E01-1 Improving Pain Management for Infants on a Mother Baby Unit

 

Author: Cynthia Mann RN, MN, MHA, IBCLC PNC(C)

 

Presenter: Cynthia Mann, IWK Health Centre, Halifax NS

 

Purpose: To describe the knowledge translation strategies used on a mother baby unit to increase the use of a variety of pain management strategies for infants, focusing on empowering parents to decide what strategies that they feel most comfortable using and how they plan to support their infant during painful procedures.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the strategies available to manage infant pain.
• Articulate strategies to empower parents to make decisions on pain management strategies they will use for their infant during painful procedures.
• Identify tools that one can use for change management to increase the use of pain management strategies for infants on a mother baby unit.

 

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E01-2 Transitional Neonatal Hypoglycemia in the Term and Late-Preterm Newborn:  Don't Forget the Basics!!

 

Author: Jennifer Marandola RN, MN, IBCLC, PNC(C)

 

Presenter: Jennifer Marandola, CIUSSS West-Island of Montreal, Sainte-Catherine QC

 

Purpose: To highlight the impact of skin-to-skin and breastfeeding or breastmilk-feeding on neonatal transitional hypoglycemia and how these, combined with the addition of dextrose gel, will provide safer neonatal transition to extra-uterine life.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the correlation between skin-to-skin and neonatal transition and its role in maintaining a euglycemic state for the neonate.
• Understand the components of colostrum and the early initiation of colostrum feeds that are associated with maintaining euglycemia to assist the newborn in transition.
• Understand how to incorporate the use of skin-to-skin and breastfeeding in addition to dextrose gel into evidence-informed hospital protocols for transitional neonatal hypoglycemia.