Safe to Sleep Learning Session
The TIPQC Safe to Sleep Learning Session on October 20 featured cultural perspectives on infant sleep as well as suggestions for understanding, communicating with parents, thus improving infant sleep. Speakers included Adriana Bialostozky, MD discussing the Latinx population, Wakako Eklund, DNP, NNP-BC with Japanese and Asian cultures, Angela Booker, RN sharing around the Black culture as well as Barbara Engelhardt, MD highlighting her Eastern European and “grandmotherly” perspective when her family lost a baby to infant sleep. In addition, Anna Morad, MD discussed unsafe sleep comfort products and Courtney Gutman, MD discussed resources and current unsafe sleep practices. All 16 teams participated, with over 79 attendees, and were treated to a primer on run charts by Theresa Scott, MS. Teams left with multiple resources, new ideas, and ready to begin the next PDSA cycle on teaching "safe to sleep" practices in the hospital setting.
