dr. Ramanathan also discusses nasal cannula intermittent mandatory ventilation (NC-IMV) and INSURE (INtubation, SURfactant and Extubation) technique.

060 Quality Improvement: Leading Your Organization through Uncharted Waters
Kenneth P. Anderson, DO, MS, CPE Elizabeth Beherns, RN
Our speakers identify the leadership qualities needed to help health care systems maximize their potential to “create” health in their communities in an era of growing importance for performance excellence and financial limitations, using real life performance improvement opportunity stories with pre- and post-implementation data. They focus on the “quality tools” required to support quality project work and how to obtain and practice those skill sets. They discuss the inherent strengths needed in people, process, and technology domains to identify and generate solutions to quality conundrums, using data derived from electronic health records. Throughout, the speakers identify examples of quality improvement projects that highlight the four domains of quality: Quality Control, Quality Improvement, Human Resource Development, and Quality Innovation.