NRP Update Session -- October 6

12 slots available

Registration starts at 7:30 a.m.

All food will be on your own

 Topics to Include:

Discuss issues of patient safety and error reduction in the delivery

of nursing and medical infant care.

Identify infants at increased risk for becoming hypothermic.

Summarize basic evaluation of neonatal respiratory distress.

Discuss the causes, presentation and initial treatment of hypovolemic, cardiogenic, and septic shock.

Describe the clinical signs of neonatal sepsis.

Discuss the crisis that families face when the infant requires care in a neonatal intensive care unit.

You may find it helpful to have a STABLE Program Learner Manual with you during this class.

You may borrow a copy from your facility or purchase one from www.stableprogram.org

Perinatal Outreach Presents:

Advanced Fetal Monitoring

8:00 a.m. to 4:00pm

MaineGeneral Medical Center

Augusta, Maine

Upon completion of this program participant will be able to:

• State the terms and definitions of fetal heart rate patterns as per the National Institutes of Health Consensus Group document.
• Recognize recurrent late decelerations, recurrent severe variable decelerations, and the sinusoidal heart rate pattern.
• Correlate critical fetal heart rate patterns with related maternal fetal physiology.
• List appropriate interventions based on interpretation pattern.