May 23, 2018

MaineGeneral Medical Center, Augusta -- 9:00am-2:30pm

AGENDA

8:30am-9:00am

Registration

Breakfast on your own

9:00am-9:15am

Welcome

Dawn Littlefield-Gordon, BS, TTS-C

9:15am-10:30am

Successful Strategies to Achieving Step 2: Staff Education

Panel Facilitated by:  Kara Kaikini, MS, IBCLC – MMC

Sarah Hand, RN, BSN, IBCLC, CCE - EMMC

Amanda Henderson, MSN, RN, IBCLC, CCE - EMMC

Connie Finley, IBCLC - Inland

10:30am-10:45am

Break

10:45am-12:00pm

Successful Strategies to Achieving Step 6: Use of Formula

“Give infants only breastmilk, unless medically indicated”

Jennifer Johnson, RNC, BSN, CLC, CNIII - MMC

Lindsay Toppen, RN, BSN, IBCLC - SMHC

12:00pm-12:45pm

Healthy Box Lunch Provided

Provided by:  Let’s Go!  A program of the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center

12:45pm-1:45pm

Successful Strategies to Achieving Step 7 “Practice 24 – hour “rooming in” to allow mothers and infants unlimited access to each other”

Facilitated by:  Kara Kaikini, MS, IBCLC - MMC

Kelley Bowden, MS, RN - MMC

Kathleen Cyr, BSN, RN – MMC

1:45pm-2:15pm

Celebration and Goal Setting for 2018/2019

2:15pm – 2:30pm

Evaluation and Wrap Up

2:30 pm

Adjourn

Learning Outcome

Hospital based Breastfeeding leaders will gain knowledge needed to achieve full implementation of six of the WHO/UNICEF Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding at their facility.

Program Objectives

• Identify safety components for selected Steps.
• Critique own hospital policies and identify any gaps between current policy and model policies.
• Assess rooming-in at your facility and discuss strategies for sustaining and/or improving your data.
• Compare and contrast options for health care team breastfeeding education.
• Understand national and state data points and resources available for each of the three selected steps.

Accreditation

Maine Medical Center Department of Nursing is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

4.25 Contact Hours

Fees

There is no fee for this conference. 

Registration Deadline:  May 16, 2018

Location

MaineGeneral

35 Medical Center Parkway

Augusta, ME  04330

Location details will be provided with confirmation letter.

Perinatal Outreach Presents

June 6, 2018

8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Central Maine Medical Center

300 Main Street

Lewiston, ME  04240

Conference Room H

• 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.

Perinatal Outreach Presents

September 13, 2018

8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Houlton Regional Hospital

20 Hartford Street

Houlton, ME  04730

FA Peabody Room

• 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.

There is a cafeteria available for lunch.  Registration deadline is August 31, 2018.  If you should have any questions, please contact – ktaylor@mmc.org or call 207-662-2696.

6.7 Contact Hours

Perinatal Outreach Presents

September 14, 2018

8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Northern Maine Medical Center

194 E Main Street

Fort Kent, ME  047430

• 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.

There is a cafeteria available for lunch.  Registration deadline is August 31, 2018.  If you should have any questions, please contact – ktaylor@mmc.org or call 207-662-2696.

6.7 Contact Hours

This course is designed for nurses who will be inserting peripheral intravenous catheters in newborn and pediatric patients. Intended for nurses for whom this is a new skill, nurses without previous formal training or interested in a refresher are also welcome to attend. This class does not substitute for attendance at “Vascular Access Matters,” for nurses required to attend that educational program.

Learning Outcome: Gain knowledge and practice skills related to the insertion, care, and maintenance of pediatric intravenous catheters.

Content Includes:

• Site selection
• Age-specific considerations
• Assessment
• IV solutions
• Complications
• Hands-on practice

Maine Medical Center Department of Nursing is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours: 2.0

If you have any questions about registration, please call Kathy Taylor at 662-2696 or e-mail ktaylor@mmc.org.

This course is designed for nurses who will be inserting peripheral intravenous catheters in newborn and pediatric patients. Intended for nurses for whom this is a new skill, nurses without previous formal training or interested in a refresher are also welcome to attend. This class does not substitute for attendance at “Vascular Access Matters,” for nurses required to attend that educational program.

Learning Outcome: Gain knowledge and practice skills related to the insertion, care, and maintenance of pediatric intravenous catheters.

Content Includes:

• Site selection
• Age-specific considerations
• Assessment
• IV solutions
• Complications
• Hands-on practice

Maine Medical Center Department of Nursing is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours: 2.0

If you have any questions about registration, please call Kathy Taylor at 662-2696 or e-mail ktaylor@mmc.org.

June 11, 2018 9-11am

This course is designed for nurses who will be inserting peripheral intravenous catheters in newborn and pediatric patients. Intended for nurses for whom this is a new skill, nurses without previous formal training or interested in a refresher are also welcome to attend. This class does not substitute for attendance at “Vascular Access Matters,” for nurses required to attend that educational program.

Learning Outcome: Gain knowledge and practice skills related to the insertion, care, and maintenance of pediatric intravenous catheters.

Content includes:

• Site selection
• Age-specific considerations
• Assessment
• IV solutions
• Complications
• Hands-on practice

Maine Medical Center Department of Nursing is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours:  2.0

Tuesday, August 21th,  2018

Maine Medical Center

22 Bramhall Street

Portland, ME  04102

East Tower 2 & 3

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Instructor: 

Angie Rojecki, RNC-NIC

25 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 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