NIDCAP Federation International

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ou may not be heading to France for the Olympics but if you are in the vicinity in November you could attend the Open One Day Conference. The one-day NTM conference is open to anyone interested in learning about NIDCAP Care. NIDCAP Trainers, Professionals and Supporters of NIDCAP Care from around the world will convene to discuss issues around optimizing preterm and term infant care with the NIDCAP approach.

The focus this year will be on systems integration of NIDCAP at all levels – local, regional and national. Physicians, scientists, nurses, and family organization leaders from around the world have been invited to speak. Continuing education credits will be available for RNs.

The conference will be a hybrid format and we hope to see you in person or virtually!🤗
👉 https://nidcap.org/7nov2024/

Stanley Norman Graven, aged 92, passed away on July 8, 2024, in Dallas, Oregon. Born on May 20, 1932, in Greene, Iowa, he dedicated his life to the medical field, specializing in neonatology. He was a beloved figure in both his professional and personal circles. Stanley's commitment to his faith, family, and the well-being of newborns and mothers marked his life's work.

He attended St. Olaf College and was a graduate of Wartburg College and the University of Iowa Medical School. His career was distinguished as a pioneer in the development of neonatology and the regionalization of neonatal care. He received the Virginia Apgar Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics as well as numerous other awards. His professional achievements in child development were matched by the deep personal connections he forged with those he served and worked alongside.

Even in retirement, he and Mavis could be found working with children in rural communities in Alaska and writing a book about the importance of developing faith in children.

A veteran of the United States Air Force, Stanley served from June 21, 1956, to July 25, 1964, bringing his medical expertise to the military community. His service was characterized by a dedication that mirrored his civilian career.

Stanley was a man of many interests, including building his lake cabin by hand in northern Minnesota with his wife Mavis (with no electricity or power tools). He enjoyed fishing, hiking, blueberry picking, and boating with his children and grandchildren. He cherished these moments greatly, just as he loved traveling and cruising with his beloved wife, Mavis, and their children.

He encouraged his children and grandchildren to embrace their gifts and strengths and flourish wherever they were led. Despite his busy professional career, he rarely missed events in which his children and grandchildren were involved. He was in the front row for school plays, musicals, band concerts, choir concerts, sporting events, birthdays, weddings, and births. Mavis regularly received flowers, and he regularly took the kids to the YMCA to swim on Sundays to give her some quiet time for herself.

He is survived by his loving wife of 70 years, Mavis Graven; children, Nadine, Kendall, and Douglas Graven; and grandchildren, Matthew, Bryndis, Tage, Ian, Maxwell, William, Alex, Katrina, Jessica, Janel, Jonas, Noah, and Ezra. He also leaves behind his great-grandson, Levi. Stanley was preceded in death by his parents, Henry and Helen Graven; brothers, David and Lloyd Graven; and son, Michael Graven.

A Celebration of Life service will be held on September 28, 2024, at 1:00 PM at Valley Life Center Church in Dallas, Oregon. The service will also be available via live stream, allowing those from afar to celebrate Stanley's remarkable impact. His legacy of compassion, dedication, and love continues to inspire all who knew him. Feel free to share personal stories, photos, and well wishes for friends and family as well.

The one-day NTM conference will be held on the last day of the 35th Annual NIDCAP Trainers Meeting and the first day of the 12èmes Journées Francophones NIDCAP, and is open to anyone interested in learning about NIDCAP Care. NIDCAP Trainers, Professionals and Supporters of NIDCAP Care from around the world will convene to discuss issues around optimizing preterm and term infant care with the NIDCAP approach.

Our focus this year will be on systems integration of NIDCAP at all levels – local, regional and national. Physicians, scientists, nurses, and family organization leaders from around the world have been invited to speak. Continuing education credits will be available for RNs.

‼️The conference will be a hybrid format.
We look forward to seeing you whether in person or virtually!🤗

👉 https://nidcap.org/7nov2024/

‼️We are pleased to announce the release of Developmental Observer, Vol. 17, No. 2. ‼️

👉 The issue is available on our Developmental Observer webpage.

The issue is also accessible from IUScholarWorks Journals.

We thank all those who contributed to this issue and we encourage others to contribute in the future.

Enjoy!

👉https://nidcap.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Developmental-Observer_Vol17_No2_2004.pdf

NIDCAP Sweden 🇸🇪
Skin to skin , the better place to be ❤️

Large retrospective study in

⬇️ in IVH & sepsis for < 32 wks w/ skin to skin (STS) care on day 0 or 1.

No diff for < 28 wks (1005 pts) but no harm?

