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April is HIE Awareness Month!
Hope for HIE, is a global non-profit organization founded by parents of children diagnosed with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE). The organization serves thousands of families worldwide promoting awareness, education, and support. The organization encourages...
Literature spotlight – Meeting the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic with Music Therapy
What are the benefits of music therapy? [bctt tweet="Music Therapy is an evidence-based practice that provides “developmentally appropriate cognitive, motor, and social stimulation” to hospitalized neonates that has been shown to improve attainment of developmental...
QI for MRI: What are your measures of success?
In the Neuro Nurturing NICU, the mainstay of diagnostic neuroimaging...
Neuroimaging isn’t scary: simplifying common neonatal neuroimaging for the bedside nurse
Understanding the nuances of neuroimaging modalities can be an intimidating prospect for bedside nurses, so this month we wanted to provide an overview of common methods and we promise...it won’t be scary! Neuroimaging technologies continue to evolve, but there...
Community Call Recap: The Impact of Restricting Parent Visitation during a Pandemic
This year at the 2020 ONE Conference, Kathi introduced the Continuing Education Club to support members all year long through education, inspiration, and connection! Our new monthly community connection calls launched in March and each month they just keep getting...
Self-Care Awareness & Neonatal Nurses Week (PLUS NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH!!!)
In 2019, the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) expanded Neonatal Nurses Day, historically celebrated on September 15th, to a weeklong opportunity to honor the dedication, passion, and expertise of neonatal nurses. No one could have imagined what 2020 had...
Literature Spotlight: Exogenous Ketone Bodies & HIE
LITERATURE SPOTLIGHT: Exogenous Ketone Bodies as Promising Neuroprotective Agents for Developmental Brain Injury. When neuroprotection first became part of the NICU dialogue it was typically used to describe those interventions aimed at preventing brain injury and...
What if parents were a drug?
What if I told you that we possessed a drug capable of decreasing pain and stress in the hospitalized neonate? What if I said that this drug came with no side effects, reduced length of stay, was shown to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes, and was FREE? What if I...
Finding your Strengths
STRENGTH TO BE THE ONEIsn't it true... timing is everything? You can hear something once and it does not resonate or seem important, you hear it again, and again.. and finally it sticks. Two years ago, I was given the chance to take Gallup's Strengths Finder (c)...