Your VON Newsletter
September 2024 |
Enroll now in QI topics for 2025 |
Join other teams and expert faculty to review evidence and implement potentially better practices in our QI collaborative topics for 2025. You can use the practice gap assessments and Nightingale report links on our website to see the improvement opportunities at your center. |
VON Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement |
The inaugural VON Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement recognizes VON member teams who demonstrate dedication to VON core values of quality improvement: measurement, evidence, families, equity, and collaboration.
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Survival of Infants Born at 22 to 25 Weeks' Gestation Receiving Care in the NICU: 2020-2022 |
This recent publication provides contemporary data on infants inborn at 22 to 25 weeks' gestation and receiving care at level 3 and 4 neonatal intensive care units in the United States. Read more and see the accompanying editorial. |
Cooling for Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy: From Evidence to Practice |
In randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of term and late preterm infants with moderate or severe hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), therapeutic hypothermia (TH) has resulted in a statistically significant and clinically important reduction in the combined outcome of mortality or major neurodevelopmental disability at 18 to 24 months of age. Read more... |
Quality Improvement Interventions to Prevent Intraventricular Hemorrhage: A Systematic Review |
This recent publication evaluates quality improvement interventions that sought to prevent or reduce the severity of intraventricular hemorrhage. Read more... |
Evidence to Practice: Preventing Hypothermia
VON Grand Rounds |
Save the Date! The next VON Grand Rounds, "Follow-Up and Follow-Through" is November 13, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. (Eastern) |
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Many strategies have been used to prevent hypothermia, and yet approximately 1 in 5 newborns experience hypothermia, with 1 in 20 having moderate to severe hypothermia.
Our latest Grand Rounds examined the evidence behind successful strategies to prevent hypothermia and the barriers that have led to the persistence of this problem. |
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Training for VON Tools and Resources |
Would you like some guidance navigating Nightingale and other VON tools and resources? Contact VON Account Manager Denise Schomody to schedule a training, either one-on-one or with multiple people from your team. |
Thrive Through Civic Health |
To that end, we're sharing the resources available through Vot-ER, which is transforming routine healthcare visits into opportunities for civic empowerment, partnering with trusted health professionals, and reaching historically underrepresented communities.
Vot-ER is also leading the Thrive Through Civic Health: We Will Vote initiative, a call to action for the health sector and an onramp to expand and amplify a shared understanding of the interdependence between healthy communities and a healthy democracy. |
Case of the Year at NANN! |
It was wonderful to see everyone who stopped by the VON booth at the annual NANN conference this month, and we had a great time learning about a mysterious clinical case during the Case of the Year presentation. Keep an eye out for something that you could present next year in Palm Springs! |
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Quality Improvement Foundations
Online Course - Sample Lesson Available! |
The Quality Improvement Foundations course (3.5 CME/CNE) is based on VON's proven approach to achieving lasting improvement with lessons about QI fundamentals in neonatal care specific settings.
This step-by-step guide to plan, prepare and run tests of change is available to all staff at participating centers. |
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If your center is not participating in "All Care is Brain Care," you can still access the course by enrolling as a Quality Circle member or signing up for an Education Subscription.
See a sample of the first lesson on the VON website! |
Support Quality Improvement for All Infants and Families Worldwide |
With your contribution today, VON can continue to support pediatricians training in neonatology in the African Paediatric Fellowship Program and advance quality improvement in resource-limited settings. |
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