Neonatal Resuscitation Program Topic for Level III & IV NICU: The Science Behind Neonatal Resuscitation: Past, Present, Future

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This presentation will provide an overview of the rich history of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program, including conception, evolution, and impacts of the program for staff, patients, families, and society. We will especially focus on the importance of evolution of knowledge in neonatal resuscitation, encouraging neonatal staff to seek to understand the science behind NRP skills, to question unsupported practices, and to relentlessly search for ways to improve outcomes. We will present the processes and science behind several recent changes to the NRP, as well as some intriguing areas of ongoing research, and specific studies and trials to watch for. Nurses and others who work with newly born patients will come away inspired by the progress that has been facilitated NRP practices and how they can personally contribute to further evolution and understanding. It is their bedside observations, participation in studies and process improvements, and their unrelenting passion to make a difference that are significant factors to improve outcomes. Such things are a privilege and a responsibility. Neonatal staff really do hold the future in their hands.

Learning Outcomes:
Examine the history of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
Describe how emerging science and ongoing research influence NRP changes
Recognize barriers to practice change in their own setting and how they may be overcome
Describe 3 areas of ongoing research in neonatal resuscitation
Identify how they can contribute to the growing body of neonatal resuscitation knowledge

CE Credit Information:

Participants can earn 1 CE credit for viewing the presentation and completing the evaluation.

The National Association of Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Gary M. Weiner, MD, FAAP

Clinical Professoer, NICU Medical Director

University of Michigan

Dr. Gary Weiner is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Medical Director of the Brandon Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Weiner’s scholarship has focused on interventions to improve the outcome for critically ill newborns during the first minutes of life. He is the editor of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Heart Association’s Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation 7th and 8th editions, a member of the American Heart Association Resuscitation Guidelines Writing Committee, and Vice Chair of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation’s Neonatal Life Support Task Force. He received his medical degree and completed both pediatric residency and neonatology fellowship training at the University of Michigan.