Speaker: Louise Jakubik, CEO of Nurse builders
How to Turn Your Obstetric-Neonatal Nursing Expertise into a Winning Side Hustle – 10 Actionable Approaches Nurses are ideally positioned and equipped to start a side hustle. Explore how to leverage your nursing expertise to create a side hustle that advances obstetric-neonatal health and healthcare while generating income to support your lifestyle. In this session, we will explore 10 different ways obstetric-neonatal nurses can translate their expertise into a side hustle to make impact and income.
Speakers: Annie Craig, MSN, RN, RNC-NIC, Lori Gabriel Gunther, MS, CPXP, Bobbie J. Smith, MSN, NEA-BC, ANLC-P, Cyndy Krening, MS, RNC-OB, C-EFM, FAWHONN
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by all the to-dos you have to complete as a leader? Are you looking for an opportunity to attend a learning session with other people who have leadership positions to strategize, learn and feel empowered? This 8 hour pre-conference session led by operational and leadership experts will explore strengths-based leadership tactics and strategies focused on championing operational changes on units.
Speakers: Trisha Short and Misha Severson
Join us for a comprehensive TeamBirth Masterclass, designed to delve into evidence-based strategies for enhancing teamwork, communication, and patient-centered care in birthing and postpartum units. Participants will gain hands-on experience with practical tools and techniques that have been successfully implemented in hospitals across the country to improve maternal outcomes and experiences.
Speaker: Jennifer Atkisson, MSN, RNC-OB, CNL
This 4 hour workshop will examine the effectiveness and value of fetal monitoring in today’s clinical settings and challenge the stories that hold us back from getting the most utility out of this tool. Gain insights into its role in improving patient outcomes (including common errors that lead to lawsuits), simplify Category II tracing management and apply physiologic knowledge to manage the scenarios that challenge us at the bedside. We’ll work through lots of real case studies and even a fetal monitoring escape room!
Speakers: Susan Hale and OPS instructors
The OPS: OB Emergencies Workshop is designed to help clinicians identify, assess, and manage the care for patients with an obstetric emergency through simulation and debriefing. The team activities help to strengthen teamwork and communication.
Speakers: Adam Snyder, Lisa Miller, Suzanne McMurtry Baird, Stephanie Martin, Dennis Ruth
The perinatal nurse faces a high risk of involvement in a malpractice suit. The number of cases alleging malpractice in obstetrics may be the result of several factors, including expectations for a “perfect” birth and newborn, accidents, errors in judgment, preventability of maternal injury or death, and increased accountability. This interactive mock trial will provide an interprofessional perspective on general areas of perinatal nursing liability, demonstrate the components of malpractice, and discuss strategies to avoid malpractice claims.
Join us for the Student Symposium during the AWHONN pre-convention day, where nursing students or new nurses within their first 6 months of practice can ignite their passion for this specialty. The agenda will cover topics pertaining to women’s health, obstetric, and neonatal nursing and allow ample time to engage in 10 hands-on skills stations to learn and practice fundamental skills. We will also offer a unique opportunity to network with local nursing leaders and explore job opportunities in the field
Speaker: Amy Wren and Nancy Prothero
General overview of Perinatal Mental Health and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs). Identifying symptoms and screening of PMADS. Evidence based up-to-date clinical “pearls” to utilize in Obstetric, Women’s and Neonatal Health Care.
