Disciplines
Maternal, Child Health and Neonatal Nursing | Medicine and Health Sciences | Nursing | Pediatric Nursing
Abstract (300 words maximum)
During my pediatric clinical rotation, I saw parents practicing unsafe sleeping practices with their infants. Infants would sleep with their pillows, blankets and in non-supine positions. There are around 3000 sleep related infant deaths annually in the United States (Patrick et al., 2021). To combat this issue a safe sleep education program should be implemented in labor and delivery and NICU units to ensure parents are getting the proper training before discharge. Parents will attend an education program before discharging from the hospital. The program will be completed in 2 days to ensure the parents are able to ask questions and clearly understand. On day one this program will include a behavior skill training (BST), videos and reading material. With one session of education and BST participants have showed improvement in safe sleep practices (Carrow et al., 2020). A pre-questionnaire will be taken before to assess the patient’s education needs. On day two they will demonstrate or teach back what they learned and upon completion get a children’s book about safe sleep practices. A post-questionnaire will also be taken to see parents’ improvements. Healthcare personnel will also go through training to ensure they are modeling the correct safe sleep practices to parents and give out correct, consistent information. To evaluate the effectiveness of the safe sleep practices program we will use the pre and post questionnaires. Also, upon completion of the project the number of infant sleep related deaths will be compared to the number before the project was implemented.
Academic department under which the project should be listed
Nursing
Primary Investigator (PI) Name
Dr. Christie Emerson
Additional Faculty
Felicia Lanier, Nursing, flanier1@kennesaw.edu
Educating Parents on Infant Safe Sleep to Reduce Sleep-Related Deaths
During my pediatric clinical rotation, I saw parents practicing unsafe sleeping practices with their infants. Infants would sleep with their pillows, blankets and in non-supine positions. There are around 3000 sleep related infant deaths annually in the United States (Patrick et al., 2021). To combat this issue a safe sleep education program should be implemented in labor and delivery and NICU units to ensure parents are getting the proper training before discharge. Parents will attend an education program before discharging from the hospital. The program will be completed in 2 days to ensure the parents are able to ask questions and clearly understand. On day one this program will include a behavior skill training (BST), videos and reading material. With one session of education and BST participants have showed improvement in safe sleep practices (Carrow et al., 2020). A pre-questionnaire will be taken before to assess the patient’s education needs. On day two they will demonstrate or teach back what they learned and upon completion get a children’s book about safe sleep practices. A post-questionnaire will also be taken to see parents’ improvements. Healthcare personnel will also go through training to ensure they are modeling the correct safe sleep practices to parents and give out correct, consistent information. To evaluate the effectiveness of the safe sleep practices program we will use the pre and post questionnaires. Also, upon completion of the project the number of infant sleep related deaths will be compared to the number before the project was implemented.