Speakers:Terri M. Marin, PhD, NNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP, FNAP, Augusta University College of Nursing

Dr. Terri Marin’s primary program of research focuses on developing diagnostic strategies to identify risk factors for ischemic disease in premature infants using near infrared spectroscopy technology. In collaboration with a multidisciplinary research team, Dr. Marin’s work has led to practice change in neonatology associated with packed red blood cell administration to very low birthweight infants. Her exploratory research has identified elements related to mesenteric hypoperfusion during blood transfusions that potentially increase the risk for necrotizing enterocolitis development, a disease associated with significant mortality of prematurity.

Dr. Marin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurses and a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners for her internationally recognized research in this area.

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.

Overview:

• Define ethical responsibility
• Discuss a framework for analyzing ethical dilemmas
• Analyze NICU specific ethical cases

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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!