E03-1 Changing Practice and Promoting Skin-to-Skin Contact After Birth

 

Authors: Jennifer Jollymore, BScN, BSc, RN; Melissa Mackie, BN, RN, IBCLC

 

Purpose: To inspire nurses working with new families to protect uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact between mothers and babies after birth.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the importance of protecting uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact between mothers and babies after birth.
• Identify areas of their own practice that they can adapt to be more 'baby friendly'.
• Describe strategies that they can use in their workplace to promote practice change.

Presenters: Jennifer Jollymore and Melissa Mackie, IWK Health Centre, Halifax NS

 

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E03-2 “Walking the Line:” Public Health Nurses’ Preliminary Responses to (Observed or Suspected) Child Maltreatment in the Nurse-Family Partnership Program

 

Authors: Lenora Marcellus, PhD, MN, BSN, RN; Karen MacKinnon, PhD, MN, BSN, RN; Susan Jack, PHD, RN; Andrea Gonzales, PhD; Lil Tonmyr, PhD; Colleen Varcoe, PhD, RN; Natasha Van Borek, BA, MScPPH

 

Purpose: To describe how public health nurses recognize and respond to suspected child maltreatment among home visited clients and describe the impact of child welfare reports on families and nurses. 

 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the purpose and program elements of the Nurse-Family Partnership intervention.
• Identify key themes reported by nurses in their experiences of identifying and reporting child maltreatment when working with young families.
• Explore how nurses can negotiate the tension between developing trusting relationships and following legislated reporting mandates.

Presenters: Lenora Marcellus and Karen MacKinnon, University of Victoria School of Nursing, Victoria BC