Excellence in Patient Care: Overcoming Breastfeeding Challenges

Thursday, April 30, 2020
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Hackensack Meridian Healt

 

This full-day conference will focus on providing basic breastfeeding support to postpartum patients in the hospital setting.

Agenda

8:00 – 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45

Welcome
Amy Gole, RNC-MNN, Ed.M, NE-BC
Director of Education, Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey
8:45 – 9:45 Title
Mary Turbek, RN, IBCLC
9:45 – 10:30 Title
Mary Turbek, RN, IBCLC
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:15 Skills Sessions (participants will rotate through each of 2, 45-minute sessions)
  Skills Session A  – (morning)

Getting Started
Margaret Johnstone, BSN, RNC, PCE, IBCLC
Chilton Medical Center

Teresa Mancuso, MA, RN, IBCLC
Englewood Hospital & Medical Center

Latch Assessment Tools
Jeanette DePrimo, RNC, CCE
Hackensack Meridian Health JFK Medical Center

Joanne Wells, RNC, IBCLC
Hackensack University Medical Center

Skills Session B – (morning)

Alternative Feeding Methods
Danielle Tropea, BA, IBCLC
University Hospital

Renia Tsigaras, RN, IBCLC
Holy Name Medical Center

NICU
Suzanne O’Neill, RN, IBCLC
Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Nadine Vaccarino, IBCLC, RLC
Saint Barnabas Medical Center
12:15 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Title
Mary Turbek, RN, IBCLC
2:00 – 2:15
 Break
2:15 – 3:45 Skills Sessions (participants will rotate through each of 2, 45-minute sessions)
Skills Session C  – (afternoon)

Hand Expression
Sharon Tanis, RN, BSN, IBCLC, LCCE
The Valley Hospital

Mary Anne Buonadies, RN, IBCLC
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Paced Bottle Feeding
Sarah Muller-Robbins, MPH, RN, IBCLC
Hackensack Meridian Health JFK Medical Center

Luiza Zuraw, RNC-MNN, IBCLC
Hackensack Meridian Health JFK Medical Center

Skills Session D – (afternoon)

Case Studies
Suzanne O’Neill, RN, IBCLC
Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Nadine Vaccarino, IBCLC, RLC
Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Use of Breastfeeding Tools
Laura Kelly, RN, IBCLC
Hackensack Meridian Health

L’via Weisinger, BA, BSN, RN-C, IBCLC
The Valley Hospital
3:45 – 4:00

Questions & Answers
 

Registration Fees
Hackensack Meridian Health JFK Staff $35
Partnership Hospital Staff $45
All Others $60

 

Target Audience

Lactation consultants, doulas, labor and delivery, mother/baby, and NICU nurses

Learning Outcome

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Continuing Education Contact Hours

This program has been awarded 6.0 contact hours. The Partnership for Maternal & Child Health is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by NJSNA, an accredited approver, by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Provider # BLANK

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education activities only and does not imply approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed/displayed in conjunction with the educational activity by the Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey, NJSNA, or ANCC.

Contact

For accommodations, issues, or more information, please contact Amy Gole at (973) 268-2280 x 100 or click here to email.

Disclosures

The planners and speakers do not have any conflicts of interest to report for this activity.

Successful Completion

To receive contact hours or CERPs for this program, the registrant must sign-in on the sign-in sheet, attend the entire program, initial out on the sign-in sheet, and complete and submit an online program evaluation form. Certificates of attendance will be generated electronically within one week of the close of the online evaluation period.

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