CNE activities

Laura Miller, CPXP
This session highlights the challenges healthcare providers encounter while supporting families in distress and helps participants identify ways to maintain a healthy, professional quality of life.
Learning Objectives:
1.Identify barriers to developing a healthy, professional quality of life in the NICU
2. Describe the individual and institutional responsibility for maintaining a healthy, professional quality of life in the NICU
3. Identify symptoms of professional burnout and fatigue
4. Explore wellness strategies to combat burnout and fatigue
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Laura Miller, CPXP
This session explores challenges faced by families during their complex NICU stay and as they begin to transition to home with an equipment-dependent infant. This session shares best-practice strategies focused on discharge education, teaching tools, community resource guides and at-home support.
Learning Objectives:
-Describe the parent’s perspective as they begin the transition to home process with a child who has medical complexities
-Describe educational and information tools which staff can use to prepare families transitioning home
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Laura Miller, CPXP
This session identifies diversity in the workplace and explores inherent biases within all of us; examining how bias influences the workplace environment. The session focuses on improving our cultural competencies in order to provide a non-judgmental and supportive culture in the unit.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the increasing diversity in the United States
2. Define explicit and implicit bias, and describe their impact on neonatal outcomes
3. Explore strategies to create a respectful NICU environment


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Presenter: Heather Reimer, MSW, CPXP
This session addresses the critical ways frontline staff can engage families in the NICU, to provide support to families showing signs of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders or post-traumatic stress syndrome. This session will focus on understanding the effects of chronic stress, including oppression and racism, and will provide strategies to support families during their NICU stay and as they transition to home.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify pre-existing stress factors for NICU parents?
2. Describe the physiologic effects of chronic stress?
3. Identify how stress, anxiety and depression interfere with parent-infant interactions?
4. Discuss strategies to support a family in crisis during and beyond their NICU stay

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Presented by: Laura Miller, CPXP
This session provides an in depth look at infant loss in the NICU, and includes videos of parents, sharing their stories and memories of their bereavement experiences in the NICU. This session highlights specific strategies for NICU staff self-care and resiliency.
Learning objectives:
1. Describe common characteristics of grief exhibited by parents and families in the NICU
2. Describe ways NICU staff can provide care and support to parents during a loss
3. Identify strategies to implement self-care for the NICU staff after a neonatal death

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Presented by: Kimberly Paap, Manager of Product Development, NICU Innovation, March of Dimes
This session addresses the vital importance of how we communicate and educate NICU parents in a meaningful way, while making a lasting, positive impression of their NICU experience. This session will highlight specific educational tools and tips that you can incorporate into your own practice.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify ways in which parent education relates to patient experience
2. Describe effective education techniques that help empower families to care for their baby
3. Identify solutions to common barriers to learning.
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Presented by: Adrienne Griffen, Executive Director, Matneral Mental Health Leadership Alliance
This course will provide a complete and thorough overview of mental health (MMH) disorders that affect women during pregnancy and first year following pregnancy, focusing primarily on anxiety and depression. These illnesses are the most common complication of pregnancy and childbirth, affecting 1 in 5 women.
Topics covered in this course include:
Overview of maternal mental health disorders
-Impact of these illnesses on mother, baby, and family
-Treatment options -Educating women about and screening them for these illnesses
-Additional resources and educational opportunities

Learning Outcomes
-Demonstrate knowledge about the range of maternal mental health disorders
-Implement education and screening for maternal mental health disorders in their clinical practice
-Provide women experiencing maternal mental health disorders with information about options for treatment and resources for recovery

Learning Objectives:
-Describe the impact of maternal mental health disorders on mother, baby, family
-Identify risk factors, signs, and symptoms for maternal mental health disorders
-Develop strategies for increased screening in the perinatal period
-Identify culturally and linguistically appropriate educational materialsIdentify resources for women experiencing maternal mental health disorders

Neither the presenter nor any member of the planning committee for this activity has any financial, professional or personal relationships that could potentially bias the content.

