NE3 - Perinatal Safety and Quality: Current Issues and Future Concerns

Title: NE3 - Perinatal Safety and Quality: Current Issues and Future Concerns

Disciplines: Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N), Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  1. List some of the most compelling issues facing clinicians and administrators today regarding perinatal patient safety and quality
  2. Develop strategies to minimize risk of harm to mothers and babies
  3. Review predictions for future concerns regarding perinatal safety and quality
Submission Description:
There are many competing dynamics in the quest to promote perinatal safety and avoid preventable harm. Overextended clinicians and administrators face shrinking resources as they do their best to create a clinical environment that supports optimal outcomes. This session will highlight key safety and quality issues that influence inpatient perinatal care today and in the future.
Sunday, June 15, 2014: 3:30 PM-4:45 PM
Coronado K & L (Disney Coronado Springs)
Presenting Author:
Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN
Moderator:
Mimi Pomerleau, DNP
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.