Educational Priorities for Providing End-of-Life Care: Parent Perspectives.

Objectives: Partnership with parents is a tenet of pediatric medicine; however, initiatives to include parents in education and research have been limited. Through focus groups, we included parents at the beginning of curriculum development by asking them to identify the priorities, existing supports, and opportunities for improvement in their child's end-of-life (EOL) care.

Methods: English and Spanish-speaking bereaved parents whose child had been cared for by the palliative care team and had died >18 months before the study initiation were invited to participate.

Compassionate extubation protocol to improve team communication and support in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Objective: Compassionate extubation (CE) can be stressful for staff and families in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Our quality improvement initiative developed and implemented a novel symptom management and family support checklist and post-debriefing template to improve team communication and staff support.

Study Design: An interprofessional team performed a needs assessment, determined key drivers and intervention steps, and implemented changes using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles.

Process Evaluation of a Stress Management Program for Low-Income Pregnant Women: The SMART Moms/Mamás LÍSTAS Project.

. The SMART Moms/Mamás LÍSTAS Project was a randomized control trial that tested the efficacy of a prenatal stress management program in reducing stress and cortisol levels among low-income women. The current study is a process evaluation of the stress management program (intervention arm of the original randomized controlled trial) and assessed whether implementation fidelity factors (i.