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Does An Educational Intervention For Registered Nurses Improve Comprehension And Accuracy Of Scoring The Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Tool On Newborns?, Michelle Porter

ATU Theses and Dissertations 2021 - Present

This study aims to prove that improved comprehension of the Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool on neonates born to mothers with addiction will decrease the length of stay and decrease medical interventions. The Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool consists of 21 questions with different symptoms, each associated with a number. This scoring is compared to determine the degree of learning or increase in knowledge after the educational presentation. Participants (N= 16) were recruited through a convenience sampling of registered nurses working at an acute care hospital in Northwest Arkansas on a Women’s and Children’s department. The participants completed a …