Webinars
Past Webinars
A NEANN Webinar
Moral Distress in the NICU: A Nurse’s Guide to Moral Agency
Tuesday, August 15, 2023, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. EDT
Speakers: Pamela J. Grace, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN; Margaret (Peggy) Doyle Settle, PhD, RN, NE-BC
Pamela Grace is an Associate Professor Emerita in Nursing and Ethics at the William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College. She is an internationally recognized expert in nursing and healthcare ethics and has written and presented extensively on issues of advocacy, professional responsibility, and social justice.
Peggy Doyle Settle joined the faculty at Endicott College in September 2022. She is a Ph.D. prepared nurse with postdoctoral training in biomedical ethics, research, and biostatistics. She is the former Nurse Director of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has over 30 years of nursing experience in a variety of roles including (staff nurse, educator, clinical nurse specialist, and nurse director).
Overview:
- Define ethical responsibility
- Discuss a framework for analyzing ethical dilemmas
- Analyze NICU specific ethical cases
A NEANN Webinar
Failure to Rescue in the NICU:
What Does This Mean and How Can We Address It?
Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 7 p.m.-8 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Alyssa B. Weiss, PhD, NNP-BC
Dr. Weiss has served as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner for 20 years. She became a Nurse Scientist in 2021, after graduating from the University of Arizona with her Ph.D. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner program at Old Dominion University in Virginia.
Overview:
- Define failure to rescue
- Describe its application in the hospital setting
- Describe ways the concept is applicable in the NICU and how it differs in this setting
- Describe challenges leading to failure to rescue and how they can be mitigated
A NEANN Webinar
Beyond NRP: Providing Better Resuscitation in the NICU
Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, 7 p.m.-8 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Elizabeth Schierholz, PhD, NNP-BC, Children’s Hospital of Colorado
Overview:
- Review current literature and research regarding what we know about resuscitation in the NICU
- Identify the resuscitation needs of the NOT “newly born” infant in the NICU
- Review Neonatal Resuscitation Program guidelines that apply to the NOT “newly born” infant in the NICU
- Review Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) resuscitation guidelines that may fill “gaps” in current resuscitation knowledge and practice in neonatal intensive care units
A NEANN Webinar
National Neonatal Nurses Day Webinars
Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, 7 p.m.-9 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Leslie A. Parker, PhD, APRN, NNP-BC, FAAN
Overview:
Dr. Leslie Parker is an Associate Professor in the Biobehavioral Nursing Science department of the College of Nursing at the University of Florida.
Related Documents:
Optimizing Nutrition in Critically Ill Infants in the NICU (PDF)
Breast Milk Supply and Demand: Let’s Even the Score (PDF)
Video:
Watch on YouTube (2:18:06)
A NEANN Webinar
Implementing an Integrated Education Plan to Promote Safe Sleep
Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, 7 p.m.-8 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Cheryl Killoran, MS, RNC-NIC
Overview:
Cheryl Killoran has spent almost 40 years working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, and has been the NICU nurse educator for the past 10 years.
Related Documents:
UMass Safe Sleep Presentation NEANN (PDF)
Discharge Planning Tool for Families – Ready, Set, Go (PDF)
Safe Sleep for Infants Policy (PDF)
A NEANN Webinar
Milk Flow Rates from Bottle Nipples:
What We Know & Why it Matters
Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, 7 p.m.-8 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Britt Pados, PhD, RN, NNP-BC
Overview:
Britt Pados is a nurse researcher and faculty member at Boston College School of Nursing. Dr. Pados’ research focuses on supporting feeding in infants and young children with medical complexity, particularly those born preterm or with congenital heart disease.
She has developed a method for testing milk flow rates and has conducted multiple research studies exploring milk flow rates from bottle nipples. More recently, she has examined the effects of thickening and formula type/preparation on flow rates.
Video:
Watch on YouTube (57:03)
A NEANN Webinar
Not “Just” A Nurse
Monday, May 11, 2020, 8 p.m.-9 p.m. EDT
Speaker: Amy Deagle, MscN, BN, RN
Topics:
- Why the phrase “just a nurse” has broken our profession…and how we can fix it
- Designing and forging your own exciting career path (there is no such thing as “just” a nurse)
- The nursing profession is in the hands of a new generation of nurses…and that’s a great thing!