Hospital teams gathered for the final learning session of the clOUDi initiative hearing from a variety of speakers, and sharing lessons learned, barriers faced, and obstacles overcome. One of the highlights of the day was a talk by David Ryan of ECU on 'the work you do matters'...
Hospitals continue to work on improving and standardizing their Safe Sleep education and have partnered with Cribs for Kids to obtain Safe Sleep Certification. Hospitals that have received Cribs for Kids Safe Sleep Certification so far can be found here
Some early success with Naloxone! By the end of June some facilities have been able to go live with providing Naloxone to their at risk patients but for others it remains a tough nut to crack - one difficulty being finding a financial pathway that would secure access to Naloxone at no additional cost to families
Teams are busy with the additional goals for clOUDi 3 including depression screening focusing on staff education, rollout, and ensuring there's a follow-up processing place for patients who score high
Some teams are discovering in the process of hard-wiring their safe sleep patient / family education that a barrier to a good reliable process is that nursing staff may not have adequate education and a result have created additional staff education to provide solid foundational knowledge...
After the frank presentation at the April learning session demo the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner some teams reached out directly to receive facility-specific data re: infant deaths. Those facilities have been sharing that data with their team and discussing their numbers as a part of their safe sleep education for staff - a good example of how data can have an impact!
What a day it was, highlights of a packed agenda for LS2 included hearing from folks with lived experience, a frank presentation from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, learning about Cribs for Kids and the programs they offer, as well as afternoon workshops on quality improvement techniques and motivational interviewing. It was a room full of teams committed to the idea that in providing the best possible care for patients/families affected by this initiative actions are more important than words - was your team there?
10 hospitals are currently exploring use of the safe sleep calculator to help their patients better understands the risks, and how risks can be lessened through behavior change. On the latest webinar they've shared what they've learned about their patients knowledge and concerns (by talking to them!) and are now exploring a 'paper' version of the calculator...
It's March and teams in the Safe Sleep cohort deep into exploratory / qualitative research, checking in to learn about concerns around discharge and knowledge of Safe Sleep to begin to understand how to deploy the calculator in the most useful way...