Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment

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Newborn Individualized Developmental
Care and Assessment
NIDCAP

NIDCAP

Overview

Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) Training is a system for assessing and supporting the individual strengths of prematurely born and other high medical risk infants while they are still in the hospital, including a caregiving approach that focusses on each infant’s unique behavioral communications and adapts care and the caregiving environment (www.nidcap.org).

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Our faculty is comprised of NIDCAP trainers and NIDCAP Professionals who are experienced in the challenges of implementation in NICUs and who come from a variety of disciplines including OT, PT, Speech, Parenting high risk babies, Nursing, Neurophysiology and Psychology. Thus, our faculty is well versed in the complexities of how to work as a team and how to implement neuroprotective strategies from a variety of perspectives.

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FINE* U.S. Level 1

Family and Infant Neurobehavioral Education Training 1 is the first level in the FINE program, which introduces the scope of family-centered care and the evidence that supports it. FINE 1 is a 1 1 /2 to 2 day (depending on hospital interest and needs) foundation that provides evidence-based science for a variety of topics (e.g. sleep, feeding, positioning, observation, etc.) and hands on workshops for people to practice skills like developmentally supportive KMC transfers, positioning of complex babies, feeding issues, etc.).

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FIFI

The Fragile Infant Feeding Instituteis a 4 1/2 day intensive study of feeding and nutrition for infants with special needs. The interprofessional institute focuses on hospital and community feeding practices and encourages close interaction between the faculty and participants.

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FINE* U.S. Level 2

Practical Skills for Family Centered Developmental Care follows the FINE 1 Foundation Course, bridging the gap between theory and practice in Infant and Family Centered Developmental Care (IFCDC). FINE 2 is a 12-16 week mentored experience that provides the professional with activities to practice family centered and infant supportive developmental care implementation at the bedside. Each “module” allows the professional to apply principles of observation, intervention and reflection in a weekly program that does not take them away from the bedside. Mentoring of their reflective journals and worksheets is provided by experienced faculty who are also NIDCAP trainers.

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APIB

Assessment of Preterm Infant Behavior is a comprehensive, systematic assessment of the preterm and full-term newborn, and provides a valuable resource in support of developmental care provision by professionals and families. It is a neurodevelopmental diagnostic instrument for clinicians and developmental consultants in the nursery setting, such as psychologists, neonatologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, developmental pediatricians, and advance practice nurse clinicians.

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NIDCAP

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Rapprochement Model

The Rapprochement Model aims to assist staff members who care for fragile babies in intensive care settings with a step by step model of supporting parents to progress to full skin to skin holding from a cognitive, emotional and behavioral perspective. The model assumes that the abrupt separation from the regulatory interaction of the mother and fetus needs to be carefully resumed through smell, voice, and touch after birth, especially for the fragile infant.

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WONDERbabies Offers Additional
Resources to Use in Your Practice

Wonderbabies Caregiver Guide

The WONDERbabies Caregiver Guide was developed utilizing information from both the BABIES domains of development as well as the PreSTEPS model of caregiver contributions to supporting infant development. It is intended to inform caregivers in what to expect their baby to do, ways to support their baby, things to look for along the way as well as reflective questions to ask themselves across the six BABIES developmental domains. It also provides “red flags” to watch for in both babies and parents/caregivers, along with a host of resources to connect with.

Included with all purchases are directions for the community provider on how to best use the Guide with primary caregivers.

Who this is for: Caregivers of fragile newborns and young infants

Goal: To provide information to caregivers about developmental building blocks for fragile newborns and young infants

Faculty: Kristin Frank, OTR, CIMI and Jennifer Harrrison, MS, CLE, CIMI

To order the Caregiver/Family Guide, please contact us here.

“Getting to Know Your Baby” Guide/Pamphlet – Electronic versions in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic

The “Getting to Know Your Baby” Guide is a 35-page booklet with photographs of typical communication behaviors of the developing preterm and term newborn. Used to help primary caregivers understand the approach and avoidance behaviors of babies, it sets the stage for how to support babies when they are overloaded and to promote optimal development. Based on Als’ Synactive Theory, it covers observable autonomic, motor, state, interaction and self regulation behaviors that can guide care. It is available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.

To order the “Getting to Know Your Baby” Guide/Pamphlet please contact us here.