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ARCHIVED CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Archived Continuing Education programs are offered free of charge to staff at our member perinatal hospitals and member military treatment facilities.
There is a $25.00 fee for non-member participants. Links to NPIC/QAS member perinatal hospitals and member MTFs can be found below.
» View Member Perinatal Hospitals
» View Member Military Treatment Facilities
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NPIC/QAS offers Continuing Education programs that are approved by the Rhode Island State Nurses Association for contact hours. |
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Women & Infants Hospital is accredited by the Rhode Island Medical Society to sponsor intrastate continuing education for physicians. Women & Infants Hospital designates this online educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity |
1/25/12 - Traumatic Childbirth and Its Resulting PTSD 
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This webinar should provide healthcare professionals with an understanding of the prevalence and impact of traumatic birth on the mother and family. |
Objectives:
- Identify the essential components of a traumatic childbirth
- Identify the prevalence of birth trauma and PTSD due to childbirth
- Describe the experience of PTSD due to childbirth
- Describe the experiences of mothers at the yearly anniversary of their traumatic birth
- Discuss the different ways that birth trauma canimpact mothers’ breastfeeding experiences
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Cheryl Tatano Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN
Dr. Beck is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut, School of Nursing. She also has a joint appointment to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the School of Medicine. Her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing is from Western Connecticut State University. She received her Master’s degree in maternal-newborn nursing from Yale University. Cheryl is a certified nurse-midwife. She received her certificate in nurse-midwifery also from Yale University. Her Doctor of Nursing Science degree is from Boston University. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She has received numerous awards such as the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nursing’s Distinguished Professional Service Award, Eastern Nursing Research Society’s Distinguished Researcher Award, the Distinguished Alumna Award from Yale University and the Connecticut Nurses’ Association’s Diamond Jubilee Award for her contribution to nursing research. She has been appointed to the President’s Advisory Council of Postpartum Support International.
Over the past 25 years Cheryl has focused her research efforts on developing a research program on postpartum mood and anxiety disorders. She has extensively researched these devastating disorders that plague new mothers using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Based on the findings from her series of qualitative studies, Cheryl has developed the Postpartum Depression Screening Scale (PDSS) which is published by Western Psychological Services. She is a prolific writer who has published over 125 journal articles. Cheryl is co-author with Dr. Denise Polit of the textbook, Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice. This text received the 2007 AJN Book of the Year Award. Cheryl also co-authored with Dr. Jeanne Driscoll another book entitled Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide which received the 2006 AJN Book of the Year Award. Currently, Cheryl’s research efforts are focused on (1) Traumatic childbirth: The Fathers’ Perspective and (2) the effect of DHA during pregnancy on postpartum depression. Regarding her international speaking experiences, Cheryl has given invited presentations in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the U.K., Estonia, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Cape Town South Africa.
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Reducing the Risks of Vacuum-Assisted Deliveries: A Practical Approach
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This webinar should provide healthcare professionals with an overview of current practice for vacuum-assisted deliveries. |
Objectives:
- List indications and contraindications for vacuum delivery
- Identify obstetrical factors that influence the outcome of vacuum delivery
- Discuss the anatomical principles, clinical reasoning and technical skills required for the use of vacuum delivery
- Compare and contrast the efficacy of the vacuum products available
- Identify when to abandon the procedure
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded: November 16, 2011
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1.0 Contact Hour
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Ross W. McQuivey, MD
Dr. Ross W. McQuivey is the Medical Director and consulting physician for Clinical Innovations, Inc. He is also an Adjunct Clinical Faculty Member of Stanford University Hospital's Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. He has served as a visiting professor in the Port Moresby General Hospital (Papua New Guinea) as an outreach obstetrician and working directly with Dr. Aldo Vacca. He is dedicated to improving women and children's healthcare. He leads Clinical Innovation's educational efforts and assists in the research, design and clinical testing of new products. Dr. McQuivey completed his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and did his medical school and residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah. During his residency, he was twice recognized for excellence in teaching. Dr. McQuivey has been published numerous times on vacuum delivery. Over the past ten years, he has been providing educational seminars on vacuum-assisted delivery to physicians around the world.
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Maternal Mortality Review in the 21st Century
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This webinar should provide healthcare professionals with an overview of current maternal mortality data and review perinatal quality improvement initiatives. |
Objectives:
- Describe the historic evolution of the maternal mortality review process
- Describe the concept and potential usefulness of "near-miss" maternal morbidity reviews
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded: October 5, 2011
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1.0 Contact Hour
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Mandatory for physicians
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Michael Varner, MD
Dr. Varner is a native of Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School. He served his internship, Obstetrics & Gynecology residency and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at the University of Iowa and remained on the Iowa faculty for six years thereafter. He joined the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Utah in 1987 and currently serves as Professor and Vice-Chair for Research. He developed the Utah Obstetrics & Gynecology Research Network, a consortium of over 60 research personnel who conduct and administer the many clinical trial networks - both obstetric and gynecologic - in which the Department participates. This Network currently conducts NIH-funded clinical trials in 12 hospitals and the offices of over 140 women's health providers along the northern Utah urban corridor. Dr. Varner currently serves as the Principal Investigator for the University of Utah's NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network site and is a co-investigator on five other grants. From 2000-2007 he was the Principal Investigator of a NICHD Global Network for a Women's and Children's Health Research site in Lhasa, Tibet. His major interest lies in clinical trials and research administration. He has authored or co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts. In addition to his Departmental obligations, he is the Director of Perinatal Research for Intermountain Healthcare, the Co-Chair of the Publications Committee for the National Children's Study, the Associate Director for Women's Health Research of the University of Utah's Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CTSA award), the Co-Director of the University of Utah's Institute for Women's and Children's Health Research, and the Interim Director of the University of Utah's Personalized Healthcare Program.
