PC9 - Critical Care Obstetrics

Title: PC9 - Critical Care Obstetrics

Disciplines: Childbearing (CB)

Learning Objectives:
  • Review current issues related to care and management of the critically ill obstetric patient including staff education, skill validation and simulation
  • List the most common medical diagnosis that either cause or result in critically ill obstetric patients
  • Discuss issues related to communication and collaboration between healthcare service teams and agencies when a mother becomes critically ill during pregnancy, birth or postpartum

    • Submission Description:
    Critical care obstetrics is now a subspecialty of both medicine and nursing, with its own unique accompanying body of knowledge and clinical practice issues. This presentation will provide an overview of essential concepts and current issues related to critical care obstetric nursing. Emphasis will be placed on a collaborative model of care and the role of the OB nurse. In addition, this course will provide information on the most common diagnoses and pathophysiology in women who become critically ill during pregnancy. Case examples will be presented to illustrate application of critical care concepts to clinical nursing practice. Finally, education, simulation, and strategies to prepare for care of critically ill pregnant women will be discussed.
    Sunday, June 14, 2015: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
    Room 103 (Long Beach Convention Center)
    Presenting Author:
    Suzanne McMurtry Baird, DNP, RN
    Moderator:
    Jeffrey S. Fouche, MSN, APRN, RNC-OB, WHNP-BC, C-EFM
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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.