Topical presenations   

Making care more woman-centred lets women take a more active role in their pregnancy before, during and after the birth, and results in a more positive experience.

Stress, in varying amounts, always exists within our culture and it is important to know how to deal with this stress through breathing,relaxation, nutrition, yoga and massage.

Wendy Gadsden shows Maternity Professionals how to offer their women a natural journey through pregnancy for a more satisfying birthing experience.

At the end of this workshop you will be able to:

 Define the relevant legislation and articulate professional guidelines in relation to prescribing by midwives.

Identify and utilise appropriate methods for managing third stage of labour.

Recognise and initiate necessary action for identified emergencies in childbirth.

Define their strengths and specified areas for professional and personal developm

Identify and utilise appropriate methods for assessing foetal growth and wellbeing throughout pregnancy.

A days training that brings you up to date with breast feeding (4 hours) and the initiatives natioal Women's is focusing on this year. This will be respectful relationships in the work force with Maggie and Jude, and Counselling Women with high BMI.

One day dedicated to looking at how posture, the environment, and the use of yoga and breathing with movement, can assist a woman in labour. It is a chance for Maternity Professionals to enhance their skills to assist mothers with vertex presentations to birth naturally. This is an experiential workshop where you will participate in pregnancy yoga, breathing techniques, acupressure and massage. The benefits of Birthing Lightly all aid towards a journey through pregnancy and labour, giving a complete experience. Cost: - $130 for all midwives and childbirth educators

Making care more woman-centred lets women take a more active role in their pregnancy before, during and after the birth, and results in a more positive experience.

Stress, in varying amounts, always exists within our culture and it is important to know how to deal with this stress through breathing,relaxation, nutrition, yoga and massage.

Wendy Gadsden shows Maternity Professionals how to offer their women a natural journey through pregnancy for a more satisfying birthing experience.

Advanced breast feeding course for Midwives & RNs who need more breast feeding hours

Course content to be advised 

The other way to get more breast feeding hours is to complete on line ELearning either 20 hours ( $100 ) or 1 hour expert lectures (these are $20 each and are new to ADHB) You can apply for 2 days study leave to do this.

or

12 hour course “breastfeeding the pre-term infant” ($100) You can apply for 1 days study leave for this.

 Email Gerry to enrol for on-line learning  gerrys@adhb.govt.nz

All midwives and general practitioners are invited to attend the 2 1/2 hour interactive workshops

Topical case presenations

 

A days training that brings you up to date with breast feeding (4 hours) and the initiatives National Women's is focusing on this year. This will be respectful relationships in the work force with Maggie, Mahia and Jude, and Counselling Women with high BMI.

This is the follow up half day to the full days training. Please come prepared to share your experiences with precpetoring

We look at two important areas in preceptoring

1. Student assessment
2. Having difficult conversations

International keynote speakers include

Professor Joseph Betancourt (Harvard)

Professor Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa (University of Michigan)

National guest speakers include

Dr Mary English • Dr Jeremy Stanley • Alex Fala

• validate Pacific solutions for our families

• facilitate relationships across

Pacific mental health, addiction,

disability and general health sectors

• ensure a more responsive health

and disability system

• showcase innovative leadership

and workforce development.

Topics include:

§        BCG  and Neo-Natal  Hep B Update

§        Immunology in Pregnancy and the Newborn

§        NZ Immunisation Schedule

§        Information for new parents

§        Parental concerns

§        Informed consent

§        National Immunisation Register

§        Vaccine Composition and Storage

A half day drill intensive for people who have already completed the full day. There is an emphasis on realism & multidisciplinary team work. Drills take place in the most realistic simulation centre of them all—delivery suite. Actresses with realistic prostheses will be in terrible pain, collapse unexpectedly or bleed profusely.

Evidence based and theoretiical hands on practical course for improving skills to deal with common obsetric emergencies. Emphasis is on team work between midwives, obsetricians and GPs.

Topical Case presenations

At the end of this workshop you will be able to:

 Define the relevant legislation and articulate professional guidelines in relation to prescribing by midwives.

Identify and utilise appropriate methods for managing third stage of labour.

Recognise and initiate necessary action for identified emergencies in childbirth.

Define their strengths and specified areas for professional and personal developm

Identify and utilise appropriate methods for assessing foetal growth and wellbeing throughout pregnancy.

A days training that brings you up to date with breast feeding (4 hours) and the initiatives National Women's is focusing on this year. This will be respectful relationships in the work force with Maggie, Mahia and Jude, and Counselling Women with high BMI.

Course Description

 

Associate Professor Leonie Callaway, Head of the Royal Brisbane Clinical

School and Specialist in Obstetric and Internal Medicine at the Royal

Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. Leonie’s interests include obesity and

inflammation in pregnancy

Professor Caroline Crowther, Director of the Australian Research Centre

for Health of Women and Babies (ARCH; www.health.adelaide.edu.au

/og/research/arch.html) and (from 01/06/2012), Liggins Institute,

University of Auckland. Caroline is an international expert in perinatal

clinical trials.

