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

Registration is per person.

Expectant first-time parents can learn about common newborn needs and behaviors and how to prepare for bringing baby home. This class includes information about feeding, how to bathe and swaddle your new baby, safe sleep, caring for and calming a newborn, ways to make sure your baby is safe at home, in the car, and in an emergency, and tips on how to make this newborn period an easier transition for you.

Class Testimonials:

"Class was a wealth of knowledge in a reasonable amount of time."

"Straight forward, simple to understand and well presented."

"Good reminders on a lot of different aspects of caring for an infant."

 Please note: Between May 7 and June 29, there will be a traffic detour due to new construction. Please click here for directions.

Registration is per person.

Expectant first-time parents can learn about common newborn needs and behaviors and how to prepare for bringing baby home. This class includes information about feeding, how to bathe and swaddle your new baby, safe sleep, caring for and calming a newborn, ways to make sure your baby is safe at home, in the car, and in an emergency, and tips on how to make this newborn period an easier transition for you.

Class Testimonials:

"Class was a wealth of knowledge in a reasonable amount of time."

"Straight forward, simple to understand and well presented."

"Good reminders on a lot of different aspects of caring for an infant."

Please note: Between May 7 and June 29, there will be a traffic detour due to new construction. Please click here for directions.

Registration is per person.

Expectant first time parents can learn about common newborn needs and behaviors and how to prepare for bringing baby home. This class includes information about feeding, how to bathe and swaddle your new baby, safe sleep, caring for and calming a newborn, ways to make sure your baby is safe at home, in the car and in an emergency, and tips on how to make this newborn period an easier transition for you.

Class Testamonials:

"Class was a wealth of knowledge in a reasonable amount of time."

"Straight-forward, simple to understand and well presented."

"Good reminders on a lot of different aspects of caring for an infant."

Registration is per person.

Expectant first-time parents can learn about common newborn needs and behaviors and how to prepare for bringing baby home. This class includes information about feeding, how to bathe and swaddle your new baby, safe sleep, caring for and calming a newborn, ways to make sure your baby is safe at home, in the car, and in an emergency, and tips on how to make this newborn period an easier transition for you.

Class Testimonials:

"Class was a wealth of knowledge in a reasonable amount of time."

"Straight forward, simple to understand and well presented."

"Good reminders on a lot of different aspects of caring for an infant."