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ARCHIVED CONTACT HOUR PROGRAMS
Archived Events
Gentle Growth: The Development of a Single Room Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
The webinar will provide healthcare professionals with guiding principles for the development of a single room NICU and the effects of single room NICU on the premature infant.Objectives:
- Identify three guiding principles for the design of a neonatal intensive care unit.
- Recognize the effects of Single Room NICU on the premature infant.
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James Padbury, MD James Padbury, MD practices neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pediatrics and the Oh-Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is widely published in peer review journals and is a nationally and internationally invited speaker on a variety of fetal and neonatal topics. |
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Marybeth Taub, RNC, BSN Marybeth Taub, RNC, BSN is the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurse Manager at Women and Infants’ Hospital of Rhode Island. She is responsible for 24/7 accountability for a 80 bed level III NICU. She has worked in NICU since 1981 and is certified as a High Risk Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse. |
Recorded Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
Member Fee: Free
Access to these archived events for Members and MTFs requires a one-time website registration. If you have not registered yet, please complete either the NPIC/QAS Member or Military Treatment Facility registration form.
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Non-Member Fee: $25.00
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Disruptive Behavior: A Hidden Threat to Healthcare
The webinar will provide maternal/child nurses information on how disruptive behavior can affect perinatal care within organizations and how organizations and leadership can potentially eliminate the behavior.Objectives:
- Describe how to recognize the components and spectrum of disruptive physician behavior as it applies to perinatal care.
- State how disruptive behavior can affect the organization and increase the risk for errors in the management of obstetrical patients.
- Identify how the organization in conjunction with the medical staff leadership can eliminate the behavior from the organization.
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Larry L. Veltman, MD, FACOG Dr. Larry Veltman practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Portland, Oregon for 31 years; retiring in January, 2007. While he was in practice, he was Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for ten years at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland. Dr. Veltman is Past Chair of the Committee on Professional Liability for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and currently serves on ACOG’s Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Committee. He is currently a consultant with respect to a variety of subjects dealing with medical malpractice, patient safety, and risk management as they relate to perinatal care. |
Recorded Date: Wednesday, April. 28, 2010
Duration: 1 hour
Member Fee: Free
Access to these archived events for Members and MTFs requires a one-time website registration. If you have not registered yet, please complete either the NPIC/QAS Member or Military Treatment Facility registration form.
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Non-Member Fee: $25.00
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Using Simulation to Close the Gap Between What We Know and What We Do
This webinar will provide maternal/child nurses with the basics of using simulation by providing an immersive patient care experience and creating and capturing the objective performance measures in a dynamic simulation setting.Objectives:
- Describe the basic flow of providing an immersive patient care management experience.
- Identify the importance of creating and capturing objective performance measures in a dynamic setting.
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Jane Kleinman, RN, MAOM Ms. Kleinman is a senior level healthcare professional with demonstrated success in program analysis, design, development, infrastructure implementation, regulatory compliance, and operational turn-around. She is faculty and director of special projects at Loma Linda University Medical School Medical Simulation. |
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Kristy Ann Chambers, RN, MSN Ms. Chambers has specialty expertise with operations, space design based on program need, equipment options, inter-professional scenario writing with performance based outcome measures and faculty training with mentoring in simulation education methodology. She is a Master Trainer for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Team STEPPS and has contributed as an author and software programmer on multiple national simulation projects. Both speakers are principles of the Medical Simulation Design, Inc. which provides comprehensive integrated program planning, design, implementation and sustainability for medical simulation education programs. |
Recorded Date: Wednesday, Mar. 31, 2010
Duration: 1 hour
Member Fee: Free
Access to these archived events for Members and MTFs requires a one-time website registration. If you have not registered yet, please complete either the NPIC/QAS Member or Military Treatment Facility registration form.
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Non-Member Fee: $25.00
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Productivity Model
This webinar will provide maternal/child nurses with basics for a productivity model in Labor and Delivery.Objectives:
- Determine the basic principles of productivity measurement.
- Identify common challenges to Perinatal Productivity measurement and management.
- Describe the population based productivity model.
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Kristine Larison, RNC, BSN, MBA-HCA Kristine Larison has twenty years of high risk obstetric nursing experience and seven years of nursing management. She is the Director of Maternal/Child Services at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, OR. She has widely spoken on quality in obstetrics including PURE Conversations and on multiple perinatal quality improvement initiatives. Her many publications include topics around teamwork, safety and communication in the perinatal area. Additionally, Kristine is a content expert for an SBARR and Operative vaginal delivery e-learning course for Advanced Practice Strategies. |
Recorded Date: Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010
Duration: 1 hour
Member Fee: Free
Access to these archived events for Members and MTFs requires a one-time website registration. If you have not registered yet, please complete either the NPIC/QAS Member or Military Treatment Facility registration form.
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Non-Member Fee: $25.00
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Preventing Late Preterm Births since Every Week Counts
This webinar will provide maternal/child nurses with evidence based information on the Late Preterm Infant.Objectives:
- Review the impact of late preterm birth (34 0/7-36 6/7 wks) on increasing rates of preterm birth in the US.
- Discuss the evidence that "every week counts" (short and long term sequellae.)
- Describe some evidence based interventions that can prevent some preventable late preterm birth.
- Present some preliminary results from the Kentucky based initiative Healthy Babies are Worth the Wait.
