Spring 2017 Conference
Thursday, April 27th & Friday April 28th
Best Western Hospitality Hotel & Suites
5500 28th Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49512
**** PLEASE NOTE THAT REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN MINUS $10 FOR BIRTH ATTENDANCE THAT INTERFERES WITH CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE***
Schedule
Thursday
8:30-9:00 – Check in and light breakfast
9:00-11:30 – Licensing and Education update.
Panel presentation and discussion with Stacia Proefrock CPM, Connie Perkins CPM, Sarah Wilson SM, Emily Likens CPM, Laurie Zoyiopoulos CPM, Eileen Denomee CPM.
11:30-1:00 – Lunch - On your own or with friends!
1:00-2:00 – Membership Meeting and Website Tutorial
2:00-3:15 – Newborn Screening updates. Nan Asher, Masters in Liberal Studies Michigan Early Hearing Detection and Intervention and Michigan Newborn Screening field expert presenting ** all hearing machines should be brought in in the morning to be calibrated***
3:15-3:30 – Break
3:30-6:00 – Creating a Sustainable Midwifery Practice with Madeline Lutz CPM and roundtable discussion on sustainable midwifery practice models following the presentation.
Friday
7:45-8:00 - Check in and light breakfast
8:00-4:30 – STABLE course taught by
Lynette Johnson RNC BSN MSA
Neonatal Outreach Coordinator
The book may be purchased from Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/B-L-Program-Learner-Provider-Manual/dp/1937967026
Before reading the book, take the pre-test (will be sent out to everyone when they register). Everyone must bring the completed pre-test answer sheet to class where it will be reviewed as a group. It is necessary to have the answer sheet in order to get CEUs.It’s helpful if they also bring the book to class.
This class comes with 6.2 nursing CEUs, which are accepted by NARM. (instructor will take care of the CEU certificates) STABLE counts towards category 2 for the bridge certificate. There will be 2 15 minute breaks and a 45 minute lunch.
Lunch Friday – Taco and Burrito bowl bar from Qdoba. Included in registration.
Speaker/Course Highlights:
THURSDAY - Creating a Sustainable Midwifery Practice with Madeline Lutz CPM
During her clinical training, Madeline Lutz became fascinated and exhausted by midwives’ on-call lifestyle. She completed research that produced both information on the nature and contributing factors of burn-out, as well as guidelines to introduce a work-life balance to a professional that struggles with finding a business model that supports self-care. Madeline is passionate about midwifery and bringing the Midwives Model of Care to more American families, and believes that modern midwifery culture must be deliberate in addressing these concepts, which may keep midwives healthy and sustained.This presentation will discuss the negative impact of the on-call lifestyle on both midwife and client and provide specific group practice models as well as suggested guidelines for creating more self-care and work-life balance into midwives lives. Midwife burn-out is an all too-common casualty in our profession and by discussing this reality, Madeline hopes we can make midwifery a more attainable and sustainable career by focusing on the importance of self-care and work/life balance. Madeline Lutz is a CPM in Atlanta, Georgia, and a graduate of Midwives College Utah. An extended version of this presentation was given at the Midwives Alliance of North America Conference in Atlanta this past fall. In her spare time (ha) Madeline likes to read, to travel and to coach and train crossfit.
FRIDAY - S.T.A.B.L.E. is the most widely distributed and implemented neonatal education program to focus exclusively on the post-resuscitation/pre-transport stabilization care of sick infants. Based on a mnemonic to optimize learning, retention and recall of information, S.T.A.B.L.E. stands for the six assessment and care modules in the program: Sugar, Temperature, Airway, Blood pressure, Lab work, and Emotional support. A seventh module, Quality Improvement stresses the professional responsibility of improving and evaluating care provided to sick infants.
First introduced in 1996 in the US and Canada, S.T.A.B.L.E. has grown internationally to include instructor training and courses in more than 45 countries.
taught by Lynette Johnson, RNC, BSN, MSA who is the Neonatal Outreach Coordinator at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids. She has been involved in neonatal nursing since 1987 and has been a STABLE instructor for 14 years. She has taught infant stabilization classes to Physician, Nurses, Advanced Practice Nurses, Nurse Midwives, Paramedics and EMTs. As a regional NRP instructor she has taught classes to a variety of midwives and has an understanding of the unique situations midwives encounter.