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Presented by: Jessamyn Ressler-Maerlender, MPH, CPXP
This session provides an in depth look at various approaches to caring for families and babies exposed to opioids, and the ways in which staff can promote good outcomes beyond the NICU stay. This session will highlight a number of hospitals across the United States with exceptional programming and outcomes for their patients with NAS, and provide information on how to replicate those strategies into your own NICU.
Learning objectives:
1. Explore new models of care for infants suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
2. Compare and contrast these new approaches with the traditional care provided to these infants
3. Identify specific strategies for supporting the opioid exposed mother and baby during the hospital experience and beyond
4. Repudiate common myths with facts about opioid addiction and recovery
5. Discuss incorporating new approaches into your own practice, unit and institution


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Laura Miller, CPXP
This session invites participants to analyze statements in the NICU with respect to intent, impact and overall effectiveness for communication. This session explores the many various forms of communication, including body language, unit and navigational signage, printed materials, and the spoken word.
Learning Objectives:
1. Explain the difference between intent and impact in their verbal and non-verbal communications with NICU families
2. Identify supportive, alternative word choices to common statements said in the NICU
3. Describe three principles for communicating effectively with NICU families

Neither the author nor any member of the planning committee for this activity has any financial, professional or personal relationships that could potentially bias the content.

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Laura Miller, CPXP
This session begins with a film about a baby who acquired a central line infection in the NICU, and documents the family’s goal of eliminating this adverse outcome. This session focuses on the importance of infection control measures and examines how families can be powerful partners in change.
Learning Objectives:
-Explain the critical importance of handwashing in the NICU
-Identify three ways to engage parents as full partners in NICU safety
Describe how a collaborative work environment can impact patient safety in the NICU

Neither the author nor any member of the planning committee for this activity has any financial, professional or personal relationships that could potentially bias the content.

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Laura Miller, CPXP, Managing Consultant, NICU Innovation, March of Dimes

Provides insight into the emotional experience of the shorter-stay family, and includes surprising data on the average length of a NICU stay. Guidance will be offered on how to best support these families in preparation for taking care of their child at home.

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify common diagnoses associated with shorter-stay infants
2. Describe three common perceptions / experiences reported by families of shorter stay families in the NICU.
3. Discuss at least three strategies to support shorter-stay families

Neither the author nor any member of the planning committee for this activity has any financial, professional or personal relationships that could potentially bias the content.
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Laura Miller
Christina Lloyd, RN, MS
This session provides a comprehensive look at the current literature, including evidence-based benefits to both baby and parent, and long-term effects of the practice. This session is a valuable starter course for a new nurse, as well as a good refresher course for the experienced NICU nurse.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss the benefits of skin to skin care for newborns, their parents and the NICU staff
Articulate strategies to promote skin to skin holding to families and to your peers in the NICU
Neither the authors nor any member of the planning committee for this activity has any financial, professional or personal relationships that could potentially bias the content.
  
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Laura Miller, CPXP
This webinar highlights how communication, or miscommunication, impacts everyone and everything in the workplace. We'll discover the needs and differences of a multigenerational staff and examine how to communicate effectively through technology and social media.
Objectives:
Describe characteristics of Baby Boomers, Gen Y, Gen X, and Gen Z and how these characteristics influence communication styles and preferences.
Identify professional standards for communicating on social media
Discuss opportunities that social media can provide for families of NICU babies
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Sascha James-Conterelli DNP, CNM, FACNM U
Unpacking Implicit Bias in Maternity Care frames the manner in which providers care for clients and families. It highlights how Providers’ implicit and explicit bias can result in negative health outcomes. This is a recording of a live presentation.
Learning Objectives
-Describe some initial steps to address the issues of implicit and explicit bias.
-Obtain a basic understanding of implicit and explicit bias as it relates to maternal mortality.
-Understand the need for systemic change to decrease maternal mortality.)
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