Should 72 hr critical period (supine & head midline) for ELGANS include STS?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38803030/

Nidcap FranceP

Webinaire "Les soins de développement : NIDCAP et NBO" | Périnatalité Bretagne Le lundi 24 juin 2024, un webinaire sur les soins de développement vous est proposée par le Réseau Périnatalité Bretagne. Ce webinaire vous permettra de...

Nurse perceptions of developmental care practices have been researched globally for almost 30 years.
Yet, there is a lack of research exploring this subject in the specialised setting of the surgical neonatal intensive care unit (sNICU). This research explores the effect of developmental care education programs on sNICU nurses’ perceptions of developmental care. Australasian NIDCAP training Center 🇦🇺

https://doi.org/10.1016j.heliyon.2024.e30572

Perspective | Heidelise Als, PhD, 1940–2022: A Visionary Voice for Infants and Families: https://bit.ly/3xgNiXg

👏 Strasbourg Hospital, France 🇫🇷
Pierre Kuhn , MD PhD
NIDCAP care

Nidcap : la prise en charge sur mesure des grands prématurés à Strasbourg | RCF Alsace Au 7eme étage de l’hôpital de Hautepierre, au cœur de l’unité de néonatologie, s’applique depuis plusieurs années la philosophie Nidcap. Le concept est né aux États-Unis dans les années 80, avant de se développer dans les pays du nord de l’Europe puis d’atteindre, plus tardivemen...

Heidelise Als Legacy
Just published ‼️
“(…) In 1982, Dr Als introduced NIDCAP, an approach to care informed by the unique communications and needs of each individual infant. The NIDCAP framework offers a guide for caregiving. It seeks to protect each infant from harmful, overly stressful, and/or exhausting experiences and to promote appropriate, optimal ones. This earliest intervention uses individual infant observation, assessment, and care planning throughout the hospital stay from the bedside to the whole health-care system.
These strategies can be extended to the family at home. At NIDCAP’s core is the understanding and support of the infant’s parent(s) as primary caregiver(s), supporter(s), and advocate(s).
Dr Als believed that the early, attuned, and consistent engagement of parents is critical for the healthy emotional and physical development of their high- risk newborns. She always acknowledged life and parenting realities and challenges while focusing on strengths, supports, and next steps. NIDCAP has been shown to support best medical, neurobehavioral, and social-emotional developmental outcomes.

Thousands of infants and families have benefitted and many more will benefit from the insights and wisdom of Dr Heidelise Als, truly the voice of the newborn.
Dr Als wrote:
“I am convinced that with the courage to trust in our- selves, in the infants, in the parents and the staff of nurseries everywhere, we will multiply trust, courage, creativity, and generosity and the effectiveness to bring about change on behalf of infants, families, and profes- sionals in intensive care everywhere.”

http://publicatons.aap.org/neoreviews/article-pol

Just published! 🙌

“Despite advances in medical technology and infant care practices, the incidence of disability and neurodevelopmental challenges among survivors of infants cared for in intensive care units remains high.
Newborn individualised developmental care and assessment program (NIDCAP) implementation improves medical and developmental outcomes for high-risk in- fants and families requiring hospital care.
NIDCAP promotes the non-separation of infants and families, which enhances outcomes and improves clinical practice.
Conclusions:
NIDCAP is system-based, process-oriented, with attuned and responsive intervention that supports individualised developmental care for infants and families. Evidence shows NIDCAP intervention significantly improves medical outcomes, with less time on the ventilator, improved weight gain, decreased infant length of stay, as well as improved developmental outcomes for infants. NIDCAP imple- mentation also shows improved parental competence, decreased stress for the HCP teams and improved HCP' work satisfaction. NIDCAP training for HCPs and use of the NIDCAP Nursery Program improve medical, neurobehavioral and neurodevelopmental outcomes for infants and the well-being of infants and their families, as well as the HCP, who care for them.”

DOI: 10.1111/apa.17300

It is time for the May edition of news!

NIDCAP Trainers Meeting Open day ‼️
One Day Conference - Hybrid conference 🙌
7 November 2024

👉 Registration is now open for our one day hybrid conference. The conference is open to anyone interested in learning about NIDCAP Care.
This is an opportunity to network with NIDCAP Trainers, Professionals and Supporters of NIDCAP Care from around the world who will convene to discuss issues around optimizing preterm and term infant care through the NIDCAP approach.
Our focus this year will be on supporting and sustaining systems change in newborn and infant intensive care settings.

Physicians, scientists, nurses, and family organization leaders from around the world have been invited to speak. Continuing education credits will be available for RNs.

Click the button below to access our conference page to view the program and other details.

