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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.
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NPIC/QAS Continuing Education program approved by the Rhode Island State Nurses Association (RISNA) for 1.0 Perinatal Nursing Continuing Education Unit (CEU) contact hour. |
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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 |
CenteringPregnancy: A Model of Group Prenatal Care
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This webinar should provide healthcare professionals with an overview of the CenteringPregnancy model for group prenatal care. |
Objectives:
- Identify three essential elements of the CenteringPregnancy model of Group Prenatal Care (GPNC)
- Examine potential benefits for GPNC
- Identify challenges in implementing GPNC in a new clinical setting
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded: April 11, 2012
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
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1.0 Contact Hour
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Mandatory for physicians
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Presenter Information
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Holly Powell Kennedy, PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN
Dr. Kennedy is an internationally known midwifery researcher who is the first person to be appointed as the Varney Professor of Midwifery at Yale in 2009. She has broad experience as a clinician, researcher, policymaker, and leader in maternal-child health care. She is President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM). She has held academic positions at the University of Rhode Island, and the University of California, San Francisco. She holds visiting faculty appointments at King's College London and the University of Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Kennedy's research is committed to understanding the links between how care is provided during pregnancy and birth with clinical and social outcomes. She has employed research methods to examine provision of care in complex settings and with various models. Dr. Kennedy has numerous publications and has presented her work multiple times, both nationally and internationally. She has been the recipient of research awards and grants that have helped promote care models supportive of the childbearing process. Dr. Kennedy plans to use past research findings to support future translational study that uses participatory action research to examine and enhance birth culture and best practices within complex tertiary hospital birth units.
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Identification and Care of the Pregnant Opiate Dependent Woman
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This webinar should provide healthcare professionals with an overview of current maternal issues around addiction in pregnancy and gain information on efforts to improve maternal/infant outcomes when addiction is identified. |
Objectives:
- Discuss practitioner findings that may raise concerns that the pregnant woman has a possible issue with substance abuse
- Compare differences in approaches to drug therapies used for opiate replacement therapy
- Describe Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Duration: 1 hour
Recorded: March 21, 2012
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1.0 Contact Hour
1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Mandatory for physicians
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Presenter Information
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M. Bawn Maguire, MSN, RN
M. Bawn Maguire is the Coordinator of Outreach Services and Maternal Addiction Services at Magee Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is responsible for development of a comprehensive hospital-based prenatal program for women with opiate addiction. She coordinates educational activities in community hospitals with physician and professional providers based on identified needs. As a perinatal clinical nurse specialist, she has provided direct and indirect nursing care to patients with complex obstetrical problems. She has been involved in the activities for nursing and medical education. Ms. Maguire holds a BSN and MSN from the University of Pittsburgh.
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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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