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ForwardFall Update: Gestational Diabetes, Pre-eclampsia and Post-partum Care- September 12, 2024
This course will have three topics
Gestational Diabetes: What Nurses Need to Know
The Nurse Home Visitor needs to be able to relate current and correct information to the client. Diagnosis and treatment of conditions are always changing, and periodic review is important to ensure proper information is shared.
Optimizing Post-partum Care
Planning for the post-partum period is an often-overlooked aspect of prenatal care and education. Nurse Home Visitors are in an ideal position to provide help to new mothers with this much needed preparation and care. As a critical part of the experience as first-time mothers a periodic review of this information will be helpful to the nurses as they work with their clients.
Pregnancy related hypertension, pre-eclampsia, HELLP, and long-term cardiovascular complications
Pregnancy specific cardiovascular complications create high risk situations for the mother. A periodic review of the pathophysiology will help the nurse home visitors to better care for these clients.
Target Audience
Nurse
Learning Objectives
Gestational Diabetes: What Nurses Need to Know
- Describe the pathophysiology of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)
- Describe the potential maternal and fetal complications associated with GDM
- List the benefits of treating GDM
- Describe the screening methods commonly used to diagnose GDM
- Create a care plan outlining management of GDM
Optimizing Post-partum Care
- Define the post-partum period (the fourth trimester)
- List the topics related to post-partum that should be discussed prenatally.
- Perform a post-partum assessment in the mother's home.
- Describe the components of the post-partum care plan as defined by ACOG.
Pregnancy related hypertension, pre-eclampsia, HELLP, and long-term cardiovascular complications
- Define the following gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia, HELPP syndrome, peripartum cardiomyopathy.
- Discuss risk factors which may lead to pregnancy-specific cardiovascular complications.
- Identify protective factors associated with preventing pregnancy-specific cardiovascular complications.
- Outline assessment findings that require referral to the primary care provider.
- Describe antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum interventions for each of the conditions.
This course will have three topics:
Gestational Diabetes: What Nurses Need to Know
The Nurse Home Visitor needs to be able to relate current and correct information to the client. Diagnosis and treatment of conditions are always changing, and periodic review is important to ensure proper information is shared.
Optimizing Post-partum Care
Planning for the post-partum period is an often-overlooked aspect of prenatal care and education. Nurse Home Visitors are in an ideal position to provide help to new mothers with this much needed preparation and care. As a critical part of the experience as first-time mothers a periodic review of this information will be helpful to the nurses as they work with their clients.
Pregnancy related hypertension, pre-eclampsia, HELLP, and long-term cardiovascular complications
Pregnancy specific cardiovascular complications create high risk situations for the mother. A periodic review of the pathophysiology will help the nurse home visitors to better care for these clients.
Patricia Doty, MSN, RN, IBCLC
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 3.0 contact hours.
Other Healthcare Professionals:
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 3.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 3.00 Attendance