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

September 7, 2018

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

8:00 – 9:30 a.m.        Maternal & Fetal Physiology & Control of Fetal Heart Rate

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.     Standards of Care

10:00 – 10:15 a.m.    Break

10:15 – 11:00 a.m.    Use of Technology

11:00 – 11:45 a.m.    Uterine Activity & Terminology

11:45 – 12:30 p.m.    Lunch

12:30 – 2:00 p.m.      Pattern Interpretation, Terminology, Nursing Interventions

2:00 – 2:15 p.m.      Break

2:15–   3:15 p.m.     Pattern Interpretation, (Continued)

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.      Communication

3:45 – 4:00 p.m.      Wrap-up & Evaluation

 Upon completion of this program participant will be able to:

• Review the basics of fetal oxygenation.
• State the Standard of Care regarding assessment of intrapartal fetal status.
• Define baseline, variability, acceleration, decelerations, and reactivity.
• List appropriate interventions based on pattern interpretation                          

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.

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

Registration starts at 7:30 a.m.

Refreshments and Lunch 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