Promoting awareness of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among health professionals and the public through nursing faculty champions

Ma, Lili; Puskar, Kathryn; Kane, Irene; Knapp, Emily A.; Mitchell, Ann M.

doi:10.5430/jnep.v8n2p125

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 17 publications

(25 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Members of the Eval workgroup included representation from each of the DSW teams, CDC members, and an outside contractor for evaluation. The purpose of the IP workgroup was to develop online training modules on interprofessional care for the prevention of FASDs, given the importance of interprofessional collaborative care to healthcare delivery [17,18,19]. An interprofessional approach to training is particularly relevant for practice-based interventions such as alcohol SBI, which typically involves a variety of clinical staff in screening, educating, intervening, and possible referral for treatment [20,21].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Partnering with the Health Professions to Promote Prevention of an Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy: Lessons Learned from an Academic–Organizational Collaborative

Lepper

King

Doll

et al. 2019

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: Evidence-based strategies exist to train healthcare professionals to ask their patients and clients about alcohol use, and are successful. Implementation of these strategies utilizing a system-level approach has not been conducted nationwide. This case study reports on the success of academic partnerships with national health professional organizations to increase adoption of evidence-based strategies to prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies. Methods: Authors reviewed and summarized multi-level strategies created as part of the developmental phase of this project in order to report successes and challenges. We applied the three principles of reflection, sense-making, and reciprocal learning, as identified in the practice change literature, to synthesize our experience. Results: There were five primary lessons learned as a result of this work: Development of technology-based training websites requires significant time to design, implement, and test; project ‘mission-drift’ is inevitable, but not necessarily unwelcome; time and effort is required to create and sustain functioning workgroups when there are different organizational cultures; and changing real-world practice is hard to do, yet changing the conversation on screening and brief intervention is possible. Conclusions: Use of multi-level strategies within an academic–professional organization model was successful in promoting awareness and education of healthcare professionals in the prevention of alcohol-exposed pregnancies.

show abstract