Welcome to the heart of our collaborative spirit. At CPQCC, we know that the most powerful improvements often come from the practical, on-the-ground solutions developed by NICU teams like yours. This Resource Hub is a dedicated space for sharing the innovative tools, protocols, and educational materials that are making a real difference in neonatal care.
Explore a living library of peer-vetted tools developed and implemented by your CPQCC peers.
Members of CPQCC's California NICU Family Advisory Council share their experiences with communication, highlighting what helped, what didn’t, and how connection shaped their NICU journeys. Their stories reflect diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and languages. By uplifting the voices and experiences of NICU parents, we aim to help empower NICU families through their journeys while educating NICU teams and inspiring more compassionate, family centered care across California.
Updated: January 30, 2025
Hospital Donor Milk Implementation Toolkit, UC Health Milk Bank
Author: Alison Wolf, CPNP, from UC Health Milk Bank
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Updated: November 17, 2023
Guidelines for Perinatal Management of the Extremely Premature Infant during the First Week of Life
The OASCN Resource Bundle was developed by the Optimizing Antibiotic Stewardship in California NICUs (OASCN) Collaborative in 2021 and 2022, which was led by CPQCC, the RAND Corporation, and The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, and supported by a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (Grant# R18HS26168-01A1).
This PDSA Worksheet is intended to help you think through and document your Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycles as you test change ideas. Doing small, iterative tests of change using a PDSA cycle is one of the central components of all quality improvement work.
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The HIE Calculator is intended to promote the identification and early referral of babies at risk for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). It does not determine if a baby should be cooled. The decision to proceed with cooling should only be made after consultation with a Regional Cooling Center (CCS numbered letter), based upon their institutional criteria.
Congenital syphilis can be transmitted from mother to infant during pregnancy and/or delivery and can cause severe complications including premature birth, low birth weight, birth defects, blindness, hearing loss, stillbirth and infant death. California has experienced a steep increase in syphilis infection among pregnant women in recent years and a subsequent rise in the number of cases of congenital syphilis among infants.
The NICU Site Visit Guide aims to help healthcare providers evaluate the care delivery context within their NICU. The guide is intended to stimulate inquiry into how care is delivered and allow for reflection and discussion on the conditions required for delivering high-quality NICU care. While using the guide, providers are encouraged to walk-through the NICU, participate in rounds, observe interactions between staff/families, converse with a reasonably broad cross-section of NICU staff (leadership as well as bedside MDs, NNPs, RNs) and assess the unit across multiple domains (e.g.
