Featuring presentation videos and accompanying slides: Improve the discharge processes for babies leaving your NICU unit. During this course you will find out what services are doing to improve the discharge pathway from NICU to lower dependency units and community teams to ensure that their babies are getting home sooner and safely. Build your confidence and raise your competency for discharging babies with Human Milk Fortifier (HMF) and oxygen whilst investigating how to link in with general practice at this one stop, online study day.
3.5 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn
Build a clear picture of what effective discharge planning looks like and leave this course with implementable skills that you can put into practice the very next day. View the video and slides and refocus on:
Meet your education and training needs in your own time
Take away ideas from the trailblazers and adapt them for your own service, plus benefit from:
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Chair’s opening remarks
Aisling Phillips, Neonatal Outreach Manager, Evelina London Children's Healthcare, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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| Navigating onward discharge pathways | |
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Bridging the transference gap between high dependency and low dependency units
Aisling Phillips, Neonatal Outreach Manager, Evelina London Children's Healthcare, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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Questions and answers with Aisling Phillips
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| Discharging into the community | |
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Raising confidence in Nasogastric Tube Feeding to reduce hospital stays
Caroline Eagles, Nursery Nurse/Home Tube Feeding Team and Rachel Pountney, Principal Dietitian, Neonates/Paediatrics, Nutrition and Dietetics, Bradford Royal Infirmary
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Questions and answers with your speakers
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| Referring babies with oxygen | |
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Establishing best practice for discharging babies with home oxygen
Dr Hazel Evans, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician, Southampton Children’s Hospital, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
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Questions and answers with Dr Hazel Evans
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| Discharge skills for Human Milk Fortifier (HMF) | |
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Post discharge Human Milk Fortifier (HMF) in preterm infants to support breast feeding and reduce risk of readmission
Caroline King, Retired Neonatal Dietitian, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
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First hand service experience: Managing the discharge of babies’ home on Human Milk Fortifier (HMF)
Carmen Bell, Neonatal Dietitian, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
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Questions and answers with Caroline King and Carmen Bell
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Chair’s closing remarks and close
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Meet your speakers
Aisling Phillips is the lead nurse for the Neonatal Outreach Team at Guy’s & ST THOMAS’ Hospital (Evelina London Children’s Hospital). She trained as a paediatric and general nurse in Ireland before starting her job as a neonatal nurse at Guy’s hospital in 1995.
Aisling has undertaken many courses throughout her career as a neonatal nurse including ENNP and the examination of the new born.
Aisling has a number of roles within the neonatal unit and is currently both the neonatal outreach and discharge manager. She has a particular interest in early discharge and long term ventilation in the home environment. She works side by side with the neonatal team to provide a seamless transition from hospital to home.
Carmen currently works at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, as a Neonatal Dietitian and has been doing so since November 2021. Carmen has been able to gain great experience working in both the level 2 and level 3 units; she has also been involved in re-establishing a ‘breast milk fortifier post discharge’ service over the past 18 months.
Carmen previously worked in South Africa before coming to the UK in 2019. There she also gained experience working in resource-limited hospitals, some having neonatal units, as well as spending time doing community work.
I worked at Imperial health care NHS trust neonatal units since the early 1990s. Gaining experience in both level 1 and level 2 neonatal care. I have interests in all aspects of neonatal nutrition from early expressing of breast milk, through the provision of parenteral nutrition to negotiating the challenge of ensure babies fed human milk (their mothers or donor) get the best possible nutrition. This led to a realisation that many babies benefited by continuing fortification post discharge. By supporting their growth we could also support mums lactation.
I retired in November 2021 but continue to have an interest in this and many other areas of neonatal nutrition.
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Past attendee feedback
"Lots of relevant information regarding discharge criteria, parental involvement, planning and support"
Enhancing your Complex NICU Discharge Planning, September 2023
"I found all speakers informative and knowledgeable. Gave me lots to discuss with my manager to enhance our service"
Enhancing your Complex NICU Discharge Planning, September 2023
“Very clear speakers. Good topics. Appropriate length of talks”
Enhancing your Complex NICU Discharge Planning, September 2023
“I enjoyed every aspect of the day. I will definitely recommended future study days”
Enhancing your Complex NICU Discharge Planning, September 2023
"Very organised and interactive, informative and relevant, thank you"
Enhancing your Complex NICU Discharge Planning, September 2023
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