Please join us for a Continuing Nursing Education program:
Safeguarding Moms’ and Babies’ Health:
The Meaning of Screening
Provided by
The Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015 from 8:30am – 3:15pm
Bayberry Room, HackensackUMC Mountainside
One Bay Avenue, Glen Ridge, NJ 07028
Conference Goal
The purpose of this continuing nursing education program is to enable the learner to enhance evidence
based information sharing and practice by presenting updates on the latest screening tools available for
use during preconception and pregnancy as well as the child’s first year of life.
Presenters
Jonathan O’Brien, MD
Perinatologist, New Jersey Perinatal Associates
Jan Huston, MD
Medical Director, The Breast Center at Hackensack University Medical Center Mountainside
Ellen Maughan, JD, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC
Lactation Consultant, University Pediatric Associates, Highland Park, NJ
Private practice
Thomas Hegyi, MD
Director, Neonatal- Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program
Professor and Vice-Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School
Barbara Ostfeld, PhD
Professor, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Pediatrics
Program Director, SIDS Center of New Jersey
Patricia Lucarelli, RN-BC, MSN, CPNP, APN, PMHS
Nurse Practitioner Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Booker Family Health Center
Adjunct Professor, Monmouth University – Unterberg School of Nursing
Target Audience
Perinatal and pediatric nurses and advance practice nurses
Objectives
As a result of attending this continuing nursing education program, participants will be able to:
 Describe the goals of preconception screening and care
 List five common medical or genetic conditions amenable to preconception
 Describe evidence-based screening for women at normal risk and higher levels of risk during the
childbearing years
 Discuss specific screening recommended during pregnancy and lactation
 Describe the serious complications of hyperbilirubinemia: kernicterus
 Outline the natural history, clinical manifestations and treatment for neonatal jaundice
 Discuss the new screening procedures and management of infants at greater risk for neonatal jaundice
 Identify three functional factors that may indicate that an infant has a tongue tie
 Describe the current status of NJ tongue-tie screening legislation
 Explain the newest guidelines and findings on evidence based methods for preventing SIDS and other
sleep related infant deaths
 Describe how to screen and remediate caregivers, healthcare providers and hospital and child care
institutions regarding current knowledge, practices and policies on safe infant sleep
 Discuss the impact of parent education by nurses and other healthcare providers on New Jersey’s rates of
sudden unexpected infant deaths
 Review current recommendations for developmental screenings of infants and toddlers
 Discuss the components of assessment and identification of developmental delays in infants and toddlers
 Identify interventions for infants and toddlers who present with possible delays
 List two essential characteristics of effectively communicating with parents regarding
possible developmental delays
Continuing Nursing Education Contact Hours
This program has been awarded 5.75 contact hours.
The Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey is an approved provider of continuing
nursing education by New Jersey State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Please note: Accredited status does not imply endorsement by NJSNA, The Partnership for Maternal Child Health of
Northern New Jersey or ANCC of any commercial products or services.
Disclosures
None of the planners, speakers or facilitators has any vested interest in the content of this continuing nursing
education program to disclose. They have no financial relationship to any products being discussed.
Successful completion
To receive contact hours for this CNE program, the registrant must sign in on the sign-in sheet, attend the entire
program and complete and submit the program evaluation form.
Registration
Registration fee:
HackensackUMC Mountainside staff: $25
Partnership member hospital staff: $35
Other: $45
Registration deadline: 9/27/15
Registration is on-line at http://partnershipmch.org/professional-education/
Refunds are not possible. However, if the registrant is unable to attend, another colleague may substitute.
Questions?
Contact Amy Gole at agole@partnershipmch.org or 973-268-2280 x100