Implementing Standardized Feeding Guidelines, Challenges, and Results.

Purpose: The purpose of this article was to develop standardized nutritional guidelines that would promote increased growth velocity (GV) in premature infants.

Design: Evidence-based standardized nutritional guidelines were developed. Guidelines included total parenteral nutrition advancement; enteral feeding advancement; and a bedside nurse gastric residual management algorithm.

Just-in-Time Training: A Novel Approach to Quality Improvement Education.

Just-in-time training (JITT) is accepted in medical education as a training method for newer concepts or seldom-performed procedures. Providing JITT to a large nursing staff may be an effective method to teach quality improvement (QI) initiatives. We sought to determine if JITT could increase knowledge of a specific nutrition QI initiative.