Methodist Women's Hospital Outreach Program
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The mission of the Methodist Women's Hospital Outreach Department is to ensure healthy pregnancies through the expertise of neonatal and maternal-fetal medicine specialists while helping referring physicians continue caring for high-risk patients in their communities.
Should a higher level of care be necessary, our facility – the first in the state to receive The Joint Commission's Perinatal Care Certification – is home to the region's most experienced maternal-fetal medicine team, an eight-bed inpatient high-risk obstetrical unit, and a 51-bed level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for newborns requiring specialized care.
Goals
- To assist community hospital staff and physicians in providing the best possible care and keep as many obstetrical patients as possible in their communities.
- To provide antepartum testing consultation to physicians and their patients in their own community.
- To increase physician and nurse use of resources through education and information.
- To assist community hospital physicians and nurses in identifying those patients who need consultation or transfer and to accomplish this at the earliest time possible.
Outreach Program Staff
Get to know the Methodist Women's Hospital Outreach Program team members and their roles.
Programs Offered Through Methodist Women's Hospital
Course Registration
Review course summaries, learn about specialty programming and register for courses online by selecting Women's Health in the TOPIC drop-down menu of the Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development website.
Offered Courses
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Target Audience: Nurses who work with preterm infants
Course Description: This program will provide a forum to increase the knowledge related to nursing care of preterm infants.
Target Audience: All managers and leaders of obstetric units within the organization and outreach areas
Course Description: The purpose of this program is to provide a forum for discussion related to obstetrical and neonatal issues and the manager's role in the community setting.
Target Audience: Nurses who work in labor and delivery
Course Description: This program will provide information about the safe nursing care of women receiving cervical ripening and/or induction and augmentation of labor.
Target Audience: Clinicians who interact with patients and families experiencing early perinatal loss
Course Description: This program will provide inter-professional education for clinicians in the Emergency Department (ED) and Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) to assist patients and families experiencing early perinatal loss.
Target Audience: Licensed health professionals who have both knowledge and bedside experience in fetal monitoring interpretation and who express interest in taking the certificate of added qualification for electronic fetal monitoring offered by the National Certification Corporation (NCC)
Course Description: This program will provide a forum to increase the knowledge related to information and test taking strategies specific to electronic fetal monitoring.
Target Audience: Nurses who are experienced in caring for women receiving fetal heart rate monitoring and already have a basic understanding of electronic fetal monitoring (EFM)
Course Description: This program is an intermediate course pertaining to electronic fetal monitoring (EFM). Participants should have a basic understanding of EFM prior to attending. Completing this program will give the experienced health professional the ability to identify principles and concepts related to the interpretation of EFM tracings.
Target Audience: Nurses who care for women receiving electronic fetal heart rate monitoring
Course Description: This program is for the novice health professional working with obstetric patients. The program introduces the principles and concepts of electronic fetal monitoring.
Target Audience: Nurses and healthcare providers who work with postpartum women and infants
Course Description: This program will provide a knowledge foundation to best support breastfeeding mothers and promote a successful breastfeeding experience.
Target Audience: Nurses who work in labor and delivery
Course Description: This program will provide knowledge related to the care of the patient in labor and delivery.
Target Audience: Nurses and healthcare providers who work with patients and families experiencing labor
Course Description: This program will provide a forum to increase the knowledge related to nursing care of the patient in labor.
Target Audience: Nurses who work in postpartum
Course Description: This program will provide knowledge related to the care of the patient in the postpartum unit.
Target Audience: Nurses who work in the obstetric area
Course Description: This program will provide knowledge and skills related to the care of the patient in the obstetric area.
Target Audience: Nurses who work with term infants
Course Description: This program will provide knowledge related to the care of term infants.
Target Audience: Nurses who work with term and preterm infants
Course Description: This program will provide a forum to increase the knowledge related to nursing care of term and preterm infants.
Target Audience: Clinicians who interact with patients and families experiencing perinatal loss
Course Description: This program will provide interprofessional education for clinicians to assist patients and families experiencing perinatal loss.
Target Audience: All nurses and other healthcare professionals who care for the term and preterm infants.
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to provide a forum that increases knowledge related to stabilization of the newborn.