E05-1 Care by Text - A Pilot Project using Technology to Support Mental Wellbeing in the Perinatal Period

 

Authors: Heather Dickson RN, BScN, CCHN(C); Rebecca Wickson RN, BScN

 

Presenters: Heather Dickson and Rebecca Wickson, KFL&A Public Health, Kingston ON

 

Purpose: To share an innovative program developed by Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health and Community Partners to provide pregnant persons with information about mental wellbeing, local resources, and opportunities to self-screen for perinatal mood disorders via text.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the importance of mental health and overall parental wellbeing throughout the perinatal period.
• Understand the importance of using patient identified methods of communicating important information about mental wellbeing and self-screening.
• Describe the process/methodology being used by the Care by Text program throughout Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington.

 

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E05-2 Working Collaboratively Towards a “Healing Birth”: Sharing Three Patients’ Stories

 

Author: Christine Finnbogason BSc(M), BN, MN, RN, PNC(C)

 

Presenter: Christine Finnbogason, Women's Hospital, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg MB

 

Purpose: To examine, through case review, three patient stories of traumatic birth and how a collaborative birth plan assisted them with having a "healing birth". The presenter will share these stories along with ideas of how nurses can be part of this healing process.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Define traumatic childbirth and identify the potential outcomes related to these experiences.
• Understand how health care providers can assist women with traumatic birth experiences through the use of mothers’ stories.
• Describe the effectiveness of a collaborative birthing plan.