Gravens By Design: Selected Abstracts from the 35th Annual Gravens Conference on the Environment of Care for High Risk Newborns: Resiliency and Change in the NICU

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

Selected abstracts from the the 34th Annual Gravens Conference are presented below:

  • Gravens2022-1 Are We Listening: Addressing Health and Racial Equity in the NICU
  • Gravens2022-2 Mothers’ Quality of Sleep during Their Infants’ NICU Hospitalization : Influencing factors and associated characteristics
  • Gravens2022-3 The value of understanding NICU nurse perspectives on voice use and auditory development in very preterm infants
  • Gravens2022-4 Implementation of A Neurodevelopmental Care Bundle to Promote Optimal Brain Development in the Premature Infant
  • Gravens2022-5 Transforming the Culture of Care: Developmental Care Rounds in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  • Gravens2022-6 The STEP Program-A Qualitative Study of Perception & Experience with Supportive Therapeutic Excursion Program
  • Gravens2022-7 Implementation of an Infant Massage Program in a Community Level 3 NICU 
  • Gravens2022-8 Infant Massage as a Stress Management Technique for Parents of Extremely Preterm Infants
  • Gravens2022-9 Family resilience in the NICU: Preliminary evidence of a rapid metasummary
  • Gravens2022-10 Improving communication in the NICU: a qualitative descriptive study of parent and NICU clinician perspectives
  • Gravens2022-11 Daily Graphing of %PO To Guide Feeding Management in the NICU
  • Gravens2022-12 Utilizing An Infant Feeding Scale to Track Feeding Progress in the NICU Population
  • Gravens2022-13 Improving the Patient Experience in the NICU by Enhancing Parent Education
  • Gravens2022-14 Body Wrap Devices and Their Effects on Skin-to-Skin Care in the Neonatal Population: A Pilot Study
  • Gravens2022-15 Single family rooms in the NICU: parents in the lead!
  • Gravens2022-16 Development of a Multidisciplinary Parent Mental Health Program during NICU Hospitalization
  • Gravens2022-17 Feasibility and Acceptability of a Motivational Interviewing Intervention to Increase Maternal Presence in a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  • Gravens2022-18 Barriers to long durations of kangaroo care in neonatal units in the United States
  • Gravens2022-19 Maternal self-report of the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on their presence at bedside in a Level IV NICU
  • Gravens2022-20 Nurses’ implementation of skin-to-skin contact in the NICU is related to their perceptions of family-centered care
  • Gravens2022-21 Health Equity Beyond the NICU: Perspectives from Family, Staff, and National Experts on Improving Accessibility and Experience in NICU Follow-Up Clinic
  • Gravens2022-22 Multidisciplinary Approach to the Creation of Developmental Neuroprotective Care Guidelines in a Level IV NICU
  • Gravens2022-23 Mothers’ of Preterm Infants Subjective Experiences of a Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) Parenting Support Intervention
  • Gravens2022-24 Adaptation and Integration of the Family Centered Care team in NICU decision making processes during a pandemic and transformational changes in the NICU.
  • Gravens2022-25 Nutrition Care Team Experience of Novel Human Milk Fortifier in US Neonatal Intensive Care Units
  • Gravens2022-26 COVID-19 Pandemic Experiences and Maternal Stress in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
  • Gravens2022-27 A Music-Based Intervention to Reduce Stress in the Hospitalized Preterm Infant 
  • Gravens2022-28 “My Brigham Baby” App: Using Technology to Advance Parent Engagement and Promote Resilience in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  • Gravens2022-29 “There’s No Place Like Home” — Improving NICU Discharge Education and Preparation
  • Gravens2022-30 Identifying Barriers to Quality Mother-Infant Interactions in the NICU through Naturalistic Systematic Observations 
  • Gravens2022-31 You’ve Got Milk: A NICU Lactation Journey
  • Gravens2022-32 Quality Improvement Project to Achieve Early Full Enteral Feeds in Preterm Infants at a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  • Gravens2022-33 Skin Integrity: Reducing Diaper Dermatitis in the NICU
  • Gravens2022-34 Thermoregulation: A Developmentally Focused, Infant-Driven Transition from Isolette to Open Crib
  • Gravens2022-35 Incubator-based noise control system: quantifying size of attenuation zone
  • Gravens2022-36 Characteristics and Outcomes of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome in Preterm Infants: A Retrospective Cohort Study in the Current Era
  • Gravens2022-37 Empowering Parents, Expediting Discharge, and Promoting Long-Term Feeding Success with Cue-Based Feeding and Telehealth Home NG Follow-Up Clinic
  • Gravens2022-38 An Educational Approach to Increase the Use of Kangaroo Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  • Gravens2022-39 Understanding the Couplet Care Environment and its effect on bonding between the mother and infant dyad
  • Gravens2022-40 Organizational Health Literacy: Information and Environmental Assessments of a NICU Follow-Up Clinic