Abstracts from the 32nd Annual Gravens Conference on the Environment of Care for High Risk Newborns, in collaboration with the March of Dimes

Robert White, MD

The abstracts from the 32nd Annual Gravens Conference are presented below. Read full Abstracts in the downloadable article below.

Poster Abstracts Table of Contents:

  • Gravens2019-1 Online Video-based Supplement for APIB and NIDCAP Education 
  • Gravens2019-3 Combatting Compassion Fatigue with Resilience in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurses 
  • Gravens2019-6 A comparison of NICU nurses’ stress and the quality of their work environment in an open-ward and a new unit of both pods and single-family rooms 
  • Gravens2019-8 Getting there- a journey to optimal breastfeeding in the NICU using the vehicles of a statewide breastfeeding collaborative and the Baby Friendly Project 
  • Gravens2019-9 Comparison of breastmilk production from mothers of premature and mature NICU’s babies during the first week in our NICU 
  • Gravens2019-10 Long-term effects of neonatal complications on brain growth at 10 years of age in children born extremely preterm 
  • Gravens2019-12 Neocosur HIC as an early risk prediction model of severe IVH: how effective is it? 
  • Gravens2019-16 The role of continuous Kangaroo Mother Care and intermittent Kangaroo Mother Care for gain velocity and IgA secretory fecal in preterm baby 
  • Gravens2019-18 Reducing Noise in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Project 
  • Gravens2019-19 Spiritual Struggles in Relation to Parents’ Mental Health and Well-Being Post-Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge 
  • Gravens2019-20 Volunteer Cuddlers as Developmental Care Partners in the NICU 
  • Gravens2019-22 Parents Demonstrate Heightened Emotional Arousal by Skin Conductance and Stress/Coping Behaviors while Telling their Personal NICU Story 
  • Gravens2019-23 Postpartum maternal communication during The Golden Hour is key: How well are we doing? 
  • Gravens2019-24 Family Centered Care Program in a Community Level 3 NICU: From Womb to NICU and Beyond… 
  • Gravens2019-25 Path to home starts at birth: benefits of consistent, early discharge teaching using technology as a supplemental resource. 
  • Graven2019-26 NIC-C Nightshift Happiness Squad Decreases Stress and Increases Coworker Connectedness 
  • Gravens2019-27 Implementing a Primary Rehabilitation Therapy Model in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 
  • Gravens2019-29 Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceived Self-competency Regarding individualized Developmental Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 
  • Gravens2019-30 Building walls. Building relationships. Tearing down hierarchies. A journey towards fully integrating families in neonatal care. 
  • Gravens2019-31 Supporting and Enhancing NICU Sensory Experiences (SENSE): a guideline for positive, appropriate, and developmentally-timed sensory exposures in the NICU 
  • Gravens2019-37 NICU Infant Positioning Project 
  • Gravens2019-38 A pilot study: Pediatricians’ ratings of infants’ who had varied medical diagnoses related to disability and their expected advice for the infants’ parents. 
  • Gravens2019-41 MyNICU: Be a part of the team. A quality improvement initiative using online technology to connect NICU families to their baby. 
  • Gravens2019-42 On The Cusp of Life and Death, Choose Life 
  • Gravens2019-45 Swallowing Dysfunction in The NICU – Silent Aspiration is Common, but Therapeutic Compensations Can Help 
  • Gravens2019-46 Home enteral feeding for NICU graduates: Developing and implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines 
  • Gravens2019-47 Integrated Feeding Therapy Adds Value to NICU Follow-Up Programs 
  • Gravens2019-48 Pediatric Feeding Disorder: Consensus Definition and Conceptual Framework 
  • Gravens2019-54 Catalysts for change: The impact of lighting, noise, and design on perceptions of the NICU environment 
  • Gravens2019-56 Implementation of Infant Driven Feeding Protocol in a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 
  • Gravens2019-61 B.S.A.F.E. 
  • Gravens2019-62 Lessons of Transformation: Learning from 30 years of NICU planning and design 
  • Gravens2019-63 Finding the Suite Spot 
  • Gravens2019-64 Bringing Babies and Parents Together: Jet ventilation and skin to skin, a multidisciplinary approach