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🌟 The Power of Kangaroo Care in the NICU 🌟 In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), every moment and interaction counts for our tiniest patients. One incredibly effective practice that has proven to be a game-changer is kangaroo care. 👶 What is Kangaroo Care? Kangaroo care involves holding a premature or low-birth-weight infant skin-to-skin, chest-to-chest. This close contact helps stabilize the baby's heart rate, improve breathing patterns, and enhance weight gain. 💖 Why is it Important? Bonding: Enhances the emotional bond between parents and their newborns. Health Benefits: Supports thermoregulation, reduces stress and pain for the baby, and promotes better sleep. Development: Encourages neurological development and can lead to better long-term outcomes. Breastfeeding: Facilitates more successful breastfeeding experiences. The beauty of kangaroo care lies in its simplicity and profound impact. Let's continue to champion and support this practice, ensuring every newborn receives the best start in life. #Neonatology #KangarooCare #NICU #PrematureBabies #NeonatalCare #HealthcareInnovation

NASN's new professional development opportunity, Rare Seizure Disorders: Practice Connections for School Nurses, informs #schoolnurses about their role in caring for students with rare seizures/epilepsy and provides the definition, diagnosis, common comorbidities, and resources for 21st-century #schoolnursing practice. https://ow.ly/xGEb50QAH2E #studenthealth #epilepsy #seizures

Incorporate the most up-to-date research in your thermoregulatory newborn care with the guideline, “Thermoregulation in the Care of Infants Guideline for Practice”! This guideline offers best practices for caring for pre-term, term, and post-term infants, enhancing nurses' knowledge of all aspects of thermal protection in the NICU. Help protect your patients with this guideline today: https://lnkd.in/gmFCFpji. #thermoregulation #nicucare #neonatalcare #nicueducation #neonataleducation

Incorporate the most up-to-date research in your thermoregulatory newborn care with the guideline, “Thermoregulation in the Care of Infants Guideline for Practice”! This guideline offers best practices for caring for pre-term, term, and post-term infants, enhancing nurses' knowledge of all aspects of thermal protection in the NICU. Help protect your patients with this guideline today: https://lnkd.in/gmFCFpji. #thermoregulation #nicucare #neonatalcare #nicueducation #neonataleducation

Great day today talking, learning, growing, networking with Pennsylvania Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) colleagues. As the Pennsylvania Section Chair I got to kick off the conference and share about the importance of career cartography, writing goals, life long learning and thinking about how you want grow yourself personally and professionally. 🌸Reflect on your strengths and weaknesses-ask a friend to share what they see in you! 🪷What are you passionate about? 🌺Write a goal (it doesn’t have to be big). Write it down it helps it to come true. 🌻Find a mentor 🪻Actively Listen 🌼Network “Let’s root for each other and watch each other grow” (Yes, it’s a flower uterus shirt— I had to it went with the theme!) Jonathan Webb Dr. K. McLean DNP, FNP-BC, MSN-ed, C-EFM, CHSE, RNC-OB, NEA-BC Kate Endres #womenshealth #maternalhealth #traumainformedcare #preeclampsia #eliminatedisparities #peersupport

#WednesdayWisdom As a childbirth educator, you understand the importance of providing emotional and physical support to the families you work with. Intrapartum nurses are essential in providing this type of support during labor, leading to better birth outcomes, lower cesarean rates, and reduced anesthesia use. A recent quality improvement project demonstrated the positive impact of educating and training these nurses in labor support techniques. Surveys indicated that post-education, nurses felt more confident in employing evidence-based labor comfort strategies to honor a woman’s labor preferences. Stay informed and dive deeper into these findings in the latest issue of The Journal of Perinatal Education: https://bit.ly/3Ahw6C9

Having more psychiatric nurse practitioners (PNPs) can be vital toward addressing the demand for mental health services that has skyrocketed in recent years. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that one in five American adults lives with a mental illness. With this rapid increase, the need for qualified, advanced practice nursing working in the mental health sector has become critical (NP Advantage). PNPs can positively influence healthcare outcomes in several ways: 1. Addressing gaps in mental healthcare relating to accessibility, affordability, and quality of care. 2. Addressing social determinants of health. 3. Clinical therapy skills of PNPs range from talk therapy to cognitive-behavioral therapy, and other forms of psychotherapy (NP Advantage). If you are a PNP in Connecticut and Rhode Island, please don't hesitate to reach out to me about transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)! Magstim has worked with many NPs to incorporate TMS in clinics and positively impact patients' lives to help reduce depression and OCD symptoms! Thank you NP Advantage for providing the information about the importance of PNPs in the United States. #neuroscience #neuromodulation #TMS #nursepractitioners

In honor of Maternal Health Awareness Day, we are proud to share our Chief Nursing Officer, Karen Kolega, DNP, MSN-CNL, RNC-OB, C-EFM, C-ONQS's interview on the #HITshow, hosted by Dennis Dailey! "We are in a maternal health crisis. Access to care is a big problem in this nation. Greater than 80% of outcomes that we're seeing through the continuum, prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, they're considered preventable." #maternalhealthawarenessday #maternalhealth #nursing

2 Clinician insertions are a crucial first few steps for beginner inserters. It allows for growth in comradery but also acts as a resource for each other. When we have the needle in your hand you're busy executing, sometimes you need someone to pull back and consider alternative solutions when troubleshooting. This will help decrease errors with beginner inserters or complicated cases. Unfortunately not all institutions value this or know to figure out how to afford it. #vascularaccess #doctor #nurse