Educational Objectives
Upon conclusion of this activity, participants will be better able to:
Become familiar with the essential elements of perinatal palliative consult and adequately perform perinatal palliative consult.
Identify families’ needs and apply strategies to successfully achieve support when they have a newborn with a life-limiting condition.
Identify newborns’ basic needs and apply strategies to successfully achieve a state of comfort for newborns with life-limiting conditions.
Adequately manage pregnancy and delivery of women with fetal diagnosis of life-limiting condition who elect to continue their pregnancies.
Speakers
Elvira Parravicini, MD (Assoc. Prof. of Pediatrics; Director of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program - CUIMC)
Russell Miller, MD (Assoc. Prof. of Obstetrics & Gynecology - CUIMC)
Whitney Booker, MD
Brian Carter, MD (Prof. of Pediatrics - University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine) Charlotte Wool, PhD, RN (Assoc. Prof. of Nursing - York College of Pennsylvania)
Christy Dowd, CCLS (Child Life Specialist - NY-Presbyterian / Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital)
Ruth Downing, BSN, RN (Clinical Nurse - NY-Presbyterian / Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital)
Betina Grigoroff-Aponte, RN, IBCLC, CCE (Lactation Consultant - NY-Presbyterian / Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital)
Monica Joshi, CCC-SLP (Speech Language Pathologist - NY-Presbyterian / Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital)
Frances McCarthy, MS, RNC-NIC, CPLC (Clinical Nurse Coordinator of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program - CUIMC)
Solimar Santiago-Warner, LCSW, CPLC (Social Worker of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program - CUIMC)
Rochelle Steinwurtzel, PsyD (Instructor in Clinical Psychology - NY-Presbyterian / Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital)
Emilee Walker-Cornetta, MDiv, BCC (Chaplain - Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary)
