Controversies in Respiratory Care

January to October 2012

The Vermont Oxford Network is pleased to announce a new iNICQ Internet Collaborative, Controversies in Respiratory Care. This series will include five ninety minute web sessions designed to help the multidisciplinary team in your neonatal intensive care unit:

• Assess your own practice.
• Review the evidence.
• Identify opportunities for improvement.
• Translate the evidence into daily practice.

Your team for the sessions may contain as many people as you want. Each team will use a single Internet connection and a single phone line so you will need to schedule the meeting in a conference room large enough to hold your team. You will view the slides over the Internet, and participate in the audio using a conference phone. Most teams will use a digital projector to display the slides.

Although these sessions will stand on their own as state of the art lectures, we have additional aspirations. We want these to be working sessions in which a multidisciplinary team from your NICU applies the evidence to improve your own practice. In light of this we will provide a VON Days audit before each session to assist your team in assessing your local practices. We will also ask you to schedule an additional 30 minutes following each 90 minute web session for your team to remain in the room, reflect on your practice, and identify any opportunities for improvement and next steps for action.

Accelerate your Quality Improvement activities with the new iNICQ Intensive. For the first time, teams can experience accelerated Quality Improvement through VON’s new iNICQ Intensive.

• Four additional 60 minute web sessions designed to share improvement ideas, barriers, and solutions with other teams and faculty.
• Increased interaction with well-known clinical and quality improvement experts
• Collaboration with the community of experienced NICQ centers.
• A day of face-to-face mini-courses and workshops on October 12 in conjunction with the VON Annual Meeting.

The iNICQ series (both regular and Intensive) is approved by the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) as a source of Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Part 4 credit for those participating physicians who meet the criteria established by the ABP.

The fee for participation in the entire series of 5 web sessions is $3250 per team and $5750 per team for iNICQ Intensive members. This includes Continuing Medical Education credits for all participants at no additional fee.

We hope that you will join us! Please register by December 16th using the web registration form below.

Please contact Pam Ford, iNICQ Coordinator, for additional information, email: pam@vtoxford.org Phone: 802 865 4814 Fax: 802 865 9613