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The Maternal Child Symposium is an educational conference designed to support healthcare proviers in expanding their knowledge of current maternal and child health concerns. The symposium addresses a broad range of topics spanning the continuum of care from pre-pregnancy through pregnancy, delivery, postpartum, and infancy, as well as helath concerns affecting children and adolescents from birth through 18 years of age. Educational sessions are presented by subject-matter experts and are intended for healthcare professionals with an interest in and/or experience caring for maternal and pediatric populations.
Target Audience
Nurse
Nurse Practitioner
Community healthcare providers
OB and Peds office staff
Nurse family Partnership
Learning Objectives
The participants are will be able to:
1. Distinguish vaccine facts from common myths ans utilize evidence based informtaion to confidently educate and council families about childhood vaccines.
2. Intergrate current evidence on lactation and humn milk into nursing practise by applying knowledge of it's biological and therapeutic benefits, recognizing short- and long-term health outcomes for infants and women, and innovations to promote human milk as medicine.
3. Describe and advance the understanding and treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction through community based therapy in order to reduce the stigma and average duration of symptoms for patients.
4. Recognize the multisystem pathophysiolgy and understanding how varying clinical presentations can impact assessment, diagnosis, and nursing management.
Course summary
- 7.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 7.00 Attendance
7:30 a.m. Welcome
8:00 a.m. Vaccines: The Facts and Myths - Dr. Nadar Younes M.D. and Brandy Webber CRNP, FNP Pediatric Healthcare Associates, Altoona
9:30 a.m. Break
9:45 a.m. Human Milk and Breastfeeding: A clinical Update - Dr. Kelley Baumgartel, PhD, RN, FAAN
11:45 a.m. Lunch
12:30 p.m. Treatment Options for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction - Megan O’Brian-Nicka OTR/L, MLD
2:00 p.m. Break
2:15 p.m. Spectrums of Preeclampsia - Dr. Liang Bartkowiak M.D. UPMC Magee Womens Specialty Services, Altoona
3:45 p.m. Evaluation
Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
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 7.0 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
- 7.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 7.00 Attendance