Gravens By Design: The 37th Gravens Conference on the Environment of Care in the NICU convened in Clearwater Beach, FL, on March 6-9, 2024

Robert White, MD, Joy Brown, PhD, Vincent Smith, MD, Mitchell Goldstein, MD, MBA, CML

Selected abstracts from the the 37th Annual Gravens Conference are presented below:

The syllabus to the talks and break-out sections can be found by clicking here.

Poster Abstracts Table of Contents:

  • Gravens 2024-1 The Neuroprotection of Oral Enjoyment by Offering Milk Drops 
  • Gravens 2024-2 Improving Commitment to Family-Centered Care in the NICU: Phase 3 Efforts from the Family-Centered Care Taskforce 
  • Gravens 2024-3 Avoiding antibiotics in chorioamnionitis-exposed infants 
  • Gravens 2024-4 A Blueprint for Implementing Early Progressive Mobility in The Neonatal/Infant Intensive Care Unit for Infants with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) 
  • Gravens 2024-5 Using a Strategy of Concentrating Total Parenteral Nutrition Potentially Provides More Appropriate Growth Parameters 
  • Gravens 2024-6 Case managers at the NICU: Taking care of parents during the roller-coaster of the NICU 
  • Gravens 2024-7 The Long and Winding Road. Cultural Change in the NICU 
  • Gravens 2024-8 Current practices and parental attitudes of the role of neonatal therapies during therapeutic hypothermia for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy 
  • Gravens 2024-9 “It Takes a Village” Sustaining the Family-Centered Care Practices—Single Center Seven year Journey 
  • Gravens 2024-10 Implementation of a Bundle to Prioritize Skin to Skin in the NICU 
  • Gravens 2024-11 The power of three: An interdisciplinary support model for ROP exams in the NICUt 
  • Gravens 2024-12 PIE Anyone? Building a program to promote and maintain NICU staff resiliency 
  • Gravens 2024-13 NICU Infant Developmental Optimization (NIDO): A pilot program to support the development of post-term babies in the NICU 
  • Gravens 2024-14 Nurses’ and parents’ perceptions of family-centered care and light and sound environmental control in the NICU 
  • Gravens 2024-15 Promoting Family Resilience Through Family-Centered Care: Evidence from a Multiple Regression Analysis 
  • Gravens 2024-16 The BABIES Adaptive Behavior Inventory: Measuring developmental adaptation in the first months after discharge. 
  • Gravens 2024-17 Contextual Factors Influencing Maternal Nurturing Touch Patterns Across Time during Dyadic Interactions in the NICU 
  • Gravens 2024-18 PRAMS Pain Recognition Model Classified Neonatal Pain with 98% Accuracy 
  • Gravens 2024-19 Screening for Social Determinants of Health in a NICU Follow-Up Clinic 
  • Gravens 2024-20 Social Vulnerability and Parent Presence in the NICU 
  • Gravens 2024-21 Family at the Bedside: To Stay or Not to Stay? Depends Who You Ask 
  • Gravens 2024-22 Developmental Sensory Care Map 
  • Gravens 2024-23 NICU: Where the Little Things Matter – The Impacts of NICU Unit Design 
  • Gravens 2024-24 Effects of Facilitated Tucking During Routine Caregiving Activities: A Case Series on Preterm Infant Pain Expression 
  • Gravens 2024-25 Standardizing Infant Massage for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: A Qualitative Study 
  • Gravens 2024-26 Implementing a Developmental Care Team 
  • Gravens 2024-27 Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences: Implications for the NICU 
  • Gravens 2024-28 Promoting NICU Support for Successful Home Transitions: The Tiny Tots Interprofessional Pilot Program 
  • Gravens 2024-29 Perceptions of Interdisciplinary NICU Staff on the Physical Environment in a hybrid design level-III NICU 
  • Gravens 2024-30 Evolution of the Auditory Environment of Hospitalized Very Preterm Infants in Relation to Room Type and Parental Presence 
  • Gravens 2024-31 Benefits and Challenges of an Adaptation of FICare for Ugandan Mothers 
  • Gravens 2024-32 Safety trial of the Skincubator: A novel device for early prolonged skin-to-skin-care for very and extreme preterm neonates 
  • Gravens 2024-33 Infant- and Family-Centered Developmental Care Principles, Standards, Competencies and Best Practice Guidelines for Neonatal Intensive Care Practice 
  • Gravens 2024-34 Engagement of Families in a State- Wide Quality Improvement Initiative on Skin-to-Skin Care (SSC) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) 
  • Gravens 2024-35 NICU Design Mythbusters 
