A03-1 Impact of the Helping Babies Survive Program on Neonatal Mortality and Stillbirth Rates: Findings from a Joanna Briggs Institute Systematic Review

 

Authors: Justine Dol, MSc; Marsha Campbell-Yeo, PhD, NNP-BC RN; Gail Tomblin Murphy, PhD, RN; Megan Aston, PhD, RN; Douglas McMillan, MD, FRCPC; Brianna Richardson, BScN, RN

 

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of the Helping Babies Survive Program on neonatal mortality rates and stillbirth rates.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the impact on newborn mortality rates after Helping Babies Breathe training in healthcare providers.
• Understand the impact on stillbirth rates after Helping Babies Breathe training in healthcare providers.
• Understand how the Joanna Briggs Institute Systematic Review was used to conduct this review.

Presenter: Justine Dol, PhD Health Program, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS

 

 

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A03-2 Look Before You Leap: Coast to Coast Responses to the Recommended Changes for Newborn Eye Prophylaxis

 

Authors: Janet Walker, RN, MSN, PNC(C); Leeanne Lauzon, RN, MSc, PNC(C)

 

Purpose: This session will consider the complexity of the impacts of the 2015 Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) Position Statement “Preventing Ophthalmia Neonatorum”, and describe how these have been addressed in Nova Scotia and British Columbia.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Review ophthalmia neonatorum and examine the impact of proposing practice change.
• Examine the different provincial approaches to the CPS position statement key recommendations.
• Explore where we go from here.

Presenters: Janet Walker, Perinatal Services BC, Vancouver BC; and Leeanne Lauzon, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia, Halifax NS