Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

1. Describe different interventions that could be used routinely in the provision of individualized developmentally supportive caregiving including the implementation of a developmental model of care in a cardiac intensive care unit (CICU).
2. Identify assessment tools that provide a window into the physiologic and behavioral effects of individualized developmentally supportive care by outlining the mechanisms of epigenetics and their effect on preterm infant brain development.
3. Identify barriers to the integration of developmentally supportive care and choose strategies to overcome such barriers by recognizing the effects of environmental noise and infant position on cerebral oxygenation.
4. Develop individualized developmental goals including a new relaxation method for preterm infants.