2022 AWHONN Wisconsin Section Conference

Wisconsin AWHONN Section Conference

In-Person

Thursday November 17, 2022

On Wednesday, November 16, 2022, two pre-con sessions are being offered with Becky Cypher, MSN-PNNP, C-EFM, RNC-OB. You can attend one or both sessions.

Fetal Monitoring from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Perinatal Liability from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Pre-Conference Pricing Only – November 16, 2022:

Members – $75 each session
Non-Members – $100 each session
Students – $40 each session

On Thursday, November 17, 2022, will be the General Conference from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm.

The speaker line-up is outstanding and includes:

Madelyn Green speaking on Respectful Maternity Care
Sarah Copple – A Look at Your Vital AWHONN Resources
Becky Cypher – Writing Wrong: Using the CLEAR Concept for Optimal Charting
Nancy Travis – We Provide Compassionate Care: Promoting Primary Vaginal Deliveries
Amber Letsch – Acute Fatty Liver Disease: Perspectives from Provider Turned Patient
Jenny R. Thomas, M.D. – Navigating the First Two Weeks

Cost:

General Conference Only on November 17, 2022:

Members – $125
Non-Members – $150
Students – $50

If you join AWHONN as a new full member for the first time either yearly or monthly from August to November 22 – Free Registration for the one-day conference day (not the pre-conference).

Two Day Cost – Conference and Pre-Conference: November 16 & 17, 2022:

Members – $250
Non-Members – $275
Students -$80

A 10% group discount is offered to those groups of 4 or more from the same facility registering together. *Please contact Keri Meverden at [email protected] if you are registering a group of 4 or more and also to verify new AWHONN Membership.

CONTINUING EDUCATION:

6 contact hours for the general conference on Wednesday, November 17^th.
3.5 contact hours for the Fetal Monitoring pre-conference on Wednesday, November 16th (8:00 am to 12:00 pm)
3.5 contact hours for the Perinatal Liability pre-conference on Wednesday, November 16th (1:00 pm to 5:00 pm)

Bellin Health is an approved provider of continuing nursing professional development by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Bellin Health is the provider of nursing contact hours in a joint provider collaboration with the Association of Women’s Health Obstetrics and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN).

DIAPER DRIVE

Bring a package of diapers for the Healthy Mom & Baby Diaper Drive for a chance to win prize

1 in 3 families don’t have all of the diapers they need to keep their infants clean, dry and healthy. Nurses see health complications of the serious rashes and infection created by leaving wet or soiled diapers on for too long, or by drying out and reusing diapers. The Healthy Mom & Baby Diaper Drive is nurses in hospitals and health facilities throughout the U.S. collecting diapers to give to their most vulnerable patients.

ACCOMMODATIONS

The conference will be held at the Glacier Conference Center at the Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells.

Rooms are available:

Tuesday, November 15
Wednesday, November 16
$109/night Double Queen (up to 4 people per room)
The last day to book at reduced rate is Saturday, October 9th.
Call 1 (800) 867-9453 and mention Group Code: #910132

Location

Glacier Conference Center at the Wilderness Resort
45 Hillman Rd
Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965

Does Respectful Maternity Save Lives? (Virtual)

Pricing:

Members: Free
Non-members: $10

Presenter:

Christine H. Morton, PhD

Research Sociologist, CMQCC | CPQCC

Stanford University School of Medicine

Title:

“Does Respectful Maternity Save Lives?”

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

1300 to 1400 CT

Maternal quality initiatives to help childbirth facilities provide safe, high quality care, are increasingly including the importance and need for respectful care. Everyone involved in maternity care can convey a message of caring, belonging, and competency. Respectful maternity unit cultures provide opportunity for everyone to contribute to a culture of respect and dignity for all, and take pride in providing this approach. Post‐traumatic stress disorder is a common aftermath of childbirth all over the world. It can follow a frightening injury or incident during birth, or physical or emotional mistreatment. People’s perception of disrespectful care varies across the many different cultures but is experienced everywhere. A mother who received respectful care begins parenthood with greater confidence and more rapid healing than one who was treated roughly or experienced complications. The latter may develop postpartum PTSD, which includes sleeplessness, nightmares, anxiety, inability to care for the baby, self, and much more. Parents will likely remember their births their entire lives. One hopes the memory will be cherished as one of the peak experiences of their lives, perhaps very challenging but one in which they felt safe and received dignified, compassionate care. Respectful maternity care can make that happen!

