Our Corporate Sponsors
“Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.”
In the spirit of serving neonatal therapists all over the world, we thank the following NANT 365 Corporate Sponsors for their year-long support, commitment and vision.
We can’t serve the babies in our care without safe, innovative products and services.
Thank you for your ongoing dedication to excellence as we collectively strive to improve quality of life for premature and medically fragile infants everywhere.
Platinum Sponsors
GE Healthcare Maternal-Infant Care
With a shared passion, healthcare providers worldwide rely on GE Healthcare Maternal-Infant Care as their preferred partner to deliver clinically-appropriate, cutting-edge care solutions. Innovative products, exceptional service and clinical education combine to empower healthcare professionals to anticipate, understand and respond to the unique and changing needs of mothers, babies and their families.
For over 50 years, GE Healthcare Maternal-Infant Care has offered advanced technology and innovative designs that help meet the demanding clinical care needs in Labor & Delivery and Neonatal Intensive Care. GE’s products include the Giraffe* and Panda* lines of incubators and warmers, the Corometrics* maternal-fetal monitors, resuscitation and phototherapy systems, and the Carescape* vital signs monitors for neonates.
For more information about our products and services, visit us at www.gehealthcare.com.
Contact Information
Wendy SlateryDirector of Marketing, Maternal Infant Care at GE Healthcare
Wendy.Slatery@med.ge.com
www.gehealthcare.com
Gold Sponsors
Philips Mother & Child Care
Your passion, our commitment
From the hospital to the home, Philips is committed to delivering the next generation of care for mother and child, right from the beginning. We share your passion for doing all you can to provide the best care possible, whatever the course of a new life. And we’re committed to providing you with innovative, clinically proven solutions and a broad range of support. For more than 40 years, Philips has helped caregivers deliver the comprehensive care mothers and babies deserve, whether it’s basic care for a healthy mom or intensive treatment for your most fragile preemie. We recognize that addressing immediate concerns is just as critical as providing long-term developmental well-being. And our innovative, evidence-based solutions are developed to support a baby’s growth, while helping newborns bond with parents and family. In the hospital, Philips breakthrough imaging and monitoring products, developmentally supportive NICU and PICU solutions, and advanced clinical information systems help you plan better, work more efficiently, and make more informed clinical decisions. When it’s time to go home, Philips is there with nursing, feeding, soothing, jaundice management, and monitoring solutions you can use to help mothers, babies and their families get off to a healthy start.
Silver Sponsors
KCBioMedix, Inc.
KCBioMedix, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing products that are used by neonatal healthcare providers to assess and treat the problem of incompetent feeding in the premature infant.
KCBioMedix, Inc.’s first commercially available product is the NTrainer System® which was invented by Steven Barlow, Ph.D., a University of Kansas Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing and Neuroscience, and Don Finan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the University of Colorado. Dr. Barlow is a nationally acknowledged R01 NIH researcher.
The NTrainer System utilizes groundbreaking technology to assess and promote early development and organization of essential sucking skills in premature infants.
The NTrainer System has 2 modes of operation – the Assessment Mode and the Therapy Mode which enables the neonatal caregivers the ability to better manage incompetent feeding in neonates.
The Assessment Mode of the NTrainer System provides standardized, objective, quantitative results with visual and printed reports of the infant’s non-nutritive suck (NNS) organization. NNS is an essential neurological building block in an infant’s coordination of sucking, swallowing and breathing – a capability required for independent oral feeding and the development of a healthy baby.
The Therapy Mode of the NTrainer System provides a clinically proven ororhythmic stimulation therapy which studies have proven effectively accelerates NNS development and oral feeding success in preterm infants who are at risk for oromotor dysfunction.
The NTrainer System promotes developmental care by enabling clinicians and parents to administer valuable therapy during gavage feeding (as well as before breast or bottle feeding) while providing the attention and care infants would normally receive with oral feeding.
Contact Information
Barry PriceDirector Marketing & Business Development
KC Biomedix
bprice@kcbiomedix.com
www.kcbiomedix.com/
2nd Annual NANT Conference
Launching Best Practice for Neonatal Therapy
JOIN US for the next chapter of this journey – a unique and specialized group of therapists and caregivers serving the most fragile patients. We know you love what you do. Be part of the Second Annual NANT Conference and feel the support of hundreds of people just like you!
The National Association of Neonatal Therapists (NANT) is a network created specifically for neonatal occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists. NANT provides multiple ways for neonatal therapists to connect, learn, mentor and inspire while advancing this focused field of therapy on a national level.
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The Monster Called Perfectionism – and the #1 Way to Slay It.
“Remember, there is no road. The road is made by walking.”
~ St. Elizabeth Seton
Do you ever have a project to do and you don’t even know where to begin?
Sometimes the overwhelm of all the pieces and parts you need to make your project complete stops you in your tracks. Sometimes this is so powerful it leads to inaction and your project remains on your To Do List or your Annual Goals at work quarter after quarter, or year after year.
So there’s that. Overwhelm.
Sort of like I felt when I thought about how to bring developmental care to our unit years ago. Or how to add different disciplines to our existing neonatal therapy team. Or how to begin NANT.
But there’s something besides overwhelm. Something harder to pin down. This Monster seems to feed Overwhelm breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The Monster called Perfectionism.
The idea that you must have it ALL FIGURED OUT before you even begin. For example, you want to improve the developmental care practice in your unit. You do a little research and learn there are multiple ways to achieve this. You don’t know which way is best. You don’t know how much it will cost. You aren’t even sure if the NICU would support sending staff out for education or bringing education to them.
You hear that you’d have to find a funding source either way. Ugh.
How are you going to do all this while seeing the 10-20 patients on your schedule today? During your 17 minute lunch? ☺
I so get this.
Some of it is reality. And some of it is thinking that you must have all of those questions answered before you even begin. The perfect plan. That’s the sneakiness of perfectionism. It wears many disguises so you don’t recognize it in a new situation.
This is the #1 most effective way I know to slay the Monster called Perfectionism:
Move.
Take action. Even small baby-step action. Imperfect action. Step-into-a- new- territory action.
Write the email. Ask one question. Attend a Mentoring Call. Ask another NANT member. Schedule the meeting. Survey the staff. Form the research question. Submit the poster.
You don’t have to have it all figured out. No one who creates new things ever does. Do you think Steve Jobs worried about how to package the iPod when he was still working from his garage?
Your Monster called Perfectionism doesn’t know what to do with motion. It freaks out.
Let it.
Tell it you’ll be back later – you have things to accomplish.
The road is made by walking.
Help Build the Future of Neonatal Therapy – in 2 Minutes or Less!
When I first considered forming NANT, I asked myself many questions. “How many neonatal therapists are there in the USA?” “How many are OT, versus PT versus SLP?” “How many of us are there in the WORLD??” “How long are …