2012 WAPC Annual Conference Web site
The Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care Annual Statewide Conference brings together statewide and national perinatal experts to discuss pertinent and emerging perinatal issues. Conference attendees will enjoy the benefits of learning from a multidisciplinary group of presenters and colleagues who all share the common goal of healthy women, infants, and their families.
The purpose of the WAPC Annual Statewide Conference is to provide information about advances in perinatal care for all who have an interest in perinatal health.
Who Should Attend?
This is a conference for everyone who shares an interest in the health of women, infants, and their families—physicians and nurses, public health personnel, social workers, pharmacists, dietitians, therapists, consumers, administrators, and educators. The educational content addresses the continuing education needs of those from low-volume birth hospitals to perinatal centers, inpatient and outpatient settings, and acute care and public health; those who pay for care; those who make decisions about the provision of care; and those who monitor quality and outcomes.
A SAMPLE OF WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
- Essentials. . . managing neonatal hypoglycemia, multidisciplinary fetal monitoring strip review, diagnosing chorioamnionitis, implementing new guidelines for neonatal resuscitation, making OB and neonatal care safer
- Innovations. . ..neonatal pulse oximetry screening, centering pregnancy, providing interconception care in medical homes, preventing central line infections
- Strategies. . . strategies for measuring quality in perinatal care, emergency simulation drills, PeriData.Net® for quality improvement, cesarean reduction, SSRIs and maternal depression
- Challenges. . . reducing disparities in outcomes, caring for women and infants affected by opioids, legal and ethical issues in reproductive health, conducting reliable neonatal abstinence scoring
Access Conference Materials Online
Click here to access the WAPC conference brochure and materials. There will be no printed conference brochures. Please share the conference Web site address with colleagues and interested perinatal providers and advocates
All conference materials—speaker handouts, exhibitors, sponsors—will be posted on the Web site as they become available.
WAPC will continue to provide CDs of the conference materials for a nominal cost of $30. Registrants may purchase a CD when they register to attend the conference.
Registration is online. Follow the link to the registration page.