Count the Kicks (Virtual)

Count the Kicks: Using Technology to Kick Off a Healthy Birth

with Megan Aucutt, Program Director Healthy Birth Day, Inc. on March 16, 2022 at 13:00 – 14:00 Central (14:00 to 15:00 Eastern).

Pricing:

- Members: Free
- Non-members: $10

This presentation will offer up-to-date information regarding the evidence-based stillbirth prevention campaign, Count the Kicks. The hallmark tool of the campaign is a free kick counting app. Using a mhealth app to empower mothers to monitor their baby’s fetal movement, preliminary research shows the mHealth app increased awareness of a change in fetal movement, and an associated reduction in stillbirth. This presentation will teach you how easily it can be to integrate Count the Kicks into your workflow as a clinical nurse and to offer it to your patients.

Participants of this webinar will leave knowing:

1. How to have the kick counting conversation with expectant parents.

2. How to download and use the Count the Kicks app.

3. The free tools and resources available and how to best use them.

4. What to say or do if an expectant mom tells them they are experiencing reduced fetal movement.

5. The most frequently asked questions related to kick counting.

6. The powerful stories of what happens when expectant parents learn to kick count and how they can use that knowledge to help decrease the risk of a stillborn.

The conference will be held via Zoom.

Recognizing Maternal Compromise (Virtual)

Recognizing Maternal Compromise

Suzanne McMurtry Baird, DNP, MSN, RN

Clinical Concepts in Obstetrics

AWHONN Board Member

Pricing:

Members: Free
Non-members: $10

Maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States (U.S.) continues to rise despite an emphasis on quality programs to prevent compromise and improve outcomes. Theories suggest the decline in outcomes is associated with chronic disease states, obesity, advanced maternal age, and the increasing number of interventions. Severe morbidity and mortality events are usually preceded by early warning signs of maternal compromise. This lecture will outline 8 practical steps for nurses to identify, assess, and manage early warning signs and symptoms of potential maternal compromise. A case study will highlight care issues that many nurses face when caring for pregnant patients.

Undiagnosed Placenta Acreta with Bree Fallon (Virtual)

Pricing:

- Members: Free
- Non-members: $10

This presentation is a case study of a patient with an undiagnosed invasive placenta. Interdisciplinary simulations, competencies, and screening algorithms put in place in anticipation of a massive hemorrhage contributed to the outcome of this patient. This presentation is meant to bring a better understanding of the placenta acreta spectrum, interventions to stabilize a hemodynamically unstable patient, and steps to coordinate unit preparedness for a massive hemorrhage on any obstetric unit.

AWHONN Wisconsin – Every Change Matters: Developmental Diapering

Nancy Travis, MS, BSN, IBCLC, Ped-BC, CPN

Director, Women and Neonatal Services

Lee Health

Cape Coral, FL

AWHONN FL Section Chair

Pricing
Free for members and students
$10 for non-members

Both the childbirth educator and the perinatal/mother-infant nurse have important roles to enhance the confidence of parents caring for their newborns. An important aspect of care for new parents is the awareness and promotion of newborn skin health. This is aided by developmental diapering techniques. Incorporating the importance of evidence-based care into well-newborn discharge education is imperative.

This standardized approach to teaching both staff and parents is eye opening to diaper changing. Often thought of as a simple task (“Who doesn’t know how to change a diaper?”) developmental diaper changing incorporates five “C’s” of diapering: Clean and Calm, Change and Check, Comfort, Champion Sleep, and Confidence and Closeness. The presenter will discuss each of these aspects of diapering. Each of these diapering aspects assists with attachment, involving the extended family in the care of the newborn, and describes ways to connect and bond with the newborn.

