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H6A - Setting Body Mass Index Criteria for Obese Obstetric Patients to Reduce Nurse Injury and Improve Patient Safety

Wednesday, June 17, 2015 : 8:15 AM

Title: H6A - Setting Body Mass Index Criteria for Obese Obstetric Patients to Reduce Nurse Injury and Improve Patient Safety

Room 103 (Long Beach Convention Center)
Raquel Kelly Walker, MSN, RNC-MNN, RN-BC , Women's Services, Roper St. Francis Healthcare, Charleston, SC
Virginia Ballentine, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM , Women's Services, Roper St. Francis Healthcare, Charelston, SC

Discipline: Childbearing (CB)

Learning Objectives:
  • 1. Discuss the growing rate of obesity in the perinatal population.
  • 2. Identify the quality and patient safety implications for anesthesia and cesarean section for morbidly obese pregnant patients.
  • 3. Review strategies to reduce nurse injury and improve patient safety.

    • Submission Description:
    More than one third of women in the United States are obese especially in women of child-bearing age. Obesity poses many health risks for mom and baby, but also for nursing staff caring for them during labor or cesarean delivery. The session will review strategies implemented by the Roper St. Francis Healthcare’s Perinatal Quality and Patient Safety Collaborative to reduce nurse injury and improve patient safety.

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    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.