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Addressing In-Hospital Newborn Falls
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This webinar should provide healthcare professionals with the current incidence on in-hospital newborn falls, factors that increase in-hospital newborn falls and potential interventions to prevent in-hospital newborn falls. |
Objectives:
- Recognize there is an undefined and underreported prevalence of newborn falls/drops in the hospital
- Identify three inherent factors during hospitalization that increase the risk of a newborn fall/drop
- Describe four potential interventions to prevent newborn falls
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded: May 4, 2011
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1.0 Contact Hour
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Mandatory for physicians
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Linda Helsley, RNC, MSN, CNS
Linda Helsley, RNC, MSN, CNS is the Director of Regional Newborn Services in the Women & Children's Program in Providence Health & Services of Oregon. Providence has eight hospitals in Oregon with ~ 12,000 births per year. Linda is involved with the development & implementation of quality & safety initiatives in newborn clinical care and has been in this position for six years. The past five years Linda, Dr. John McDonald and a multidisciplinary committee have been tracking and identifying the prevalence of in-hospital newborn falls. The work was published this summer in the July 2010 Joint Commission Journal on Quality & Patient Safety. Linda is a Clinical Nurse Specialist with graduate work completed at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland and undergraduate degrees in Psychology & Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Trial of Labor After Cesarean Delivery: New Thoughts on an Old Problem
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This webinar should provide healthcare professionals with current ACOG VBAC recommendations, to understand the difference between a Trial of Labor after a Cesarean Birth (TOLAC) and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Birth (VBAC). |
Objectives:
- Contrast a Trial of Labor After Cesarean (TOLAC) and Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
- Identify benefits and barriers women may experience when considering a trial of labor after cesarean delivery
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded: April 13, 2011
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1.0 Contact Hour
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Mandatory for physicians
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Jeffrey Ecker, MD
Dr. Jeffrey Ecker is an Associate Professor in Obstetrics, Gynecology and reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School and practices high-risk obstetrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and is Director of Clinical Obstetric Research. Dr. Ecker has received multiple awards in related to perinatal medicine and is the principal investigator for multiple research endeavors. One recent example is his involvement in a study of variation in and outcomes associate with second stage of labor. He has participated in grant reviews and editorial activities. He is a member of many professional societies, provides multiple professional lectures on perinatal topics and is widely published in peer review journals. Dr. Ecker has served as Vice-Chair of ACOG's Committee on Practice Bulletins and chair of ACOG's Committee on Ethics, and in each role has helped developed\practice recommendations for obstetricians/gynecologists including recommendations related to trials of labor among women who have had past cesarean deliveries.
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Improving Care Response to Obstetric Hemorrhage
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This program should provide healthcare professionals with the incidence, risk factors, and current recommendations for the preparation and treatment of obstetric hemorrhage. |
Objectives:
- Describe the incidence and risk factors for postpartum hemorrhage
- Identify approaches and preparations for the treatment of maternal hemorrhage
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded: March 23, 2011
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1.0 Contact Hour
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Mandatory for physicians
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David Lagrew, MD
Dr. David Lagrew, Jr. is a Clinical Professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California, Irvine. He is in fetal diagnostics at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in California and is certified in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Dr. Lagrew is the Co-Chair for the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) OB Hemorrhage Expert Task Force which has produced an Obstetric (OB) Hemorrhage Toolkit, "Improving Care Response to Obstetric Hemorrhage" which is a resource for health care providers to improve readiness, recognition, response and reporting of hemorrhage. He has spoken widely on perinatal topics and has published multiple professional articles. In 2008 and 2009 he received the Patients' Choice Award and 2007 to 2008 received Best Doctors in America.
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Environmental & Occupational Exposures on Reproductive Health
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This webinar should provide healthcare professionals with current recommendations for the screening, basic prevention and then control strategies for the care of patients with environmental exposure. |
Objectives:
- Describe the routes of exposure to environmental toxins that have the potential to adversely impact reproductive health
- Identify selected adverse reproductive outcomes associated with exposure to environmental toxicants
- Identify basic prevention and control strategies in clinical practice to protect reproductive health
- Describe how to apply knowledge of environmental toxicants with the potential to adversely impact reproductive health to identify at-risk patients, provide guidance, and make appropriate referrals
- Discuss how to provide patients with current and easy-to-understand information about mitigation and prevention of environmental toxicants in the home and work environment
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded: February 16, 2011
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1.0 Contact Hour
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Mandatory for physicians
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Stephanie Chalupka, EdD, RN, PHCNS-BC, FAAOHN
Dr. Stephanie Chalupka received her Doctor of Education in Higher Educational Policy, Research and Administration at the University of Massachusetts in the area of College of Teaching and Learning in Nursing. She is currently a professor of Nursing and Director of Science in the Nursing Program at Worcester State College in Massachusetts. Dr. Chalupka has spoken widely and has been consulted on the topic of environment exposures. She is a peer reviewer for multiple journals and has been widely published. She is the Principal Investigator for many grants.
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