Deliver High-Quality, Holistic Evidence-Based Care:

• Knowledgeable: Utilize comprehensive clinical expertise and evidence-based best practices as you optimize patient and family outcomes. Stay current with the latest research and continuously update your knowledge and skills.

Foster a Healing Environment:

• Healing Intention: Create a nurturing, supportive environment that promotes healing and well-being for patients and families. Use healing intention to positively influence physiological and psychological outcomes.

Promote Personal Well-Being and Resilience:

• Personal Wholeness: Embrace practices that support your personal health and balance, ensuring you can sustain your professional commitment and provide compassionate care over the long term.

Exhibit Courage and Resilience in Clinical Practice:

• Courage: Face fear, adversity, and uncertainty with strength and resolve. Make ethical and effective decisions, even in challenging situations, to ensure the best outcomes for your patients.

Advocate for Patients and Colleagues:

• Advocacy: Actively support and promote the rights, needs, and interests of patients, families and colleagues. Drive systemic changes that benefit all stakeholders, ensuring equitable, compassionate and evidence-based care.

Serve as a Role Model and Mentor:

• Role Model and Mentor: Guide and support families and colleagues, demonstrating professional behaviors and attitudes that align with TIDC. Foster a culture of inclusivity and continuous learning and professional development.

Engage in Scholarly Activities:

• Scholarship: Contribute to the advancement of trauma-informed care through research and scholarship. Promote evidence-based practices and stay engaged in continuous learning to enhance care quality.

Lead Positive Change in Healthcare:

• Leader for Change: Develop and implement initiatives that drive positive change within the healthcare system. Foster a culture of continuous quality improvement, innovation, and compassion.

Implement Core Measures of TIDC:

• Healing Environment: Apply knowledge to create and maintain a healing environment that supports the physical and emotional safety of patients.

• Protected Sleep: Implement strategies to protect and promote sleep for NICU patients and their families, understanding its critical importance for development and recovery.

• Activities of Daily Living (ADLs): Incorporate knowledge about care routines that support infant/family development and reduce stress.

• Pain & Stress: Utilize evidence-based techniques to prevent and manage pain and reduce stress, ensuring patient comfort and safety.

• Compassionate Collaborative Relationships: Build strong, empathetic and authentic relationships with families and colleagues through effective communication and shared knowledge.

Uphold Principles of TIDC:

• Safety: Ensure both physical and emotional safety for patients, families, and staff.

• Transparency and Trust: Build trust through clear, open communication and transparency in care processes.

• Healthy Relationships and Interactions: Foster positive, supportive relationships and interactions among patients, families, and healthcare providers.

• Empowerment, Voice, and Choice: Empower patients and families by giving them a voice in their care and respecting their choices.

• Equity, Anti-bias, Cultural and Gender Affirmation: Address and affirm cultural, gender, and individual differences to provide equitable care, promoting inclusivity in all aspects of care.