Nancy Travis, MS, BSN, IBCLC, Ped-BC, CPN
Director, Women and Neonatal Services
Lee Health
Cape Coral, FL
AWHONN FL Section Chair
Both the childbirth educator and the perinatal/mother-infant nurse have important roles to enhance the confidence of parents caring for their newborns. An important aspect of care for new parents is the awareness and promotion of newborn skin health. This is aided by developmental diapering techniques. Incorporating the importance of evidence-based care into well-newborn discharge education is imperative.
This standardized approach to teaching both staff and parents is eye opening to diaper changing. Often thought of as a simple task (“Who doesn’t know how to change a diaper?”) developmental diaper changing incorporates five “C’s” of diapering: Clean and Calm, Change and Check, Comfort, Champion Sleep, and Confidence and Closeness. The presenter will discuss each of these aspects of diapering. Each of these diapering aspects assists with attachment, involving the extended family in the care of the newborn, and describes ways to connect and bond with the newborn.
This presentation offers a just-in-time, simulation-based course providing hands-on developmental diapering instruction. Its focus is on both the education of patients for the transition to home as well as on continued professional development of the nursing staff. It is beneficial for a nurse in any role that involves caring for newborns.
Zoom Link will be sent a few days before webinar to participants.
Bellin Health is an approved provider of continuing nursing professional development by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Bellin Health is the provider of nursing contact hours in a joint provider collaboration with the Association of Women’s Health Obstetrics and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN).
