Teams from across the state met in January in Durham for the annual/kickoff meeting. We were honored to have Rob DuBois, Ben Saypol, Elliot Main, Jim Conway, Stephen Patrick and Marty Scott join us as well as team members from across the state to highlight past initiatives and current initiatives. It was an exciting day full of wonderful presentations. Teams will now focus on working on the action plan, submitting data and making improvements.
Updates
January 13, 2014
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Initiative Perinatal Quality Improvement Teams are enrolling in the new Delphi database for collection and submission of secure data. Teams began the process for collecting and submitting baseline data for the initiative. Teams continued to complete the PQIT-UP QI modules to increase their knowledge of quality improvement tools and techniques
November 28, 2013
The NAS Expert team determined the needed baseline data in November to be submitted prior to the beginning of the initiative. Baseline data will include unit level data, administrative level data and patient level data. This data will allow us to determine where we are and how we achieve standardization across NC with the care of NAS infants and families. Teams now will focus their work on gathering and submitting this baseline data. A total of 31 teams from across NC and Illinois will take part in the initiative and begin their work in January. Thanks to all the members of the expert team for their willingness to work so diligently over the summer and fall to develop an exciting initiative.
November 4, 2013
The NAS Expert team finalized the Action Plan for the initiative in October. The Action Plan contains specific actions related to the main 4 areas: Identification, Evaluation, Treatment and Discharge for improvements to standardize the care of NAS infants and families. A total of 28 teams from across NC and Illinois will take part in the initiative and begin their work in Jan. The expert team will continue their work next month to determine what is needed for baseline data.
October 2, 2013
The month of September the expert team intensely worked on the Action Plan the teams participating in the NAS initiative will be using to standardize their care of the NAS infant and family. Official enrollment began for the teams to declare their participation in the initiative. We've updated this page to include the outcome measures for the project in the results section of the NAS webpage. In the next few months’ teams will be working to complete the prerequisites to participate in the initiative.
September 6, 2013
The NAS expert team met on September 5 in Raleigh to hammer out the action plan - it was a full day of thoughtful discussion, productive breakout sessions, and intense collaboration.
August 23, 2013
The month of August has been a busy working month for the expert team. They created a data collection form and then worked two weeks to revise the form. The final data collection tool reflects a streamlined approach that will support our efforts in the stated outcomes of the initiative.
August 5, 2013
The month of July the expert team was hard at work on the needed reports for the NAS initiative. The group discussed many different reports that would be available for the PQIT teams to use in their efforts to improve the care of the NAS patient and family. The expert team will begin the process of refining these reports over the next month
July 10, 2013
The month of June has been an exciting month. NAS experts from across the state joined to begin the process of developing our new NAS initiative. The expert group consists of physicians, nurses, pharmacist, and a family member. The team discussed the need to standardize care of the NAS patient and family across the state and began the process of developing the charter statement and potential outcome measures for the initiative. The expert team is very motivated and will be working hard over the summer on the action plan and data collection and reporting.