SS14 - Leadership Summit on Perinatal Quality and Safety

Title: SS14 - Leadership Summit on Perinatal Quality and Safety

Disciplines: Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  1. Discuss the development of perinatal nurse-sensitive measures and how they can be used to link nursing practice to outcomes improvement.
  2. Describe how to mobilize and coordinate perinatal teams in complex environments through implementing effective communication principles and innovative approaches to collaborative care.
  3. Describe successful implementation of evidence-based perinatal care practices.
Submission Description:
During the Leadership Summit on Perinatal Quality and Safety you will learn how to optimize perinatal quality and safety through: • Linking measures of quality nursing care to outcomes on your unit and improving outcomes with this knowledge • Effective communication and collaboration with ALL team members who influence perinatal care. • Standardization and implementation of evidence-based practice • Improved strategies for implementing and tracking quality measurement Hear from perinatal nurse leaders who are known innovators and researchers in the perinatal quality arena. Find out the latest updates on AWHONN’s development of perinatal nurse-sensitive measures and AWHONN’s ongoing research linking nursing care and staffing to outcomes. Brainstorm strategies that can work in your setting through networking with your nurse leader colleagues who are at women’s sides, improving care from the birth room to the boardroom.
Saturday, June 14, 2014: 8:00 AM-3:45 PM
Fiesta 6 (Disney Coronado Springs)
Presenting Authors:
Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN , Audrey Lyndon, PhD, RNC, FAAN and Mary Campbell Bliss, RN, MS, CNS
The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.