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Neonatal Quality Improvement Trainee Ongoing Projects

99 - Reduction of CLABSIs in a LEVEL IV NICU Utilizing a Broadened Line Placement Algorithm

100 - Fewer Pokes, Stronger Starts: Minimizing Painful Procedures in the NICU

100 - Preserving Tiny Guts: A QI Journey to Optimize NEC Antibiotic Stewardship

101 - Delayed Cord Clamping in Preterm Infants: A Quality Improvement Initiative

101 - Feeding practice in extremely low gestational age neonates (ELGANs)

102 - Optimizing Early Detection and Management of Vitamin D Deficiency in NICU Patients: A Quality Improvement Initiative

102 - Reducing Rates of Post-Operative Hypothermia in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Initiative

103 - Obtaining Birth Weight in the Delivery Room: A Golden Hour Quality Improvement Initiative

103 - Reducing Early Readmissions after Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge: A Quality Improvement Project

104 - Improving Timely Completion of Golden Hour Targets in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

105 - Implementation of a Care Bundle to Prevent Skin Injuries in Neonates Undergoing Continuous Electroencephalogram

105 - Small Patients, Big Needs: Implementing Social Drivers of Health (SDoH) Screening Across the NICU Continuum

106 - Implementation of the Safe Sleep Initiative to Improve Education, Documentation and Equity in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

106 - Reducing Time to Surfactant Administration with the Lung Ultrasound Score: A Quality Improvement Study

107 - Implementation of a Pilot Nasogastric Tube Home Discharge Program in a level IV NICU

107 - Improving Early Colostrum Feeding in Preterm Infants: A NICU Quality Improvement Initiative

108 - Improving Admission Normothermia for Infants <32 Weeks at a Community Level III NICU

108 - Noninferiority Study Assessing Accuracy of pH Testing for Nasogastric and Orogastric Tube Placement vs Radiography

109 - Implementation of a Quality Improvement Intervention to Reduce Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Very Low Birth Weight Infants at 4 NEOCOSUR Centers.

109 - Ready, Set, Discharge: Improving NICU Discharge Efficiency and Reducing Parental Burden

110 - Evaluating Risk Factors to Create a Risk Assessment Tool to Reduce Unplanned Extubations in a Level IV NICU

110 - Increasing rates of family caregiver holding of infants in a surgical NICU: a quality improvement initiative

111 - Implementation of an Aortic Arch Watch Protocol for Neonatal Patients at Risk of Coarctation of the Aorta in a Large Tertiary NICU Setting

111 - Virtual Human Factors Table-top Evaluations to Improve Neonatal Resuscitation in Rural Hospitals

112 - Improving Lactation Outcome in Parents of Preterm Infants Through Documentation of First Pump

112 - Prevention of Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants at a Single-Center Level IV NICU: A Quality Improvement Initiative

113 - A multicenter safety-net NICU quality improvement collaborative shows sustained and equitable improvement in maternal milk at discharge rates in VLBW infants.

113 - Beyond the Bundle: An Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative for NICU CLABSI Prevention

114 - Does real-time Point-of-Care Ultrasound(POCUS) for neonatal Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter(nPICC) tip confirmation in NICU reduces the Catheter Line Associated Blood Stream Infection (CLABSI)?

114 - Implementing a Feeding Protocol During Therapeutic Hypothermia for Neonates with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy: A Quality Improvement Initiative

115 - Can a Clinical Care Bundle Protect Against NEC in the NICU?

116 - Improving Vaccination Rates in a Level IV NICU

116 - Optimization of Initiation to Cannulation – Neonatal (OPTIC-NEO)

117 - Implementing a Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Screening Program in a Level IV NICU

117 - Reducing the Incidence of PIV Infiltration and Extravasation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): A Quality Improvement Initiative.

