Best Practice Education and Resources Committee
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Best Practice Education and Resources Committee
The AWHONN Canada Educational Representatives and Resource Committee members were realigned in Fall, 2007 to form the new Best Practice Education and Resources Committee. To have this group working together seemed like a "good fit" for us all!
The following is an introduction to each member, as well as one or two of their favourite best-practice resources or educational tool.
Janet Walker, Chair As Committee Chair, I am honoured to work with this group. I have been in perinatal nursing for 26 years. My keen area of interest is high risk antepartum. I completed my BSN in 2003 from UBC and have just completed my MSN from UBC as well. My involvement in AWHONN began in 2002 as secretary treasurer for AB/BC. I am currently the program manager for High Risk Antepartum/Postpartum at B. C. Women's Hospital in Vancouver.
Janet's Picks: Currently, my journals from AWHONN are where I continually go for perinatal information. I look forward to learning more about other resources available to perinatal and neonatal nurses.
Robin Evans, Winnipeg
Robin's Picks:
Lela Zimmer, Resources Representative, BC I began nursing with a diploma from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) knowing that I wanted to work with childbearing families. I worked for several years in the acute care setting, primarily in the maternal/child and gynecology areas. Following this I completed a post-diploma BSN degree at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), and a PhD in Nursing at the University of Alberta. I have been teaching as a faculty member of the UNBC School of Nursing since the fall of 2000 at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. My areas of clinical practice, research and scholarship include inter-professional practice, perinatal nursing and midwifery, rural and northern nursing practice, ethics and qualitative research approaches.
Lela's Picks: British Columbia Perinatal Health Program Guidelines for Perinatal Care found at http://www.bcphp.ca/Guidelines.htm
Kathy Yorke, Educational Representative, Manitoba/Saskatchewan I've been involved with NAACOG/AWHONN since 1985 when I first became a member and then served as the Vice Chair for MB/Sask. I have presented at the Leadership conference in Washington. Over the years I have served on a number of committees, and been involved in the local conferences.
Most recently, I am the Education chair for our chapter in Mb./ Sask. I have been working with moms & babes since 1975 - from NICU, normal nurseries, transport, research, L&D and now I ply my trade on the phone. I work part time at the Provincial Health Call Centre - Health Links.
Kathy's Picks: I refer to AWHONN's practice statements, JOGNN & my colleagues most often!
Lenora Marcellus, Resources Representative, BC I am the current leader of perinatal program development for the Vancouver Island Health Authority. I support acute care obstetrical programs and prenatal and postnatal public health programs across the island. I also lead some early planning work on women's health for the region. I have recently completed my doctorate in nursing at the University of Alberta and current research area of interest is perinatal substance use and the care of infants with prenatal substance exposure.
Lenora's Picks: The ActNow BC Healthy Choices in Pregnancy website (http://www.hcip-bc.org/) is loaded with up to date information for providers on substance use during pregnancy. The site takes a respectful woman-centered harm reduction approach to the issue.
The second great resource pick is the new women's health data directory developed by the BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (http://www.womenshealthdata.ca/). The site is called "The Source" and includes not only a wide range of data sources related to many health and social issues, but also each field includes a sex and gender analysis of the data that is available. Along the lines of sex and gender analysis, the BC Women's Health Research Network has made their primer on sex and gender analysis for planning available on line at http://www.whrn.ca/better-science-download.php
Finally the Period of Purple Crying program resources for preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome, including an online module, are available at http://www.dontshake.ca/index.php
Irene Sarasua, Educational Representative, Quebec I am a relatively new AWHONN member - not yet two years in! I am a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Maternal-Child Health in Montreal and am a faculty lecturer at McGill University's School of Nursing. Previously, I worked with a program of research in Migration and Reproductive Health. With the McGill School of Nursing I am involved in curriculum development around a new global health studies section within the Master's in Nursing Program. My areas of interest include cross-cultural nursing, perinatal mental health and infant feeding.
Irene's Picks: The RNAO's Best Practice Guidelines (Women's Abuse Screening, Breastfeeding, PPD, Embracing Cultural Diversity, etc.). I find myself often going back to these. They can be found at: http://www.rnao.org/Page.asp?PageID=861&SiteNodeID=133
Diane Boswall, Resources Representative, Prince Edward Island I have been involved in perinatal nursing for 26 years. I enjoyed many years as a staff nurse on the maternal newborn gynecology unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown. Currently I am the coordinator of the PEI Reproductive Care Program.
Diane's Picks: The AWHONN journals and clinical practice guidelines. The provincial perinatal programs across Canada are also a very valuable resource.
Chirstina Claussen
Christina's Picks:
Monica Friesen
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