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Karla Damus PhD, MSPH, RN, FAAN Dr. Damus is an Associate Clinical Professor and Dir. of the Div. of Public Health and Community Programs in the Dept. of Ob/Gyn and Women's Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is a consultant to the Office of the Medical Director at the National Office of the March of Dimes where she designed and is Program Director of the national model initiative to reduce preterm births in Kentucky - Healthy Babies are Worth the Wait. Dr. Damus is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow of the NY Academy of Medicine, and a member of: the Select Expert Panel on Preconception Health, and the Nurse Advisory Council for the National March of Dimes. She is also a consultant to the Ob/Gyn Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Damus is a perinatal epidemiologist and nurse, having received her PhD in epidemiology from the University of California and two masters degrees from UCLA in Nursing and Public Health. |
Recorded Date: Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010
Duration: 1 hour
Member Fee: Free
Access to these archived events for Members and MTFs requires a one-time website registration. If you have not registered yet, please complete either the NPIC/QAS Member or Military Treatment Facility registration form.
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Non-Member Fee: $25.00
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Postpartum Depression
This webinar will provide maternal/child nurses with an overview on postpartum depression and a review of resources.Objectives:
- Distinguish between postpartum depression and other postpartum psychiatric presentations.
- Name the prevalence and risk factors for postpartum depressions.
- Identify two screening tools specific to postpartum depression.
- Describe the role of the non-mental health providers in addressing postpartum depression.
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Margaret Howard, PhD Margaret Howard, PhD, is the director of the Day Hospital and a clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Howard received her PhD in clinical psychology from Southern Illinois University and completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University. Dr. Howard has 30 years experience in assessing and treating individuals in inpatient, outpatient, and partial hospital settings. Past and current areas of expertise include PTSD, eating disorders, addictions, and mood and anxiety disorders. For the past 12 years, she has focused exclusively on the treatment of perinatal women with mental health disorders. Dr. Howard has published, taught, and lectured widely on the topic of perinatal psychiatric disorders and was the recipient of the 2003 Eli Lilly Welcome Back Award which recognized five individuals nationwide for their innovative approach to the recognition and treatment of depression. |
Recorded Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Duration: 1 hour
Member Fee: Free
Access to these archived events for Members and MTFs requires a one-time website registration. If you have not registered yet, please complete either the NPIC/QAS Member or Military Treatment Facility registration form.
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Non-Member Fee: $25.00
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The Joint Commission New Perinatal Care Core Measure Set
This webinar will provide maternal/child nurses with an overview and discussion of the new Joint Commission Perinatal Care Measures.Objectives:
- Describe the development of The Joint Commission Perinatal Care Measure Set
- Discuss each of the New Joint Commission Perinatal Care Measures
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Celeste G. Milton, MPH, BSN, RN Ms. Milton joined The Joint Commission in 2002 and has worked in the office of quality monitoring and in the sentinel event unit prior to assuming her position as associate project director in the center for performance measurement in the division of quality measurement and research. Ms. Milton is the project lead for two national projects that developed core performance measures for hospital-based inpatient psychiatric services (HBIPS) and perinatal care (PC). Ms. Milton is currently responsible for directing all phases of the PC project including overseeing the development of technical specifications for a final set of ORYX core performance measures. |
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Janet H. Muri, MBA Janet H. Muri, President of NPIC/QAS, oversees all collection, processing and analysis of clinical and financial data submitted by NPIC/QAS member hospitals and state, federal and private data sources related to contract work conducted by NPIC/QAS. Ms. Muri is an expert in directing the manipulation and analysis of large, complex state and federal data sets. Ms. Muri has a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Health Care Management from Boston University. |
Recorded Date: Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
Duration: 1 hour
Member Fee: Free
Access to these archived events for Members and MTFs requires a one-time website registration. If you have not registered yet, please complete either the NPIC/QAS Member or Military Treatment Facility registration form.
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Non-Member Fee: $25.00
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Perinatal Data: Historical Perspective and Current Applications
The goal of the Perinatal Data: Historical Perspective and Current Applications webinar is to provide individuals with a historical overview on data and basic information on maternal/child data that is available to them and how they might utilize the data in practice and for strategic planning.Objectives:
- Explain one significant use of Perinatal data in nursing's history
- Discuss how Perinatal data can assist in everyday practice and strategic planning
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Janet Muri, MBA Janet H. Muri, President of NPIC/QAS, oversees all collection, processing and analysis of clinical and financial data submitted by NPIC/QAS member hospitals and state, federal and private data sources related to contract work conducted by NPIC/QAS. Ms. Muri is an expert in directing the manipulation and analysis of large, complex state and federal data sets. Ms. Muri has a Master of Business Administration (cum laude) with a concentration in Health Care Management from Boston University. |
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Julie Shocksnider, RNC-HROB, APN, C, MS, CCE Julie Shocksnider assists in strategic planning/implementation and provides perinatal clinical expertise. Julie is a Perinatal Nurse Practitioner, Maternal/Child Clinical Nurse Specialist and Childbirth Educator. She is certified as a High Risk Obstetric Nurse with experience caring for antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum women/families. Julie has a Master of Science degree with a focus in maternal/child nursing from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Louisville. |
Recorded Date: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009
Duration: 1 hour
Member Fee: Free
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Non-Member Fee: Free
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