118 - Adherence to Updated Oxygen Saturation Guidelines: Successes and Challenges of a Quality Improvement Initiative

118 - SOLVE: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Approach to Shorten NICU Stay for Infants ≥35 Weeks

119 - Implementation of a Multicenter EHR Rounding Checklist Tool Supporting Neonatal Quality Improvement and Safety

119 - Implementation of “Surfactant Silver Hour” to decrease the time to surfactant administration in early preterm infants (<32 weeks)- A Quality Improvement Project

120 - From the Intensive Care Unit to High Risk Infant Follow Up Clinic: An Ongoing Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve High Risk Follow-Up After Discharge

120 - Reduction of prolonged antibiotics in culture-negative sepsis (CNS), through a continuous quality improvement (QI) program in the NICU of Hospital Cayetano Heredia (HCH), Lima, Peru.

121 - Small Steps, Big Gains: Improving Growth in Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

121 - Weaning guidelines for Stopping CPAP in Preterm Infants Born at ≤29 Weeks Estimated Gestational Age: A QI initiative

122 - A multicentre implementation study of home phototherapy for neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia (TREAT jaundice@home study).

122 - Protecting Tiny Eyes: Histogram Monitoring in the Neonatal ICU for Prevention of ROP

123 - Brave enough to try, smart enough to stop: A lesson in knowing when to discontinue a new intervention

123 - Enhancing Maternal Mental Health: A Quality Improvement Project Implementing Postpartum Depression Screening in a Level IV NICU

124 - A Novel Use of Risk Stratification Tools to Identify Quality Improvement Targets for the Reduction of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Rates

125 - Multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) colonization rates during a sustained antibiotic stewardship program in a Level IV NICU

126 - Autorefractometer Vision Screening in NICU Follow-Up Clinic: A Quality Improvement Initiative

127 - Improving the Workflow of the Newborn Nursery

128 - Defining challenges in obtaining research consent in a level IV NICU

129 - Following Through with NICU Follow-Up: A Quality Improvement Project

130 - Enhancing Neonatal Resuscitation Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impact of a Targeted Quality Improvement Training

131 - Quality Improvement Initiative: Implementation of a Standardized NICU-Specific Social Determinants of Health Screener

132 - Enhancing NICU Discharge Processes: A Quality Improvement Approach to Earlier Discharges by 11 am

133 - Increasing Interpreter Utilization for Birth Parents with a Preferred Language Other than English (PLOE) in the Delivery Room (DR)

134 - Optimizing ETT Depth and Preventing Unplanned Extubation in Neonates via Utilizing Gestational Age Charts: A QI Interventions

135 - Golden Hour: A Golden Opportunity to Improve Early Care in Very Preterm Infants

136 - Treating the Unknown: Patterns of Antibiotic Use in Culture-Negative Sepsis

137 - Standardizing Serial Sarnat Exams in the NICU Within the First Six Hours of Life

138 - Reducing Barriers to Providing Targeted Oxygen Saturation in Preterm Infants

139 - Implementing Minimally Invasive Surfactant Therapy at McMaster Children’s Hospital’s NICU: A pre- and post-implementation cohort study

140 - Implementation of Surfactant Administration through Laryngeal Mask or Supraglottic Airway (SALSA) as part of a Gentle Ventilation approach

141 - From Pathway to Practice: Implementing Evidence-Based Quality Improvement for ELBW Care

142 - Evaluating the Impact of an evidence based bilirubin discharge bundle on readmission rate of newborns due to indirect hyperbilirubinemia

143 - Reducing PIVIE in the NICU: 6 Years of Improvement and Sustainability

144 - A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Unplanned Extubations in the NICU

145 - Standardized Bilirubin Phototherapy Systems (SBPS): A Metrology- Driven Platform for Accurate, Real-Time Irradiance Measurement in Neonatal Phototherapy

753 - A Clearer View: Leveraging Cardiac POCUS to Minimize NICU Radiation Exposure

754 - QI Initiative to Reduce Invasive Ventilation in Extreme Preterm Infants

755 - Tennessee’s Tiniest Babies: Reducing Severe Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Very Preterm Infants

756 - Increasing the Rate of Timely Discharges in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

757 - Less Invasive, More Impactful: QI project to bring LISA to level 4 NICU

758 - Warming Up to Better Outcomes: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Reducing Post-Operative Hypothermia in a Level IV NICU

759 - Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation: A Quality Improvement Project Guided by Practice Preference Measurement

