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  • Maggiano's Little Italy 240 Oakbrook Center Oak Brook, IL, 60523 United States (map)

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Conference Agenda
5:00pm Registration & Cash Bar open
5:30pm GCANN Inaugural Business Meeting; Conference Welcome; Appetizers Served
6:00pm Family Style Dinner
6:30pm Quality Improvement and Necrotizing Enterocolitis presented by Dr. Aloka Patel, MD
7:30pm Break & Dessert
7:45pm Feeding Intolerance: What's going on in There? presented by Terry Johnson, APN, NNP-BC, ASPPS, CLEC, MN
8:45pm Evaluation & Closing Remarks

 

Featuring Speakers:

Terry S. Johnson, APN, NNP-BC, MN

Dr. Aloka Patel, MD, Division Chief, Section of Neonatology - Rush University Medical Center

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Research Director for the Section of Neonatology, Rush University Medical Center


 
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Program Objectives:

  • Describe the role of feeding guidelines in NEC QI efforts

  • Describe the role of mother’s own milk and donor milk in NEC QI efforts

  • Describe the role of antibiotic stewardship in NEC QI efforts

  • Identify two specific clinical presentations  associated with feeding intolerance.

  • Develop an objective and clinically measurable definition of “feeding intolerance” in the    premature or low birth weight infant.

  • Discuss the significance of having definitions of feeding intolerance tied to the feeding protocol.

  • Give an example of a nurse-driven assessment tool for feeding intolerance in the NICU population

SUGGESTED NCC MAINTENANCE CODE: Physiology and Pathophysiology, Code 2

 

This activity has been submitted to the Ohio Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. The Ohio Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91).

Please call Adelaide Caprio at 312.947.8826 for more information about contact hours.