Upcoming Events
The "Experiencing Research" presentations commenced in March and will continue through until November 2023. The aim of the experiencing research initiative is to facilitate increased awareness of current research, and provide an avenue for neonatal nurses to contribute to neonatal research and clinical practice change.
Thursday 29 February 2024
Time: 7 - 8 pm (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra Time)
Title: DRAGON’S DEN: NEONATAL PAIN RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Presenter: Professor Denise Harrison.
Denise Harrison is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Melbourne. She
is the lead of the Be Sweet to Babies team, focused on pain management for neonates, infants and young children in partnership with
parents, clinicians, interdisciplinary researchers and trainees and healthcare organisations. She is working on her next research plans –
to test the effectiveness of a video demonstrating correct ergonomic positioning for nurses and midwives when performing newborn screening
while babies are being breastfed and held skin-skin ergonomics newborn pain video (CLICK
HERE)
on use of breastfeeding, skin-skin or sucrose during heel lances.
Summary: Newborn infants require painful blood tests via heel lance in the few 2 days of life, and sick and preterm
newborns cared for in NICUs and SCN require repeated blood tests during their hospitalisation. High quality evidence supports analgesic
effects of parent-led pain management strategies of breastfeeding, if feasible and culturally acceptable, holding newborns skin-skin (SSC)
against the parents’ chest, and small volumes of oral sweet solutions (sucrose or glucose) during heel lancing. Free publicly available
parent-targeted videos show these strategies in use during heel lance (Breastfeeding and SSC) and venipuncture (sucrose). However national
and international data shows these strategies are inconsistently used. Barriers to facilitating parents to being involved include nurses’
and midwives’ lack knowledge of how to position themselves while performing heel lancing when newborns are being held by parents. Our team
therefore co-produced a clinician-targeted ‘ergonomics’ video showing best positioning of the clinician while parents were breastfeeding or
holding their newborn SSC. Evidence from midwives and neonatal nurses in Australia (N=729) show this clinician-targeted ergonomics video is
persuasive, useful, and likely to improve pain management practices. We now need to evaluate effectiveness of this video, and the
parent-targeted newborn pain video, when implemented into diverse postnatal and NICU settings, in increasing parents’ involvement during
their newborns’ routine blood collection procedures.
Cost: Free for members. $22 for non-members.
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email eso@acnn.org.au.
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Research Seminar Series "Experiencing Research" Presentations
The aim of this initiative is to facilitate increased awareness of current research, and provide an avenue for neonatal nurses to contribute to neonatal research and clinical practice change. Come along to our regular Research SIG meeting and spend the first 30 mins listening to the experience of researchers. Meet and speak with our inspiring presenters! You will hear from researchers with outstanding track records, and as well from novice researchers just starting their careers. Explore and learn more that you ever thought possible! Presentations occur via Zoom.
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Updated 26 September 2023