Please Join Us for a Continuing Nursing Education Program

Please join us for a Continuing Nursing Education program:

Safeguarding Moms’ and Babies’ Health: The Meaning of Screening

Provided by

The Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey

Tuesday, October 6th, 2015 from 8:30am – 3:15pm

Bayberry Room, HackensackUMC Mountainside

One Bay Avenue, Glen Ridge, NJ 07028

Conference Goal

The purpose of this continuing nursing education program is to enable the learner to enhance evidence based information sharing and practice by presenting updates on the latest screening tools available for use during preconception and pregnancy as well as the child’s first year of life.

Presenters

Jonathan O’Brien, MD

Perinatologist, New Jersey Perinatal Associates

Jan Huston, MD

Medical Director, The Breast Center at Hackensack University Medical Center Mountainside

Ellen Maughan, JD, IBCLC

Lactation Consultant, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC

Lactation Consultant, University Pediatric Associates, Highland Park, NJ

Private practice

Thomas Hegyi, MD

Director, Neonatal- Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program

Professor and Vice-Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Barbara Ostfeld, PhD

Professor, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Pediatrics
Program Director, SIDS Center of New Jersey

Patricia Lucarelli, RN-BC, MSN, CPNP, APN, PMHS

Nurse Practitioner Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Booker Family Health Center

Adjunct Professor, Monmouth University – Unterberg School of Nursing

Target Audience

Perinatal and pediatric nurses and advance practice nurses

Objectives

As a result of attending this continuing nursing education program, participants will be able to:

·  Describe the goals of preconception screening and care

·  List five common medical or genetic conditions amenable to preconception

·  Describe evidence-based screening for women at normal risk and higher levels of risk during the childbearing years

·  Discuss specific screening recommended during pregnancy and lactation

·  Describe the serious complications of hyperbilirubinemia: kernicterus

·  Outline the natural history, clinical manifestations and treatment for neonatal jaundice

·  Discuss the new screening procedures and management of infants at greater risk for neonatal jaundice

·  Identify three functional factors that may indicate that an infant has a tongue tie

·  Describe the current status of NJ tongue-tie screening legislation

·  Explain the newest guidelines and findings on evidence based methods for preventing SIDS and other sleep related infant deaths

·  Describe how to screen and remediate caregivers, healthcare providers and hospital and child care institutions regarding current knowledge, practices and policies on safe infant sleep

·  Discuss the impact of parent education by nurses and other healthcare providers on New Jersey’s rates of sudden unexpected infant deaths

·  Review current recommendations for developmental screenings of infants and toddlers

·  Discuss the components of assessment and identification of developmental delays in infants and toddlers

·  Identify interventions for infants and toddlers who present with possible delays

·  List two essential characteristics of effectively communicating with parents regarding
possible developmental delays

Continuing Nursing Education Contact Hours

This program has been awarded5.75contact hours.

The Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern NewJerseyis an approved provider of continuing nursing education by New Jersey State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Please note: Accredited status does not imply endorsement by NJSNA, The Partnershipfor Maternal Child Health of Northern New Jersey or ANCC of any commercial products or services.

Disclosures

Noneof the planners, speakers or facilitators has any vested interest in thecontent of this continuing nursing education program to disclose. They have no financial relationship to any products being discussed.

Successful completion

To receive contact hours for this CNE program, the registrant must sign in on the sign-in sheet, attend the entire program and complete and submit the program evaluation form.

Registration

Registration fee:

HackensackUMC Mountainside staff: $25

Partnership member hospital staff: $35

Other: $45

Registration deadline: 9/27/15

Registration is on-line at http://partnershipmch.org/professional-education/

Refunds are not possible. However, if the registrant is unable to attend, another colleague may substitute.

Questions?

Contact Amy Gole at or 973-268-2280 x100