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ACNM Region 1 Conference: Strengthening Midwifery Through Advocacy, Leadership, and Knowledge
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Date & Location:
Friday, September 20, 2024 & Saturday, September 21, 2024
8:30-5:00pm
Baystate Health Education Center, 361 Whitney Avenue, Holyoke, MA
Hybrid course: In-Person and Zoom
ACNM Sponsored Evening Gala
Black Birch Vineyard
108 Straits Road
North Hatfield, MA
Click here to register for the ACNM sponsored Evening Gala
Goal
The goal of this educational activity is to expand high quality reproductive health care though the lifespan with emphasis on the healthcare needs of marginalized populations and enhance leadership competencies to align interprofessional workgroups in working toward improved health outcomes and decreased disparities.
Jointly Provided by:
Baystate Department of OB/GYN Division of Midwifery, American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Region I, Massachusetts Affiliate of ACNM, & Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education
Target Audience
This course was designed for Midwives, student midwives, nurses, doulas, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, physicians providing Ob/Gyn and midwifery care in New England, Puerto Rico, and NY State.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the historical role of midwifery
- Understand how medical authority overthrew midwifery in the US specifically and more widely around the world
- Distinguish between medically managed midwifery and the power of traditionally based midwifery
- Discuss the historical context for controversies around hormone therapy.
- Review current research and Menopause Society guidelines on hormone therapy.
- Increase midwives’ comfort with counseling about, prescribing, and continuing MHT for eligible patients and offering evidence-based nonhormonal alternatives when indicated
- Review epidemiology of pregnancy-related hypertension.
- Discuss risks associated with postpartum hypertension.
- Consider strategies for treatment of postpartum hypertension
- Identify three strategies to give effective feedback.
- Practice strategies for both giving and receiving feedback, with opportunity for reflection and critique.
- Identify three strategies to reach a common understanding in difficult conversations
- Share insights and lessons learned from the Coalition of Save the North Shore Birth Center
- Apply knowledge to advance midwifery in the region
- Discuss the critical role of communications, community engagement and public affairs in midwifery advocacy
- Summarize the legal ramifications concerning abortion after the end of Roe v Wade
- Describe positive responses to Dobbs
- Identify how Certified Nurse Midwives can provide abortion care
- Conduct a vulvar exam for any patient undergoing a pelvic exam
- Identify signs and symptoms of lichen sclerosus, lichen simplex chronicus and lichen planus
- Prescribe first line therapies for the most common vulvar dermatoses
- Introduction, discussion of the universality of midwifery and the specifics of human evolution that required midwifery
- Recall the history of medical management colonizing birth care.
- Examine the consequences of medical management in increasing rather than decreasing infant and maternal morbidity and mortality.
- Review the context of intersectional bias, trauma, and racism in our educational system
- Discuss the proposed benefits and evidence for utilizing trauma-informed care principles in midwifery education and precepting
- Provide strategies to recognize bias and past trauma, prevent new trauma, and dismantle racism in midwifery education and precepting
- Utilize a case-based approach to increase knowledge of hormone therapy as well as opportunities to mitigate health disparities for transgender and gender non-binary clients in diverse midwifery settings.
- Provide an overview of prescribing guidelines for common medications for hormone therapy
- Review contraception, pregnancy, and lactation considerations for transgender and gender non-binary clients in relation to hormone therapy
- List evidence for the benefits of doula care and labor support.
- Describe the methods in which doulas may help reduce racial disparities in maternity are.
- Identify structural and organizational supports that can be employed to facilitate the adoption of a doula program.
- Describe various challenges to integrating doulas into a hospital system.
ACNM Region 1 Meeting Program | |
FRIDAY, 9/20/24 | |
8:00-12:00 | Registration Open |
8:00-8:30 | Check-in & Continental Breakfast |
8:30-9:00 | Welcome, Moment of Gratitude, Overview |
9:00-10:30 | The Loss of the Midwifery Model: How Medicalization Colonized Childbirth Keynote Speaker: Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD |
10:30-10:45 | Break |
10:45-11:45 | Optimizing Care: Midwives and Menopause Hormone Therapy Vanessa Ross, CNM, MSN, MSCP, CLC |
11:45-1:15 | Lunch (Group Photo at 1:10pm) |
1:15-2:15 | Postpartum Hypertension Mary Paterno, PhD, CNM |
2:15-3:15 | Giving and Receiving Feedback: A guide to listening like you mean it Moderator: Holly Christensen, MSN, CNM |
3:15-3:30 | Break |
3:30-4:30 | Lessons from a Birth Center Closure Emilee Regan |
4:30 | Adjourn |
SATURDAY, 9/21/24 | |
8:00-12:00 | Welcome/Overview |
8:00-8:30 | Check-in & Continental Breakfast |
8:30-8:45 | Welcome/Overview |
8:45-9:45 | Abortion Access in a Post-Roe Landscape David Kattan, MD, MPH |
9:45-10:45 | Vulvar Dermatoses Angela “Frannie” Koenig, MD, MPH |
10:45-11:00 | Break |
11:00-12:00 | Pregnancy, Birth and Risk Keynote Speaker: Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD |
12:00-1:30 | Lunch (Group Photo at 1:25pm) |
1:30-2:30 | Trauma Informed Precepting Vanessa Ross, CNM, MSN,MSCP, CLC; Rashea Banks, CNM, MSN, MPH |
2:30-3:30 | Hormone Therapy Principles for Transgender & Gender Non-Binary Clients Ryan Pryor, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CNM |
3:30-3:45 | Break |
3:45-4:30 | Update from ACNM Leadership Michelle Munroe, DNP, APRN, CNM, FACNM, FAAN |
4:30-5:15 | Lessons From BESIDE: Birth Equity Through the Inclusion of Doula Expertise Autumn Versace, DNP, CNM; Laconia Fennel, CLC |
5:15-5:30 | Closing Remarks |
Maps & Directions
The Baystate Health Education Center is the primary location for many of Baystate's continuing education, orientation and other Baystate sponsored programs.
