Previous Projects
Please note these projects are not currently active and do not have current video education.
Breastfeeding Sustainment
The pediatrician’s role in advocating and supporting proper breastfeeding practices is essential to improve outcomes for both newborn and mother. Currently Tennessee newborns have poor breastfeeding success rates. In Tennessee, only 15.4% of mothers are exclusively breastfeeding at 6 months. This project assisted practices in identifying, implementing and maintaining process changes regarding breastfeeding support.
Click here for the full Breastfeeding Sustainment project summary.
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Newborn Tobacco Exposure Reduction
Both clinicians and the public tend to underestimate the effects of
tobacco use and exposure on pregnancy and human development, though the
science is now clear. Pre-term and underweight births are more likely
to result from tobacco use than alcohol, marijuana or harder drugs. We
also know that 20% of children have at least one smoking parent. Tobacco
use by caregivers represents a major modifiable risk factor for
multiple poor health outcomes. We know that pregnancy and the immediate
post-partum period are a time of high motivation to alter tobacco use.
This project assisted practices in identifying, implementing and
maintaining simple steps to assess newborns tobacco exposure and
increase the rate of caregivers that decrease tobacco exposure to improve health outcomes of their children.
Click here for the full Tobacco Exposure Reduction project summary.
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Asthma
This educational and practice improvement project was designed for primary care providers. This project presented, incorporated and sustained the use of high-value, chronic-care management processes for asthma. These key processes included:
- Timely and scheduled chronic-care visits that mirror the trigger pattern for patients,
- Appropriate use of inhaled corticosteroids in persistent asthmatics,
- Updated asthma action plans,
- Regular asthma control testing,
- Annual spirometry,
- Tobacco exposure reduction and
Influenza prevention.
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To learn more, please contact
Becky Brumley, RDH, MPH
Program Director/Quality Coach
Email: becky.brumley@tnaap.org