760 - Statewide Quality Collaborative to Optimize Newborn Care Delivery Practices and Outcomes Across Alabama

761 - Reconfiguring Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Discharge Planning Processes To Promote Early Discharges In A Level III-C NICU

762 - Decreasing Early Hypoglycemia in Preterm Infants

763 - Breaking the Habit: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Eliminate Gastric Residual Checks in the NICU with Nursing Insights

764 - Reduction of Postoperative Tracheostomy Related Pressure Injuries in a Level IV NICU and PICU

765 - Achieving Early Vascular Access for Preterm Infants in the Golden Hour

766 - Predicting Neonatal Outcomes in the Presence of Heterogeneity: Lessons Learned from the Neocosur Network

767 - Sustained CLABSI Reduction in a Level IV NICU Through Insertion & Maintenance Bundle Reliability with CHG Bathing and Audit Changes: Jan 2020–September 2025

768 - Tennessee’s Tiniest Babies: Reducing Chronic Lung Disease in Very Preterm Infants

769 - Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Program in Kaiser Permanente Southern California Neonatal Intensive Care Units: 3-Year Regional Quality Improvement Project

770 - Systematic Preventive Bundled Care and a Culture of Consistency Sustained Low Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Rates in High-Risk Preterm Infants: A 10-Year NICU Quality Improvement Project

771 - STEM Evaluation of Neonatal CATCH: 30-day Post-Discharge Remote Management of Complex NICU Graduates

772 - Outcomes of Implementation of Surveillance and Decolonization for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Midwest Neonatal

773 - From Continuous to Conscious: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Continuous Opioid Infusions in Extremely Preterm Neonates

774 - Project REFER (Reinforcing Engagement on Follow-ups for External Referrals)

775 - Improving Social Determinants of Health Screening in a High-Risk Infant Follow-Up Clinic: A Quality Improvement Initiative

776 - Reducing Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcus Positive Blood Cultures in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Multidisciplinary Approach

777 - Improving Outcomes of Extremely Preterm Infants Through a Small Baby Program: A Collaborative Quality Improvement Approach

778 - Improving Breast Milk Oral Care (BMOC) in the NICU through an Equity-Focused QI Initiative

779 - Improving Kangaroo Care in a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with a Focus on Families with Preferred Language Other than English

780 - Clear View, First Try: A Quality Improvement Approach to Neonatal Intubation

781 - Optimizing Risk-Adjusted Mortality Outcomes in a Level IV NICU Using Quality Improvement Strategies

782 - Reduction in Severe Intraventricular Hemorrhage Following Implementation of a Small Baby Program: A Tertiary NICU Quality Improvement Study

783 - Improving the Provision of Mother’s Own Milk in a Referral Level IV NICU

784 - Staying in the Target Zone: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Achieve Oxygen Goal Saturations in Preterm Infants

TOP 24 - Dexmedetomidine as First-Intention Sedation in Preterm Infants: A Quality Improvement Initiative

TOP 25 - Improving support at home: Using quality improvement to increase discharge home health referrals for infants with in utero opioid exposure

TOP 26 - Equitable Increase in Skin-to-Skin in ELBW and VLBW Infants, Including on High Frequency Jet Ventilator - A Quality Improvement Initiative

TOP 27 - Optimizing Cord Management at Birth: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative.

TOP 28 - Improving Admission Temperature In Neonates ≤ 32 Weeks’ Gestational Age: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative

TOP 29 - Human vs Artificial Intelligence Scheduling in NICU Fellowship: A Randomized Quality Initiative to Evaluate Fellow Satisfaction, Fairness, and Perceived Scheduling Source

TOP 30 - Impact of Implementation of Standardized Guideline for Postnatal Dexamethasone Administration on Outcomes of Premature Neonates

TOP 31 - SWEET: Standardized Workflow to Enhance Early Treatment and Reduce Hypoglycemia in Neonates

TOP 32 - A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Fractures Associated with Metabolic Bone Disease of Prematurity

TOP 33 - Optimizing Diuretic Management in Extremely Preterm Infants with Evolving Chronic Lung Disease Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)