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Impact Of Cue-Based Feeding Protocol On Premature Infants' Outcomes And Hospital Length Of Stay, Diana Michele Easley Cormier
Impact Of Cue-Based Feeding Protocol On Premature Infants' Outcomes And Hospital Length Of Stay, Diana Michele Easley Cormier
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The project was an oral feeding practice change from traditional, gestational-age/volume-driven feeding progression to developmentally-based, infant-driven feeding progression. The infant-driven (cue-based) feeding protocol was implemented with goals to improve premature infants' feeding outcomes, and decreased the infant's length of hospitalization. The project was designed to implement a cue-based feeding protocol for oral feeding initiation and progression, within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC), and then retrospectively evaluate the impact of the cue-based feeding protocol on feeding outcomes. In order to realize full implementation of a NICU feeding practice change, multiple components, such as electronic …