UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES IN MATERNAL AND PERINATAL DEATH
Provided by
The Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey
April 14, 2016
9:00am to 3:00 pm
Hackensack UMC at Pascack Valley
250 Old Hook Road
Main Conference Room
Westwood, NJ 07675
Conference Goal
The purpose of this activity is to enable the learner to consider perinatal loss from atypical perspectives including establishing a hospital based perinatal bereavement program, compassionate care in the Emergency Department, neonatal palliative care and maternal death in the perinatal period and have increased awareness of and how to provide resources for patient and family support.
Presenters
Kara Hennessy, RNC-OB, MSN is a Mastered Prepared nurse with over 8 years experience. She has completed the RTS® Bereavement Coordinator Training and now serves as the Bereavement Committee Chairperson for the staff at Hackensack University Medical Center. She is also an Adjunct Faculty OB Clinical Instructor for Felician College.
Joyce Merrigan, BSN, RTSBC, RNC-OB, is an NCC certified OB RN and bereavement care coordinator. She is currently pursuing her certification in perinatal loss (CPLC) and is also a fulltime DNP student focusing her doctoral project on the principles and methodologies of perinatal bereavement care for Emergency Department nurses with specific application to miscarriage.
Katharine Donaldson, MSN, APN, C, CPLC, C-EFM, is an Advanced Practice Nurse in Maternity Services and provides perinatal and palliative care services at Capital Healthcare System. She has 31 years experience with perinatal and neonatal bereavement and has served multiple times as faculty for the RTS® Bereavement Grief Support Training.
Catherine Vieira, BSN, CCE, has completed the RTS® Bereavement Coordinator Training and currently provides follow-up telephone support and referral for mental health services to women at risk for postpartum depression including women who have suffered a perinatal loss. She has also coordinated and presented educational sessions focused on supporting staff during perinatal loss.
Carly Worman Ryan, MA, is certified as an RTS® Perinatal Bereavement Coordinator/Trainer and has been manager of a regional Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program (FIMR) for more than ten years. She has performed chart abstractions and maternal interviews related to infant deaths. On multiple occasions Carly has also taught nurses and social workers on how to best support grieving families.
Domenica Comfort is a professional photographer, who volunteers her talent and time to many non-profit organizations. She believes it is important to give back whatever way we can through our talents and time. She currently volunteers her services with the organization, Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (NILMDTS), that provides professional photographs as a remembrance for the grieving family.
Marie Walter, MSN, AP, is an Advanced Practice Nurse who is certified as an RTS® Bereavement Support Faculty Member. She is also certified in Fetal Monitoring, (C-EFM) and in Perinatal Loss Care. Marie has presented locally, state-wide, and nationally on a wide variety of obstetric topics including perinatal bereavement, perinatal palliative care and motivational interviewing.
Target Audience
Nurses and social workers working in perinatal settings
Objectives
As a result of attending the continuing education program, participants will be able to:
· Discuss ways to overcome institutional barriers to creating a perinatal bereavement program
· Define concepts of grief associated with miscarriage
· Associate healthcare provider attitudes and behaviors to support and promote grief initiation in miscarriage in an ED setting
· Define perinatal palliative care.
· Delineate the services offered by the Emotional Health Phone Support program
· Describe New Jersey’s Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program
· Demonstrate how to provide a remembrance photo for parents suffering the loss of their baby
· Discuss maternal morbidity and mortality statistics
· List three possible causes of maternal death
· Identify components of a critical incident debriefing
· Examine rituals for the family and the staff following maternal death
Disclosures
Neither the speakers nor the planners have a vested interest in the content of this continuing education activity to disclose.
Successful Completion
To receive contact hours for this continuing education program, the registrant must sign in and sign out on the sign in sheet, attend the entire program and complete an on-line evaluation.
Continuing Nursing Education Contact Hours
This program has been awarded 4.5 contact hours.
The Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by NJSNA, an accredited approver, by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Provider # P194-12/13-16. Provider approval is valid through December 31, 2016.
Accreditation refers to the recognition of continuing education activities only and does not imply approval or endorsement of any commercial product.
Social Work
4.5 continuing education hours have been applied for through the Association of Social Work Board for general social work.
Accessibility
This location is handicap accessible. Please let us know if you will need ADA accommodations when you register or call Irina Ventura.
Registration:
General Admission: $35
Partnership Member Hospital Staff: $25
Hackensack UMC at Pascack Valley Staff: $15
Questions?
Contact Irina Ventura at , or 973-268-2280 x 155.
This program is generously supported by a grant from the New Jersey Department of Health