Nurturing the Future of Neonatal and Perinatal Care

This event is designed for pediatricians, neonatologists, advanced practice providers and nurses to provide a yearly update on neonatal and perinatal medicine as a result of periodic surveys of health care professionals and continuous changes in quality care.

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Learning Objectives

• Identify features and functions of the healthy human microbiome
• Identify features of dysbiosis
• Identify examples of how microbiome profiles are relevant to care of patients with cancer
• Give examples how to verbalize discussion around unknown chromosomal abnormalities with families
• Apply effective communication principles in discussion with families
• Recognize the struggles that come with being a NICU parent
• Define Family-Centered Care and  recognize its importance in the NICU
• Describe how parents have defined the concept of the “good” parent in previous studies
• Identify at least 2 possible ways that findings from a current qualitative study on “good” parents in the NICU impact future clinical practice

• Describe how retinopathy of prematurity emerged with evolving care practices of preterm infants
• Recognize the pathogenesis and classification of ROP
• Discuss treatment options and current understandings of risks/benefits
• Describe the clinical condition of preeclampsia
• Explain the particular implications on the fetus and neonate of pregnancies impacted by preeclampsia spectrum disorders
• Summarize the roles of the multi-disciplinary team in fostering infant development
• To identify 3 ways infants display stress in the NICU environment
• To identify 2 ways to incorporate neuro-protection in the NICU