Implementation of a ‘Grab & Go' OB Emergency Response Bag in the Post Partum Setting

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Implementation of a ‘Grab & Go' OB Emergency Response Bag in the Post Partum Setting

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Cathy M Gilson, MHA, BSN, RNC-OB , Nursing Obstetrics, South Shore Hospital, So Weymouth, MA
Beverly Ferreira, Associates Degree in Nursing , Nursing Obstetrics, South Shore Hospital, South Weymouth, MA
Marjorie A Tose, RN BSN , Nursing Obstetrics, South Shore Hospital, So Weymouth, MA

Discipline: Childbearing (CB)

Learning Objectives:
  • Identify the challenges in responding to obstetrical emergencies on the postpartum unit
  • Formlate a method to improve response to obstetrical emergency
  • Describe a coordinated standardized approach to PPH

  • Submission Description:
    The purpose of this clinical practice presentation is to describe the successful development and implementation of an emergency response kit to providing standardized care to the Post Partum Hemorrhage (PPH) patient on the Post Partum unit.

    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.