Course 6: Best Practices in Caring for Newborns with Substance Exposure

Course 6: Best Practices in Caring for Newborns with Substance Exposure

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Course Overview

This course equips healthcare providers with evidence-based strategies for supporting infants affected by Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome/ Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NOWS/NAS). The course highlights the Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) approach, emphasizing non-pharmacologic care techniques that promote family involvement, reduce NICU stays, and improve outcomes for newborns with substance exposure.

Course Content

Credits

1.00
AMA PRA Category 1™ Credits

* AMA PRA Category 1™ credits are used by physicians and other groups like PAs and certain nurses. Category 1 credits are accepted by the ACCME, ARDMS, CCI, and Sonography Canada.

Course Details

Duration
1.00 hour
Released
Apr 30, 2025
Last Review
Apr 30, 2028
Expires
Apr 30, 2028

Objectives

  1. Describe the development and purpose of the Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) approach.

  2. Explain the role and significance of non-pharmacologic care in treating infants with NOWS/NAS.

  3. Identify at least three non-pharmacologic strategies used to support infants with NOWS/NAS.

Target Audience

Clinicians and Staff of Birthing Hospitals

Faculty & Disclosure

Faculty

Matthew Grossman, MD

Disclosure

Matthew Grossman, MD discloses no such relationships exist

Accreditation

AccreditationThis activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Iowa Medical Society (IMS) through the joint providership of Compass Healthcare Collaborative and Stader Opioid Consultants. Compass Healthcare Collaborative is accredited by the IMS to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Credit Designation Compass Healthcare Collaborative  designates this live activity for a maximum of ­­1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Commercial Support This Activity was developed without support from any ineligible company.*The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests – unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company. Disclosure: Compass adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. The content of this activity is not related to products or the business lines of an ACCME-defined ineligible company. None of the planners or moderators for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing products used by or on patients.