NUR 593 Module 6 Applied Project PowerPoint Presentation Example

Alone, on the Back, in a Clear Crib: An Applied Project Presentation on Safe Sleep Modeling

Student Name

Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University

NUR 593: Applied Project

Instructor Name

Month Day, Year

Slide 1: Title

Making the ABCs of infant sleep visible to every parent before discharge. Applied Project, MS in Nursing.

Speaker notes: Welcome. My applied project focuses on how nurses on a mother-baby unit model safe infant sleep for parents. The title uses the ABCs of safe sleep, which we will come back to throughout.

Slide 2: The Problem

Roughly 3,500 sleep-related infant deaths a year in the U.S., a rate largely flat since 2000. Hospitals are asked to model safe sleep before discharge.

Speaker notes: Sudden infant death and accidental suffocation in bed are among the sleep-related causes that kill about 3,500 infants a year in the United States, and the rate has been largely flat for two decades (Moon et al., 2022). The AAP asks hospitals to model safe sleep, because parents copy what they see.

Slide 3: What Parents See on Our Unit

Baseline audit of 30 sleeping infants: 30% in a fully safe environment. Common issues: extra items in the bassinet, side positioning, infant asleep in the parent's bed.

Speaker notes: My two-week baseline audit found that only 9 of 30 sleeping infants were in a fully safe environment. Most problems were blankets or items in the bassinet, followed by side positioning and bed sharing. Parents are seeing these practices from us.

Slide 4: The Question

For mother-baby RNs, does safe sleep education plus weekly audits and feedback, versus current practice, increase the percentage of sleeping infants in a fully safe environment over 12 weeks?

Speaker notes: This PICOT question focuses on what parents see, the infant's sleep environment, rather than only on what nurses know.

Slide 5: What the Evidence Says

Knowledge is often high, but practice lags. Bundles with education, visible cues and audits improve sleep environments. Hospital modeling appears to influence parents.

Speaker notes: In a large maternity service, staff knowledge was high but unsafe conditions were common (Stone et al., 2023). A three-hospital study combining education, crib cards, signs and audits improved most observed sleep conditions and parents' recall of teaching (Sleutel et al., 2018). The evidence is mostly quality improvement, but it is consistent.

Slide 6: The Bundle

1. 20-minute nurse education module. 2. Bilingual crib cards and room signs placed where parents and nurses see them at every feeding and diaper change. 3. Bilingual parent teaching script. 4. Bassinet audits every week, with results reviewed at huddle.

Speaker notes: Each part targets a different gap. Education refreshes knowledge, crib cards and signs make the standard visible, the teaching script makes parent messages consistent, and audits let nurses see their own results, which a children's hospital project found to be key to sustained change (Shadman et al., 2016).

Slide 7: Evaluation Plan

Primary: weekly percentage of infants in a fully safe environment, on a run chart. Secondary: nurse knowledge scores; parent recall at discharge. Data coded without identifiers.

Speaker notes: The run chart will show whether changes are followed by a real shift. Knowledge will be tested before and after the module, and a short survey will check whether parents remember the key messages.

Slide 8: What Success Looks Like

Threshold: 80% or more of sleeping infants safe, four weeks running. If met: adopt as unit standard. If not: review with nurses and adjust.

Speaker notes: Moving from 30% to 80% is ambitious but in line with improvements reported in similar projects. If we fall short, the audit data will tell us which element, such as bed sharing, needs a different approach.

Slide 9: Questions for You

How do you handle a tired parent asleep with the baby? What has helped your units sustain audits? How would you adapt the bundle for your setting?

Speaker notes: I would value your comments on these three questions, especially from those of you in maternity, pediatric and emergency settings. Please add your thoughts directly to the slides.

References

Moon, R. Y., Carlin, R. F., Hand, I., & Task Force on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and the Committee on Fetus and Newborn. (2022). Sleep-related infant deaths: Updated 2022 recommendations for reducing infant deaths in the sleep environment. Pediatrics, 150(1), e2022057990. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-057990

Shadman, K. A., Wald, E. R., Smith, W., & Coller, R. J. (2016). Improving safe sleep practices for hospitalized infants. Pediatrics, 138(3), e20154441. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2015-4441

Sleutel, M. R., True, B., Gustus, H., Baldwin, K., & Early, B. (2018). Response to a national issue: Moving beyond "Back to Sleep" at three hospitals. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 43, 16-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2018.07.013

Stone, G., Chase, A., Vidrine, D. C., Singleton, W. W., Kitto, L., Laborde, K., Harper, J., & Sutton, E. F. (2023). Safe newborn sleep practices on a large volume maternity service. MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 48(1), 43-47. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMC.0000000000000879