Scalable digital learning, integrating families as partners in neonatal care
A digital approach enabling anyone, anywhere to champion lived and learned experiences in #FamilyIntegratedCare, spark culture change, and embed the BAPM Framework for Practice using the tried-and-tested ‘Whose Shoes’ approach
Scalable digital learning, integrating families as partners in neonatal care
A digital approach enabling anyone, anywhere to champion lived and learned experiences in #FamilyIntegratedCare, spark culture change, and embed the BAPM Framework for Practice using the tried-and-tested ‘Whose Shoes’ approach
What is the challenge your project is going to address and how does it connect to the theme?
Parents often feel helpless and like they don’t belong on a neonatal unit; they feel like their baby becomes a ‘hospital baby’ and they become ‘theoretical parents’. Bliss (2019) found 52% of neonatal staff experienced compassion fatigue; 24% experienced flashbacks; and 48% had considered leaving due to the impact on their mental health and wellbeing.
Whose Shoes is an award-winning co-production approach that brings humanity back into view. It underpins #MatExp, a powerful grassroots campaign that shares best practice across maternity and neonatal services. The approach was a key factor in the successful business case to build a Surgical NICU addressing the shared concern between Liverpool Women’s and Alder Hey Children’s Hospitals that babies who needed specialist surgery had to be transferred between the two.
We want to create a digital experience that enables learning from best practice, hearing all perspectives, and that embeds FICare culture in all contexts (hospital, home, remote, hybrid).
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