Travel
Hotel Accommodations:
Homewood Suites by Hilton, Springfield-North/Holyoke
375 Whitney Avenue
Holyoke, MA 01040
(413) 532-3100
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/holhwhw-homewood-suites-holyoke-springfield-north/
Group Name: Baystate Health – Midwifery Conference
For travel, registration, food allergies, or other administrative questions, please contact Cait Glenn via email at
Cait.Glenn@baystatehealth.org or 413-794-4172.
2024 ACNM Region 1 Meeting Committee Members
Holly Christensen, MSN, CNM | Margi Coggins, MSN, CNM | Donna Jackson-Kohlin, MSN, CNM |
Michele Helgeson, DNP, MPH, CNM | Susan “Sukey” Krause, MSN, CNM | Rochelly Maldonado, MS, CNM |
Mary Paterno, PhD, CNM | Autumn Versace, DNP, CNM |
FACULTY
Name of Individual | Individual's Role in Activity | Financial Relationship Disclosure | Discussion of |
|---|---|---|---|
Margi Coggins, MSN, CNM | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Donna Jackson-Köhlin, CNM, MSN | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Michele Helgeson, DNP, MPH, CNM | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Susan “Sukey” Krause, MSN, CNM | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Rochelly Maldonado, MS, CNM | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Michelle Palmer, PhD, CNM | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Heather Sankey, MD, M.Ed. | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Neomi Seidell, MSN, RN, HN-BC | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Frank Szczerba, PharmD, BCPPS, BCPS | Planning Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Holly Christensen, MSN, CNM | Planning Committee Member/Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Mary Paterno, PhD, CNM | Planning Committee Member/Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Autumn Versace, DNP, CNM | Planning Committee Member/Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Laconia Fennell, CLC | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
David Kattan, MD, MPH | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Angela Koenig, MD, MPH | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Ryan E. Pryor, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CNM | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Emilee Regan | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Vanessa Ross, CMN, MSM, MSCP, CLC | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | Yes |
Rashea Banks, CNM, MSN, MPH | Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Barbara K. Rothman, PhD | Keynote Speaker | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Faculty Disclosure
The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.
None of the other planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physicians
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 11.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 11.25 contact hour(s). Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Physician Assistants
Baystate Health has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credits for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 11.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credit(s). PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Pharmacists
Baystate Health designates this activity for a maximum of 11.25 contact hours (s) for pharmacists. Pharmacists should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team and learners will receive 11.25 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 11.25 AAPA Category 1 CME creditBaystate Health has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 11.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PA’s should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
- 11.25 ACPE Contact Hours
- 11.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 11.25 ANCC Contact Hours
- 11.25 IPCE Credit Hour(s)
If interested in an exhibitor table only, please complete the Exhibitor Letter of Agreement.
If interested in an exhibitor/sponsor package (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze) or other available sponsorship opportunities, please complete the Sponsorship Letter of Agreement.
Price
| Early Bird Registration rate valid through 8/15/2024. | |
| ACNM Members** and Midwives | Coupon code ACNM2024 |
| Students and Community Members* | Coupon code ACNMEARLY |
| Midwives in Puerto Rico | Coupon Codes Not Valid. |
| *Any attendee who does not identify as a midwife or student. **Currently a member of ACNM | |
Please Note: In order for your registration to be considered complete: |
*If your Baystate department is covering your registration fee, you MUST
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| In order to receive CREDIT, the evaluation must be completed by: | Mon, 10/21/2024 - 5:00pm |
We appreciate your business and sincerely wish to meet your educational needs. We understand that the schedule of a busy professional, like yourself, is subject to change. Therefore, we have included information about our refund/cancellation policies for your convenience below.
Cancellation:
If you must cancel, telephone Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education at 413-322-4242 and follow your call with a written/email request.
Specific Aids or Services:
Please call Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education at 413-322-4242 if, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, you require specific aids or services during your visit to this continuing education program.