NICU: Interventions for Parental Stress
This course provides nurses and social workers with the knowledge and skills to support parents of medically fragile infants in the NICU. Participants will explore the unique challenges these parents face, such as stress, trauma, and impaired bonding, and learn evidence-based interventions to promote family-centered care. Learners will examine critical topics including parental stressors, attachment theory, and implicit bias in NICU care. The course emphasizes practical strategies like fostering open communication, encouraging skin-to-skin contact, and empowering parents to take an active role in their infant's care. By understanding the psychosocial needs of NICU families, participants will gain tools to improve parental well-being, enhance parent-infant bonding, and contribute to better neonatal outcomes.
This course provides nurses and social workers with the knowledge and skills to support parents of medically fragile infants in the NICU. Participants will explore the unique challenges these parents face, such as stress, trauma, and impaired bonding, and learn evidence-based interventions to promote family-centered care. Learners will examine critical topics including parental stressors, attachment theory, and implicit bias in NICU care. The course emphasizes practical strategies like fostering open communication, encouraging skin-to-skin contact, and empowering parents to take an active role in their infant's care. By understanding the psychosocial needs of NICU families, participants will gain tools to improve parental well-being, enhance parent-infant bonding, and contribute to better neonatal outcomes.
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In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Nurses will receive 1.00 Nursing Contact Hours after successfully completing this course.
Association of Social Work Boards
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Relias LLC is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Relias LLC maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 1296487 continuing education credits.
Course Delivery Format: Asynchronous Distance Learning-interaction includes quizzes with questions and answers, post-tests. This module is 290.
California Board of Registered Nursing
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP# 13791
Nurses will receive 1.00 contact hours for participating in this course.
Commission for Case Manager Certification
This program has been pre-approved by The Commission for Case Manager Certification to provide 1.0000 hours of continuing education credit to CCM® board certified case managers.
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
This activity is approved for 1.00 contact hours.
Florida Board of Psychology
Florida Board Of Psychology (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
Psychologists will receive 1.00 hours.
Michigan Board of Social Work
Michigan Board of Social Work (CEBroker Provider # 50-290)
This activity is approved for 1.00 contact hours.
New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice
New York State Education Department, Office of the Professions, Division of Professional Licensing Services, Social Work Unit
Relias, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0009.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of licensed master social work and licensed clinical social work in New York. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice for an LMSW and LCSW. A licensee who practices beyond the authorized scope of practice could be charged with unprofessional conduct under the Education Law and Regents Rules.
As a provider of online, asynchronous education, some courses offered by Relias Learning are considered “self-study” under section 74.10(c)(2)(ii)(b)(4) of the Commissioner’s Regulations. The regulations limit self-study activities taken from a provider approved by the Education Department to no more than 12 hours in the 36-month registration period or one-third of the hours in a registration period other than 36 months.
Social workers will receive 1.00 continuing education hours for participating in this course. This activity is approved for 1.00 contact hours.
North Dakota Board of Social Work Examiners
North Dakota Board of Social Work Examiners (CEBroker Provider # 50-290)
This activity is approved for 1.00 contact hours.
Ohio Social Worker Board
Continuing education accepted due to a rule change accepting other state licensing boards for counselors, social workers, marriage & family therapists.
Course Category: General/Clinical
South Carolina Board of Social Work Examiners
South Carolina Board of Social Work Examiners (CEBroker Provider 50-290)
Tennessee Board of Social Workers
West Virginia Board of Social Work
West Virginia Board of Social Work (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
Identify the common stressors experienced by parents of infants in the NICU and how these stressors impact the parent-infant dyad and neonatal development.
Recognize the psychosocial needs of NICU parents and the importance of family-centered care in addressing emotional, practical, and relational challenges.
Recall evidence-based strategies and interventions, such as open communication, skin-to-skin contact, and parental empowerment, that support stress reduction and bonding for NICU parents.
Outline:
Section 1: Parental Stress in the NICU
Challenges of the NICU
Knowledge Check
Key Takeaways
Section 2: Parental Needs and Stressors
Stressors and Needs of the NICU Parent
Knowledge Check
Key Takeaways
Section 3: Supporting NICU Parents
Supporting Parents in the NICU
Knowledge Check
Key Takeaways
Section 4: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributors
Resources
References
Subject Matter Expert: Kelly LaMonica, DNP, MSN, RNC-OB, EFM
Writer: Stephanie M. Smith MS, BSN, RN, CPNKelly completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice at Grand Canyon University in 2019. She received her MSN at the University of Phoenix in 2011. Dr. LaMonica is a member of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nursing (AWHONN) and sits on the Educational Advisory Committee for AWHONN. She was also named a Corresponding Member of the 2020 Research Advisory Panel of AWHONN. Dr. LaMonica is also a member of Sigma Theta Tau International. She is certified in Inpatient Obstetrics and Electronic Fetal Monitoring. Dr. LaMonica is an NRP Instructor. She was a Labor and Delivery Nurse Manager for 3 years and was a Perinatal Risk Nurse for the past 8 years and was a labor and delivery nurse for 7 years prior to that. Dr. LaMonica has also been a Clinical Instructor at Rutgers University and Raritan Valley Community College.
Stephanie was educated and trained in New York State as a Licensed Practical Nurse where she practiced pediatric hematology/oncology nursing at the Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. She earned her Associate in Science in Nursing, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and Master of Science in Nursing with a concentration in Nursing Leadership and Administration from Excelsior College in New York. Stephanie is a Certified Pediatric Nurse (CPN), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certified, and a former PALS instructor. She has over 25 years of clinical nursing experience with expertise in acute pediatric medical surgical nursing and case management for children with medical complexity. She most recently worked at Duke Children’s Hospital as a Nurse Clinician before coming to Relias.
The target audience for this course is: Nursing Personnel; Social Workers; in the following settings: Ambulatory Care, Clinics: Primary Care, Clinics: Rural Health, Hospitals: Acute, Hospitals: Critical Access (CAHs).
Asynchronous/Online Distance Learning; please see certificate details for specifics on delivery format.
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To earn continuing education credit for this course you must achieve a passing score of 80% on the post-test and complete the course evaluation.
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