We look forward to seeing you!

https://nidcap.org/7nov2024/

The Story about parent’ feelings with Zero Separation❤️
Canguru Care Kangaroo Care Day - May 15

The Story about our feelings with Zero Separation. 3 minutes short version. Presented by Magdalena Persson Pettersen and André Persson, parents to Benjamin born preterm in week 32+1. Describing their experiences with immediate and co...

15 May
What we can do in canguru care , skin to skin ? …
From Lund-Malmö Nidcap Training and Research Center Sweden 🇸🇪

Ögonbottenundersökning av tidigt födda barn med användning av vidvinkelkamera och i förälderns knä Barn som föds tidigt, före 30 graviditetsveckor, genomgår upprepade ögonundersökningar för att identifiera eventuell utveckling av ögonbottensjukdomen retino...

• On May 15th, Kangaroo Care (skin to skin holding) is honored for families with young infants around the world. ❤️
NIDCAP Federation International

👉 « High Risk Infant Feeding »courtesy of The Sydney Children's Hospital Network.
The Australasian Nidcap Training Centre
‼️A MUST DO course for all NICU Professionals ‼️

The program is free and contains approximately 4 hours of learning.

– an eLearning program designed to provide clinicians working with high-risk infant’s (i.e. infants requiring surgery) with current evidence and strategies to support the development of feeding skills. The program has been developed by a range of clinical experts including Speech Pathologists, Lactation Consultants, Nurses, and Neonatologists.
All information is framed within an infant and family centred developmentally supportive approach.

The instructions for individuals to access the content:
1- Click the link
2- ON the landing page select the enrol button
3- Create and register for an account (using your own email address and password)
The program will appear in the enrolled tab
Certificate of completion is provided once an evaluation is completed

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Neuroprotective tip: swaddled bathing is a supportive intervention for baby's and parents.

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Neuroprotective tip: three practice points highlighting the benefits of side lying nappy changes.

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Neuroprotective tip: three practice points highlighting the evidence to support mouth care with breastmilk in the unit 1. Can reduce length of stay, 2. Can decrease mechanical ventilation time and incidence of NEC, and 3. Increases local immune response.

Conference on Skin to Skin and zero separation
Dr Nils Bergman
Lisbon , Portugal 🇵🇹

As principais bases biológicas da aplicação do Pele-e-pele foram comprovadas em estudos de fisiologia; a efetividade e segurança foram comprovadas em estudos observacionais e randomizados, e os aspectos cognitivos e psicológicos estudos utilizando métodos válidos da psicologia. A meta fundamental do Pele-e-pele em Neonatologia é a humanização, e para isso não necessitamos de comprovar nada! Oferecer cuidados de alta qualidade em Neonatologia só é possível com colocação diária, pelo máximo de tempo possível, do bebé em contacto pele-e-pele com os pais.
São estes e outros pressupostos que ouvirá falar no dia 15 de maio pel Dr. Nils Bergman.
Lisboa, ESEL, 15 de maio 10h00-13h30

https://nascer-prematuro-eventos.webnode.pt/

Bravo 👏 👏 Roubaix team !
Nidcap France

Meetings with NIDCAP trainers and NIDCAP professionals around the world are organized to share and reflect on the training program and address the issues that arise in our daily work in our units, working from a perspective based on the Synactive Theory and NIDCAP care.
We recognize and value the importance of native language in expressing ideas or reflections. Thus, we have initiated and have already held seven meetings in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian since 2021. Additionally, we have opened these meetings to professionals who have completed the FINE 2 training.

This week, at the 8th Meeting, the team of the NIDCAP Training Center São João, Porto, Portugal, shared a clinical case of a baby diagnosed with a complex congenital heart disease. We discussed the issues that arose from it and reflected together from a NIDCAP care perspective and based on Synactive theory, supporting development and the family.

👏 Bravo ! 🙌
Nordic Network Day for NIDCAP
22 March 2024

All March-long, the NFI celebrated families in hospitals from around the world, the NIDCAP community and NIDCAP care.
Now it is April and we are continuing to honor NIDCAP and its potential to improve experiences and futures. Please see these beautiful images from Taiwan, Iran, and Japan! 🌎

Holding and being held with
NIDCAP care from China, France, Sweden and Iran. 🌍 🌎 🩵

👏👏 Katleen van Dommelen (NICU nurse) and Veronique Demeulemeester (Neonatologist), both working at St. Augustinus Hospital in Antwerp, received their NIDCAP certificates. Congratulations to both of them! 🎉🇳🇱
Sophia NIDCAP & APIB Training Center
ErasmusMC-Sophia, Childrens Hospital
Rotterdam, The Netherlands