PCEO Region II Course Overview
What Now? Discharge & Beyond
Description
This course is designed to educate nurses with the many questions parents have once discharged from the hospital. Topics will include what is normal for baby in the first months of life, car seat safety, sleep and tummy time, some immunizations, reasons for newborn readmissions, postpartum guidelines, and parent needs.
Course Objectives
- Relate the importance of providing home-going education for parents
- Identify the top five reasons for newborn admissions to the hospital
- Discuss immunizations in baby’s first month of life
- Discuss the importance of car safety
- Describe what is normal for baby in the first months
- Discuss the importance of sleep and tummy time
- Recognize parent needs
Information
Contact hours: 6.5.
The Children’s Medical Center (OH-042/6/1/11) is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Ohio Nurses Association (OBN-001-91), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Co-provided by PCEO.
Faculty: RNs experienced in postpartum, home care and car seat safety
Target audience: RNs, LPNs and other healthcare providers who work with babies and parents within the office, clinic or home care settings or re-hospitalized babies and their families
Date: March 17, 2010
Time: 8:00 AM to 4:30PM
(Registration begins 7:30 am)
Deadline: March 3, 2010
Location: Wilson Memorial Hospital, Sidney
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(2010 Course Offerings - January thru June Booklet is available for download)
Download the PCEO Winter/Spring 2010 Booklet & Registration PDF
