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ForwardNW NAS Symposium April 8, 2022
The activity will educate the health care professionals assembled and the associated community organizations that support mothers and babies with the knowledge to identify NAS, develop Eat Sleep Console for babies with NAS and improve the connection for families with NAS babies. The activity will also provide information on substance use, the stigma surrounding it and how to connect pregnant people with a Substance Use disorder to wraparound care after the mother and baby are discharged.
Target Audience
Nurse
Physician
Social Worker
Learning Objectives
• Define Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and different scoring methods that are currently used to identify infants who are impacted.
• Describe and discuss different modalities of treatment for addiction, especially as they relate to pregnant women.
• Define Eat, Sleep, Console Method and discuss how it can be implemented to care for infants with NAS.
• The importance of promoting the mother-baby dyad and non-pharmacological soothing methods for the treatment of NAS.
• Analyze the impact of prenatal substance exposure on the long-term development of the child and implications for behavior management.
• Describe an overall strategy for developing behavioral interventions that support appropriate behavior in children affected by prenatal substance exposure.
• Discuss the role of Children & Youth Services in supporting families affected by NAS.
• Examine the evidence demonstrating the impact of stigma on treatment resources and care of patients with addictive disorders.
• Learn about strategies for changing stigma and how to implement them in policy and practice settings.
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 Audience Disclosure slides (006).pptx | 459.31 KB |
 NAS Symposium Brochure Final.pdf | 707.87 KB |
| I.Chasnoff 1.pdf | 943.01 KB |
| I.Chasnoff Breakout.pdf | 5.72 MB |
| N.Labor_.pdf | 11.92 MB |
| A.Douaihy.pdf | 1.56 MB |
| C.King_.pdf | 4.38 MB |
| Lesik.Simons.pdf | 234.67 KB |
The activity will educate the health care professionals assembled and the associated community organizations that support mothers and babies with the knowledge to identify NAS, develop Eat Sleep Console for babies with NAS and improve the connection for families with NAS babies. The activity will also provide information on substance use, the stigma surrounding it and how to connect pregnant people with a Substance Use disorder to wraparound care after the mother and baby are discharged.
Ira Chasnoff, MD - President of Children’s Research Triangle, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Erin Currier, BSN, RN, RNC-MNN - Mother Baby Unit Clinician, Magee Women’s at UPMC Hamot
Antoine Douaihy, MD - Professor of Psychiatry & Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Senior Academic Director for Addition Medicine Services, UPMC
Dr. Denise Johnson (tentative) - Acting Physician General of Pennsylvania
Deborah Lesik, Supervisor - Crawford Co. Human Services
Cambria King, CRS, PN - Certified Recovery Specialist, Pregnancy & Women’s Recovery Center, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
Nicole Labor, DO, BCFP, BCABAM - Addiction/Family Medicine
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. 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.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 7.0 continuing education credits.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 7.0 contact hours.
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 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 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 ASWB
- 7.00 Attendance