This presentation offers a just-in-time, simulation-based course providing hands-on developmental diapering instruction. Its focus is on both the education of patients for the transition to home as well as on continued professional development of the nursing staff. It is beneficial for a nurse in any role that involves caring for newborns.

Zoom Link will be sent a few days before webinar to participants.

AWHONN Wisconsin – We Can Change This: The Nurse’s Role in Maternal Mortality

Join 2012 AWHONN President, Rose Horton, in discovering the perinatal nurse’s role in looking at maternal mortality and implementing changes to decrease both morbidity and mortality. An astounding 700 women die every year from pregnancy-related causes. Data from the CDC reveals that 60% of these deaths are preventable. Perinatal nurses have the opportunity to mitigate mortality rates by a) embracing changes such as putting into practice evidence-based nursing care, b) implementing standardized perinatal care, and c) providing respectful care. This presentation will be a call-to-action. At the end of this educational offering, all attendees will say “#notonmywatch.”

Rose Horton, MSM, BSN, NEA-CC

Executive Director, Women and Infant

Emory Decatur Hospital – Atlanta, GA

Pricing:

- AWHONN non-member – $10.00
- AWHONN member – full/retired/e-subscription: Free
- Student – Free

2021 AWHONN Wisconsin Virtual Mini Conference (Virtual)

Fetal Morse Code: A Systematic Approach To Basic and Advanced Fetal Monitoring (Virtual Event)

SPEAKER:

Rebecca Cypher, MSN-PNNP, RN, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM

2020 AWHONN President

Cypher Maternal Fetal Solutions, LLC, Gig Harbor, WA

PURPOSE:

Whether you are new to obstetrics, an experienced clinician, or someone seeking a certification review course, this comprehensive workshop will focus on the primary elements of fetal monitoring. During this session, we will examine maternal-fetal physiology and use a standardized approach to interpretation, targeted corrective measures, and management principles that are evidence based and reflect consensus in the literature. Case studies and interactive self-assessment questions will be used to measure comprehension and demonstrate how ongoing education can improve knowledge and judgment in performing fetal monitoring.

COST:

$50 AWHONN Member

$55 AWHONN E-Member

$60 Non-Member

$25 Students

FREE registration: join AWHONN as a full member for the 1^st time from August to November 2021.

- Email [email protected] so that new AWHONN membership can be verified

CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY: OBIX Perinatal Data System

AWHONN Wisconsin (Virtual) – Sudden Newborn Collapsed

Sudden Newborn Collapse

Kristi Gabel, MN, CNS, RNC-OB, C-EFM, CPLC, C-ONQS

Sutter Health System, Roseville, CA

Keeping moms and babies together is an ultimate goal of postpartum care. This promotes education, observation, and role modeling of caring for the newborn and enhancing breast feeding. Skin-to-skin is a primary way of promoting both breastfeeding and infant comfort. However, it may have drawbacks. Observation is key to preventing sudden newborn collapse. While NRP teaches resuscitation skills in the newly born, it isn’t a program that was developed for resuscitation of older infants. A didactic/clinical education program was developed by Sutter Hospital-Roseville to enhance the skills of the postpartum staff. This hour- long program will review definitions, risk factors, and steps taken to educate staff with both didactic content and with simulation training.

AWHONN Wisconsin (Virtual) – The Secret Language of the Nursing Interview

The Secret Language of the Nursing Interview

Maureen Dempsey, BSN, BA, RNC-OB, C-EFM

Author, OB Risk Case Manager

Baton Rouge, LA

Cost: Free!

Is it okay to wear scrubs to an interview? What is the right answer to the dreaded question, “What is your greatest weakness?” Do people still send thank you cards following the interview? What should I ask when the interviewer(s) ask, “Do you have any questions?” In this competitive market for new grad programs, educator positions, charge nurse or project manager, how can YOU have the edge? Nurse and author, Maureen Dempsey will share with you the secrets of preparation and becoming the most prepared candidate for the position you want. This information will also assist you if you are applying for an advanced degree program.