Brand New Course: Cultivating Caregiver Confidence in the NICU

Course Title: Cultivating Caregiver Confidence in the NICU

Course Description: This 1 hour course will explore the intersection of therapist and family NICU experiences through barriers to competence-building for caregivers, current research on caregiver experiences in the NICU, the impact of COVID, strategies or programs being studied to help, and a case study in parent-centered research.

Speaker Bio: Heidi Miller, MS, CCC-SLP is a second career SLP. She spent five years as a Special Educator before returning to graduate school for her Masters in Speech Pathology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. During the course of her SLP career, she has worked in schools, with adults, in pediatric outpatient settings, and currently works full-time at UVA Children’s Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she works in their Level IV NICU, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and general pediatric floors. In addition to her full-time work at UVA, she also writes pediatric therapy content for Therapy Insights and has presented multiple seminars for their CEU program on topics such as Role of the SLP in the PICU and on the topic of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and feeding. She has a passion for family-centered care and collaboration following her experience as a NICU mama with her now three-year-old daughter. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, cooking, and hiking.

Target Audience: OT, SLP, PT, RN, MD, and Neonatal professionals

Level: Intermediate

CE Credit: 1 hour for OT, PT, SLP. This course offers 1.0 hour of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) instruction, and may be applied towards ASHA’s professional development requirement for cultural competency, cultural humility, culturally responsive practice, or DEI.

Course Fee: $57 or Free for NANT Members

Objectives

1. Identify at least three barriers to caregiver competence and family-centered care in the NICU environment.
2. List three strategies to utilize to improve family-centered care in their NICU.
3. Construct a working framework for themselves to use when engaging in parent/caregiver partner sessions with three new strategies they can employ to address inequities in family-centered care.

Instructional Method: Lecture, case studies, handouts, recorded question, and answer session. Learning assessment and course evaluation follow the course.

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