Professor Wayne Cutfield, Paediatric Endocrinologist and Director of the

Liggins Institute, University of Auckland. Wayne’s interests include the

long-term consequences of large-for-gestational-age babies, post-term

birth and birth following pregnancies complicated by hyperemesis.

Topical case presentations

Excellent CTG education program run by the RANZCOG.

It focuses on improving understanding, interpretation & management of the CTGs & associated foetal monitoring techniques. ADHB recommends that all staff and access holders interpreting CTGs do this course and keep updated.
Excellent online learning package available.

Course Description

Presented by

Date

4th April

Time

8.00

Where

How to book & links

 

 

Cost

Midwifery/CPE points

A days training that brings you up to date with breast feeding (4 hours) and the initiatives National Women's is focusing on this year. This will be respectful relationships in the work force with Maggie, Mahia and Jude, and Counselling Women with high BMI.

This is the follow up half day to the full days training. Please come prepared to share your experiences with precpetoring

We look at two important areas in preceptoring

1. Student assessment
2. Having difficult conversations

Course Description

Next year's Annual Scientific Meeting of the Perinatal Society of New Zealand will be held in Wellington on Friday 15th June 2012.  There will be a conference dinner on the Thursday evening.

Please note that the Perinatal Mortality Review Committee Annual Workshop will also be held in Wellington, on Thursday, 14th June, and participation in this important workshop is also open.

 

 

 

All new nursing or midwifery staff to ADHB should attend

A course to teach BFHI /  breastfeeding principals at National Women’s

·        Attachment theory

·        Drugs and breast milk

·        Mastitis

·        Formula & WHO code

·        Practical alternatives to teats

·        Cultural perspectives

·        10 steps & policies

This is a diverse day with lots of opportunities for great learning.                   

You choose three 2-hour sessions to go to from 6 possible choices, or you can bumble-bee around all 6 sessions, or come for an individual session.

The actual times of each will be put up on this site closer to the time

At the end of this workshop you will be able to:

Define the relevant legislation and articulate professional guidelines in relation to prescribing by midwives.

 Identify and utilise appropriate methods for managing third stage of labour.

Recognise and initiate necessary action for identified emergencies in childbirth.

Define their strengths and specified areas for professional and personal development.

Identify and utilise appropriate methods for assessing foetal growth and wellbeing throughout pregnancy.

A days training that brings you up to date with breast feeding (4 hours) and the initiatives National Women's is focusing on this year. This will be respectful relationships in the work force with Maggie, Mahia and Jude, and Counselling Women with high BMI.

This is the follow up half day to the full days training. Please come prepared to share your experiences with precpetoring

We look at two important areas in preceptoring

1. Student assessment
2. Having difficult conversations

A days training that brings you up to date with breast feeding (4 hours) and the initiatives National Women's is focusing on this year. This will be respectful relationships in the work force with Maggie, Mahia and Jude, and Counselling Women with high BMI.

A very informative day where the stats and outcomes are critiqued and discussed

A days training that brings you up to date with breast feeding (4 hours) and the initiatives National Women's is focusing on this year. This will be respectful relationships in the work force with Maggie, Mahia and Jude, and Counselling Women with high BMI.

This will be a fabulous day. The day will focus on looking at why and how CULTURE is linked to best practice. Themes covered include Pacific peoples, their beliefs & values, Pacific models of care, family, language and tapu The challenge of the day will be to answer the following question? How can we organize, design and deliver our services so that our practice can better respond to the diverse Pacific community of women we serve. There will be a Pacific lunch and you may need to get involved in some hot hula!

Preeclampsia & Foetal growth restriction

  

• Fetal growth & perinatal mortality
• Birthweight and nutritional status
• Challenges in low & middle income countries Welcome Reception

• Prematurity, IUGR and neurological sequelae
• Early pregnancy screening and prediction
• Ultrasound protocols in low and high risk pregnancy
• International initiatives and standards for fetal growth
• Pros and cons of customised assessment

Evening: Gala Dinner

• Placental patterns of disease
• Fetal surveillance incl. Doppler parameters and biophysical profile
• Early onset IUGR: Implications of GRIT and TRUFFLE
• Late onset IUGR: DIGITAT and delivery vs expectant management
• Multiple pregnancy: growth standards and role of Doppler
• Macrosomia: risk factors, assessment and management

Evening: Balti Triangle    

-  Normal and abnormal growth in singletons and twins

-  Epidemiology and risk factors of IUGR

-  Macrosomia: diagnosis and management

-  Pros and cons of customized assessment

-  Screening and surveillance in low and high risk pregnancy

-  Protocols for referral and investigation

-  Timing of delivery

-  Short and long term outcomes

·      International faculty

·      Updates & results from multicentre collaborations

·      Workshops and demonstrations

This will be a fabulous day. The day will focus on looking at why and how CULTURE is linked to best practice. Themes covered include Pacific peoples, their beliefs & values, Pacific models of care, family, language and tapu The challenge of the day will be to answer the following question?How can we organize, design and deliver our services so that our practice can better respond to the diverse Pacific community of women we serve. There will be a Pacific lunch and you may need to get involved in some hot hula!

