The Power of the Circle: Initiation of Group Prenatal Care in the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: The Power of the Circle: Initiation of Group Prenatal Care in the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Lisa Kugler, CNM, MSN, BSN, BS , The Special Delivery Unit, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Mari-Carmen Farmer, BSN, RNC-OB, BS , The Special Delivery Unit, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • Demonstrate basic understanding of group prenatal care and traditional prenatal care
  • Identify the benefits of group prenatal care.
  • Review challenges of group prenatal care in a high risk setting.

  • Submission Description:
    The Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment is a unique, referral-based program for women whose pregnancies are complicated by a prenatally diagnosed fetal anomaly. Group prenatal care at the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment is an innovative approach to care delivery that integrates the three major components of care: health assessment, education and support. This evidence-based intervention, co- facilitated by a Certified Nurse Midwife and Registered Nurse, is being implemented to improve perinatal outcomes.

    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.