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September 2025

 

Date: September 16, 2025

 

Time: 12:00 PM EST

 

Title: Perinatal Substance Use and Care

 

Description

Dr Bigalky and Dr Gulbransen will share their frontline experiences, best practices initiatives, and current research related to perinatal substance use. The session will also highlight key recommendations from the CAPWHN Position Statement on Perinatal Substance Use.

 

Learning Objectives:

 

  1. Describe the impact of substance use on perinatal outcomes
  2. Discuss evidence-based best practices in the care of individuals affected by perinatal substance use
    • Participants will learn how to integrate trauma-informed, nonjudgmental, and culturally safe approaches into clinical practice, based on frontline experiences and current initiatives shared by the presenters.
  3. Identify key recommendations from the CAPWHN Position Statement on Perinatal Substance Use and describe how to apply them in clinical settings to support advocacy, policy development, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

 

 

 

Presenters:

Kristen Gulbransen, RN PhD

Dr. Kristen Gulbransen is passionate about best practice in perinatal substance use. She is an educator for Red Deer Polytech and Alberta Health services. Her program of research is focused on strengths-based approaches, co-led projects with Indigenous partners, and ways to improve the existing health system in the context of Perinatal Substance Use. She is co co chair of the Advocacy and Health Policy CAPWHN committee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jodie Bigalky, RN PhD

Dr. Jodie Bigalky is an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Nursing, with focus in perinatal and women’s health. Her program of research is focused on the health equity of women and gender diverse people, particularly perinatal people with substance use disorders. She is an active member of CAPWHN and currently co-chairs the Advocacy and Health Policy committee.

 

 

 

 

 

Register HERE

 

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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WEBINAR RECORDINGS

Past Webinar Recordings

 

AVAILABLE TO CAPWHN MEMBERS ONLY 

(requires login to members only site)

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.