A3 - Improving Care for Opioid-Dependent Pregnant Women and Their Newborns
Disciplines: Women’s Health (WH), Newborn Care (NB), Childbearing (CB), Advanced Practice (AP)
Learning Objectives:
- State methods for managing opioid-addicted women during pregnancy and the post-partum period.
- Give examples of therapuetic interventions used to manage neonatal opioid withdrawal including out-patient management of newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
- Discuss clinical outcomes for opioid-exposed newborns.
This session will provide information to improve opioid management for pregnant women and their infants by sharing information about Vermont's unique program. Opioid-dependent pregnant women are screened and treated in a collaborative approach by high-risk obstetrics, neonatology follow-up, and addiction medicine. Ten years of experience with an emphasis on out-patient management of newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome will be presented.
Monday, June 27, 2011: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
503-504 (Colorado Convention Center)
Moderator:
Maureen Shogan, MN, RNC
Presenting Authors:
Jerilyn Metayer, BSN, RN
and
Anne M. Johnston, MD
