Teams are wrapping up their 4 month intensive on bedside engagement in preparation for the next Learning Session which will be on May 17 at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh. The intensive work by teams resulted in new ways of engaging and teaching patients, new resources developed and implemented, and a steadily increasing rate of successful 'teach back', our proxy measure for engagement. At the upcoming Learning Session, Perinatal Quality Improvement Teams (PQITs) will wrap up their intensive focus on engagement by learning how to use TeamSTEPPS strategies for engaging patients and families at the bedside. The next steps in the CMOP Action Plan will be reviewed and teams will begin an intensive focus on antenatal steroid use and magnesium administration. Tracy Manuck, MD, MS will be kicking off the discussion by highlighting the benefits and issues surrounding antenatal steroid administration. Tracy is the Assistant Director of the Prematurity Prevention Clinic at UNC and practices Maternal Fetal Medicine. Margarita Bidegain, MD, MHS-CL, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Duke, is co-leading this phase for PQCNC and will be addressing the PQITs on the state of antenatal steroid use in North Carolina.
