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Send us Fan Mail What do you do when a feeder-grower has tried every bottle, nipple, and pacing strategy and still can’t finish a feed? On this Journal Club, Daphna brings a palate cleanser after yesterday’s deep dive on probiotics: a retrospective study from Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital testing banana puree as a natural thickener for NICU infants with dysphagia. Among 43 mature preterm infants who had failed standard interventions, oral intake rose from about half of feeds to ful...
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Send us Fan Mail What happens inside a feeding tube left in place for days at a time? Daphna and Christa reunite with Dr. Leslie Parker of the University of Florida. Dr. Parker shares not yet published findings from her study comparing feeding tube changes every two days versus every seven days, with less biofilm and bacterial contamination in more frequently changed tubes. She then turns to her work as a legal consultant, explaining why thorough documentation of what you saw, what you did, a...
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Send us Fan Mail Recording live at the FANNP National Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Symposium, Daphna and Christa sit down with Dr. Jacqui Hoffman, associate professor in the DNP NNP track at Rush University and the symposium’s speaker coordinator. She shares what keeps the conference fresh, from on-demand sessions to hands-on PICC and ventilator workshops, and why she finds the work fulfilling rather than thankless. The conversation then turns to the neonatal workforce: declining NNP enrollmen...