A recent national study indicated that illicit drug use is 16.2% among pregnant teens and 7.4% among pregnant women aged 18 to 25 years. Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a drug withdrawal syndrome in newborns following birth. While this is a growing population in our hospitals there remains no standards of care or treatment. PQCNC NICU and Nursery PQIT’s will share strategies and lessons learned while working over a 9-month period to develop potentially better practices and employ QI methodologies to establish a standard of care within North Carolina hospitals.
