43rd Annual L. Joseph Butterfield Perinatal Conference
How COVID rocked our world from conception and beyond!
Much progress has been made in the care of high-risk pregnant women, critically ill newborns, and families. Still, we have more work to do to ensure the best and safest care for these populations. This year the conference addresses topics related to COVID and its effects on pregnancy, newborns, family, and community.
Brochure
Target Audience
This interprofessional conference is comprised of nurses, advanced practice providers, physicians, respiratory therapists and other maternal/child health providers practicing in a variety of roles and settings throughout the region.
Learning Objectives
- Explain trends in preterm birth rates in Colorado before and after the stay-at-home COVID-19 restriction enactment.
- Discuss the prevalence and predictors of COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among Colorado mothers.
- Review what we know to date about COVID and pregnancy, including outcomes, vaccination recommendations, treatments, and fetal exposure.
- Explain how family engagement and parental coping affect health and well-being of high-risk infants and how to address these within inpatient settings.
- Describe three ideas to create an engaging experience for parents.
- Understanding and overcoming the challenges from the COVID-19 Pandemic through virtual support and self-care practices for NICU families and staff.
- Provide an in-depth meaning of pediatric nurses' experiences responding to the pandemic to inform future practice.
Learner Outcome
At the conclusion of this event, participants will self-report evidence-based knowledge, skill and/or practice changes to leadership, healthcare teams, families and/or community partners.
Resources
Breastfeeding Impacts in the Age of COVID-19.pdf
Coming Full Circle - A Former NICU Nurse Turned NICU Mom.pdf
Coping with the NICU in a COVID World.pdf
COVID and Pregnancy - What Do We Know Now.pdf
Impact of COVID-19 on the Colorado Perinatal Population.pdf
Promoting Parental Coping and Family Engagement.pdf
Strange and Varied Presentations of COVID-19 in the NICU.pdf
Friday, September 9, 2022
7:30am Welcome - Sign in, technology check
8:00am Impact of COVID-19 on the Colorado Perinatal Population: Preterm Birth and Vaccination Hesitancy
Stephanie Bourque, MD, MSCS & Susan Hwang, MD, MPH, PhD
9:00am COVID and pregnancy: What we know now
Christina Wood, MD, MS
10:00am Break
10:15am Promoting Parental Coping and Family Engagement through Direct Service Delivery in the NICU and Antepartum Units
Allison G. Dempsey, PhD
11:15am The Strange and Varied Presentations of COVID-19 in the NICU
David Randolph, MD, PhD
12:15pm Lunch
1:00pm Coming Full Circle: A Former NICU Nurse Leader Turned NICU Mother
Amy Wiford, BSN, RN, NTMNC
2:00pm Coping with the NICU in a COVID World
Sahra Cahoon
3:00pm Break
3:15pm Breastfeeding in the Age of COVID
Erica Wymore, MD MPH
4:15pm Insights to the COVID Response in Pediatrics
Lindsey Tarasenko, PhD, RN and Nadia Shive, BA, CCRC
5:15pm Wrap Up, Evaluation
5:30pm Adjourn
5:30pm In-Person Networking Session
7:00pm Wrap Up
Faculty
Stephanie Bourque, MD, MSCS
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
Section of Neonatology University of Colorado School of Medicine
Associate Medical Director, Children’s Hospital Colorado NICU
Sahra Cahoon
Love for Lily
Executive Director, Founder, and Lily’s Mama
Allison G. Dempsey, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Director, Connections Program for High-Risk Infants and Families
Director, Perinatal Behavioral Health Pathways Program
Sunah Susan Hwang, MD, MPH, PhD
The Lula O. Lubchenco Chair in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
David Randolph, MD, PhD
Pediatrix
Corporate Medical Director
Neonatalogy of the Rocky Mountains
Nadia Shive, BA, CCRC
Professional Research Assistant, University of Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus, College of Nursing
Lindsey Marie Tarasenko, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus,
College of Nursing, Nurse Scientist, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Amy Wiford, BSN, RN, NTMNC
Pampers Nurse Specialist
Cristina Wood, MD MS
Associate Professor Anesthesiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Medical Director Anesthesiology, Colorado Fetal Care Center Program
Director, Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship
Erica M. Wymore, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Neonatal- Perinatal Medicine University of Colorado School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Neonatology Children's Hospital Colorado
Nursing: Children’s Hospital Colorado is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This educational offering for 8.25 nursing contact hours is provided by Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Other: A general certificate of attendance will be provided for all other participants.
Available Credit
- 8.25 Attendance
- 8.25 NCPD