POINTS: APPLIED FOR…PROBABLY 5

At the end of this workshop you will be able to:

 Define the relevant legislation and articulate professional guidelines in relation to prescribing by midwives.

Identify and utilise appropriate methods for managing third stage of labour.

Recognise and initiate necessary action for identified emergencies in childbirth.

Define their strengths and specified areas for professional and personal developm

Identify and utilise appropriate methods for assessing foetal growth and wellbeing throughout pregnancy.

A half day drill intensive for people who have already completed the full day. There is an emphasis on realism & multidisciplinary team work. Drills take place in the most realistic simulation centre of them all—delivery suite. Actresses with realistic prostheses will be in terrible pain, collapse unexpectedly or bleed profusely.

PROMPT (Practical Obstetric multi-professional training)

A great day where a mixture of drills & lectures are used with an emphasis on realism & multidisciplinary team work. Drills take place in the most realistic simulation centre of them all—delivery suite. Actresses with realistic prostheses will be in terrible pain, collapse unexpectedly or bleed profusely.

Subjects covered are:

·        Teamwork

·        Basic life support & maternal collapse

·        PPH

·        Shoulder dystocia

·        Breech & cord prolapse

·        Hypertension & eclampsia

Breastfeeding study day 1

All new nursing or midwifery staff at ADHB should attend

 

A course to teach BFHI /  breastfeeding principals at National Women’s

·        Attachment theory

·        Drugs and breast milk

·        Mastitis

·        Formula & WHO code

·        Practical alternatives to teats

·        Cultural perspectives

·        10 steps & policies

Risks & benefits of BF

Presented by

Lactation Consultants, Maggie, Mahia and Jude

Date

10th September

Time

8.00 - 17.00hrs

Where

A plus room, level 5, Auckland City Hospital

How to book & links

 

For all ADHB staff go to the intranet and click on Kiosk.

For non ADHB people, email LilineH@adhb.govt.nz

 

Cost

$100 for non ADHB people

This is the follow up half day to the full days training. Please come prepared to share your experiences with precpetoring

We look at two important areas in preceptoring

1. Student assessment
2. Having difficult conversations

Advanced breast feeding course for Midwives & RNs who need more breast feeding hours

Content to be advised 

The other way to get more breast feeding hours is to complete on line ELearning either 20 hours ( $100 ) or 1 hour expert lectures (these are $20 each and are new to ADHB) You can apply for 2 days study leave to do this.

or

12 hour course “breastfeeding the pre-term infant” ($100) You can apply for 1 days study leave for this.

Email Gerry to enrol for on-line learning  gerrys@adhb.govt.nz

Would you like to put on a preceptors coat?

 

We need wise, skilled midwives who are keen to pass on their skills to student midwives and Complex Care trainees, to train as preceptors. Council expects all midwives who work with students to be trained preceptors by 2014.

The training covers

·         Definition of a preceptor

·         Principals of adult learning

·         Learning styles & acquisition of MW skills

·         Principals of teaching

·         How to plan a learning experience

·         How to give feedback

·         How to undertake clinical assessment

·         Conflict resolution skills

·         Communication skills

·        Reflective practice

There are 4 hours reading time (either at work or at home) which you are expected to do prior to the study day. When you book on the course please email Jude Cottrell and she will send you this reading material. There is a days training on the 19th January 2012 (Clinical Education Centre, Level 5), then a half day training on the morning of 19th April (Greenlane room CEC. Level 5)

PROMPT (Practical Obstetric multi-professional training)

A great day where a mixture of drills & lectures are used with an emphasis on realism & multidisciplinary team work. Drills take place in the most realistic simulation centre of them all—delivery suite. Actresses with realistic prostheses will be in terrible pain, collapse unexpectedly or bleed profusely.

Subjects covered are:

·        Teamwork

·        Basic life support & maternal collapse

·        PPH

·        Shoulder dystocia

·        Breech & cord prolapse

·        Hypertension & eclampsia

Perinatal Mortality meeting

Multi-disciplinary presentation & discussion on recent perinatal losses.

This a time for midwives to come together to share cheese and crackers and discuss a recent case. There will be presentations from midwives involved in the woman’s care and confidential discussion.

All midwives welcome.

One professional development point for attending and 5 for those midwives presenting.