Agenda Item Details
Day 4   Saturday Oct 13, 2018
10:00 - 11:30am
Concurrent Session F04 - Unique Considerations in Pregnancy
Description

F04-1 Perinatal Outcomes in Women with Disabilities: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 

Authors: Lesley Tarasoff MA, PhD(c); Saranyah Ravindran BSc; Hannan Malik BSc; Hilary Brown PhD

 

Presenter: Lesley Tarasoff, University of Toronto, Toronto ON

 

Purpose: To describe the perinatal outcomes of women with disabilities based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of the available literature.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe perinatal outcomes of women with disabilities.
  • Describe the quality of studies on perinatal outcomes of women with disabilities.
  • Identify gaps in knowledge regarding perinatal health of women with disabilities.

 

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F04-2 Action on Discussing Legal Substance Use with Women

 

Authors: Nancy Poole PhD; Karen Gelb MA; Lindsay Wolfson MPH; Rose Schmidt MPH; Natalie Hemsing MA

 

Presenters: Nancy Poole, Karen Gelb, and Lindsay Woolfson, Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, Vancouver BC

 

Purpose: To present a pan-Canadian project designed to better understand the incorporation of gender-, equity-, and trauma-informed brief interventions on alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, and prescription opioids, into health and social service practice with women and their partners, in the preconception, interconception and perinatal periods.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Demonstrate the use of brief intervention practices with women and their partners who use alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and prescription opioids in the preconception, interconception and perinatal periods.
  • Recognize opportunities to apply gender-, equity- and trauma-informed substance use approaches to brief interventions.
  • Increase competence and confidence of nurses regarding the use of discussion-based interventions on substance use.

 

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F04-3 Improving Support for Pregnant Women who Use Opioids – Linking Hospital Care with Community Care

 

Authors: Debbie Champ RN(EC), BScN; Jackie Girard RN

 

Presenters: Debbie Champ and Jackie Girard, Cornwall Community Addictions and Mental Health, Cornwall ON

 

Purpose: To review the development of a roadmap for program quality improvement in a medium-sized, non-teaching hospital's current Neonatal Abstinence Program, from gap identification and solution building to implementation.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe how to develop a roadmap that will guide implementation of evidence-based guidelines.
  • Describe strategies to identify gaps in a program.
  • Understand how to build-in patient participation in a program’s quality improvement activities.

 

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