H2 - Characterizing, Discovering, and Intervening in Maternal Death: Nurse Leadership in Maternal Mortality Surveillance

Title: H2 - Characterizing, Discovering, and Intervening in Maternal Death: Nurse Leadership in Maternal Mortality Surveillance

Disciplines: Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  • • Describe the maternal mortality review action cycle
  • • Identify leaders and resources in your state related to maternal mortality review and translation activities
  • • Communicate personal and professional assets that can contribute to the maternal mortality review process

  • Submission Description:
    Maternal death reviews serve a critical function of characterizing and discovering the factors contributing to maternal deaths to inform action and prevent similar tragic events. This session will feature a panel of nurse leaders that will describe their instrumental role shaping the review process at multiple levels, and demonstrate to participants how they can expand their involvement in (or potentially, to build) maternal mortality reviews in their respective states.
    Wednesday, June 17, 2015: 8:15 AM-9:45 AM
    Grand Ballroom 2 (Long Beach Convention Center)
    Moderator:
    Barbara Tewell, BSN, MSN, RNC
    Presenting Authors:
    Deborah L. Burch, MSN, RN , Margaret-Rose Agostino, DNP, MSW, RN-BC, CNE, IBCLC and Andria Cornell, MSPH
    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.