Join us for a webinar designed to enhance your understanding of the critical role the coroner plays in maternal and newborn health investigations. Learn the role of nurses and other health professionals in contacting the corner. Learn what the recommendations may mean for your improvements in your organization and your care.
Sharon has been an Advanced Practice Nurse in high risk Obs & Gyn at Hamilton Health Sciences and is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Dept of Obs & Gyn at McMaster University. She holds a BScN from McMaster University, a Masters in Education from Brock University and Masters and PhD in Nursing from Wayne State University (Detroit).
Sharon is an member Ontario Maternal and Perinatal Death Review Committee (coroner’s committee), National Fetal Health Surveillance steering committee, and Canadian Association of Perinatal and Women’s Health Nurses (CAPWHN) including as President. She has served on multiple SOGC committees including ALARM. Mortality, Obstetrical Content review, Guideline Oversite, Morbidity and Mortality and Conference Planning. She is an ALARM and FHS instructor.
Nancy Watts, is a perinatal nurse with many years of experience in Labour and Delivery as a staff nurse, then as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and finally working as Manager of Quality and Patient Safety. She has worked in a number of hospitals including Scarborough Grace, London Health Sciences and now Mount Sinai Hospital.
She continues to work on policy development and to teach fetal health surveillance as part of her role. She has worked with others across Canada on the development of the OTAS score, originally with physicians and nurses at London Health Sciences. She is a lifelong learner and has learned a lot in preparation for today’s webinar.
This webinar is free for CAPWHN members and $20.34 for non-members (to be paid by e-transfer at admin@capwhn.ca)
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2024
Jan 17 – Cultural Safety and Humility in Indigenous Health and Care in Canada
Feb 29 – Induction of Labour: A Review of the 2023 SOGC Guideline
Sept 13 – Maternal Sepsis
October 8 – The Great Power of Nurses: The Influence of Nurses on Perinatal Outcomes
2023
May 30 – Maternal Mortality in Canada: We Can Do Better!
Oct 16 – Antenatal Fetal Health Surveillance: A Review of the 2023 SOGC Guideline
2022
January 11 – Towards a National Perinatal Mental Health Strategy
February 9 – Breaking the Cycle of Pain: Helping Women Navigate the Symptoms of Endometriosis
April 27 – Preserving the Time to Bond
June 21 – Promoting the Well-Being of Nurses: Sleeping with Science
September 14 – Covid-19 Infection and Vaccination During Pregnancy
2021
January 21 – Hémorragie Postpartum (French Webinar)
January 28 – Impacted Fetal Head
February 10 – Induction of Labour
February 22 – Trauma Informed Care
March 31 – Impacted Fetal Head
April 27 – Neonatal Skin Care
May 5 – COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy
May 19 – Health Outcomes and Experiences of WOmen with Disabilities in Ontario
June 8 – Multidisciplinary Team Challenges to Caring for Newborns with HIE
June 15 – Obesity in Pregnancy
December 8 – Vaccine Hesitancy: Best Practices in Moving Towards Vaccine Confidence
Recordings of past Webinars are available to CAPWHN members only. Simply log in to the members only section of the website and click on Webinars.