  • Gravens 2024-36 Improving Family Involvement of Small Babies through Family Integration, Family Education and Multidisciplinary Teamwork 
  • Gravens 2024-37 Improving Family Centered Care and Perception of Competence Through Implementation of Positive Sensory Input and Neuroprotective Care in NICU Patients 
  • Gravens 2024-38 Examination of Medical and Social Factors Contributing to School Readiness in Preterm Infants 
  • Gravens 2024-39 The effects of a multimodal environmental modulation on sleep stage distribution in preterm infants: a randomized controlled trial 
  • Gravens 2024-40 The Power of Touch: A collaborative, family-centered approach to making Skin-to-Skin Care Safe and Accessible for Infants on High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) 
  • Gravens 2024-41 The Impact of Family Support in a Level III NICU 
  • Gravens 2024-42 Using the First Family Update to Understand Parental Concerns 
  • Gravens 2024-43 Introducing the Cardiac iRainbow: A developmental care path for infants in the cardiac intensive care setting. 
  • Gravens 2024-44 Evaluating Racial Disparities in a NICU Parental Support (Bundle) Program 
  • Gravens 2024-45 Standardization of Delayed Cord Clamping for the Term and Preterm Infant 
  • Gravens 2024-46 Differentiating between disturbing noise and nurturing voice during Skin-to-Skin Contact (SSC). The Skincubator may enable babies to hear gentle maternal speech during SSC while reducing the sleep disturbing monitor alarm noise 
  • Gravens 2024-47 Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating an Anti-bias, Anti-racism, Upstander Course for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Staff 
  • Gravens 2024-48 Inpatient Early Intervention Services and Therapy Adherence in NICU Graduates 
  • Gravens 2024-49 Infant Driven Feeding™: Impact on Short and Long- Term Breast Feeding Success, Length of Stay, and Earlier Gestational Age to Full Feeds for Premature Infants 
  • Gravens 2024-50 Moving Forward from the Past with Equity, Inclusion and Cultural Humility: Contemporizing the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Family Centered Care Model 
  • Gravens 2024-51 Fostering Organizational Trust: Transformative Meeting Strategies for Reducing Healthcare Burnout and Turnover 
  • Gravens 2024-52 Bundle Implementation to Reduce Unplanned Extubations in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 
  • Gravens 2024-53 Embedding Diversity, Equity, and Family Centered Care into an Orientation Curriculum 
  • Gravens 2024-54 Acoustic Characteristics of Recorded Mother’s Voice During the Preterm Period 
  • Gravens 2024-55 Is Early Kangaroo Care Safe in Preterm Infants under 28 weeks? 
  • Gravens 2024-56 Zero-separation in intensive care— Neonatal and obstetric healthcare professionals´ expectations, concerns, and educational needs related to mother-newborn: A qualitative study 
  • Gravens 2024-57 Architectural design, facilities, and family participation in neonatal intensive care units in Spain: a nationwide, multicentre study 
  • Gravens 2024-58 Examining Measures of Family-Centered Care 
  • Gravens 2024-59 Reducing Neonatal Central Line Infections with the Implementation of a Maintenance Bundle 
  • Gravens 2024-60 Implementation of Ultrasound Technology for Peripheral Intravenous Catheterization in the NICU 
  • Gravens 2024-61 Specificity of cortical responses of preterm infants to their recorded mother’s voice 
  • Gravens 2024-62 The Power of Women’s Voices: Reclaiming Dignity in Birth and NICU Care Across Gender, Race, and Class 
  • Gravens 2024-63 Splanchnic and cerebral oxygenation during oral feeding near discharge as an early biomarker of later problematic feeding in high-risk infants 
  • Gravens 2024-64 Implementation of a CPAP Bundle for Standardization of Care and Skin Protection 
  • Gravens 2024-65 Get in the Zone: Integrating Relationship-based Care into Neonatal Therapy Service Delivery 
  • Gravens 2024-66 How to foster meaningful connections with families, and why it matters: Lessons from my life-threatening pregnancy and premature birth journey 
  • Gravens 2024-67 To Err is Human: Improving the Way we Honor our Bedside Mistakes and Support Our Team Do the Same 
  • Gravens 2024-68 Impact of the Environment on Infants in the Intensive Care Nursery 

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