GS3 - Working Together To Improve The Health Of Women and Newborns - Crucial Communications In Perinatal Care

Title: GS3 - Working Together To Improve The Health Of Women and Newborns - Crucial Communications In Perinatal Care

Disciplines: Advanced Practice (AP), Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N), Professional Issues (PI), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  1. Discuss selected interprofessional research findings about how communication among caregivers may improve or jeopardize perinatal patient safety.
  2. Characterize the value of collaboration among nursing, physician and midwifery, and health policy organizations.
  3. Explain implications to perinatal safety of inter-professional collaboration among those who care for women and newborns.
Submission Description:
A panel composed of leaders from AWHONN’s collaborative partners will discuss their work surrounding communication among caregivers and its impact on patient safety. The panel will include representatives from organizations who have been actively involved in the research study, Crucial Conversations Among Caregivers during Labor and Delivery. This study represents continued positive movement towards increased collaboration among the professional organizations involved in the care of women and newborns.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013: 8:00 AM-9:15 AM
Ryman Hall C2 (Gaylord Opryland)
Moderator:
Suzanne L. Ketchem, MSN, RNC-OB, CNS
Presenting Authors:
Catherine Ivory, PhD, RNC-OB , Audrey Lyndon, PhD, RNC, FAAN , Frances E. Likis, DrPH, NP, CNM, FACNM and Daniel O'Keeffe, MD