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All the Right Words: How to Speak to NICU Parents |
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| | Credit Hours: | This activity does not provide CE or CME credits. | | Valid Until: | N/A |
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| | Lecturer: | Jeff Stimpson | | Date Released: | 8/1/2007 |
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| | Affiliation: | NICU Parent | | |
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No CE credits of any type are currently available for this lecture.
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| | Lecture Overview: |
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| | This session offers discussion and recommendations based on the real, prolonged experience of one NICU dad. Jeff Stimpson's son Alexander was born at 27 weeks’ gestation in the summer of 1998, weighing 21 ounces. He spent a year in the hospital, six months of that in the NICU. Stimpson and his wife Jill came into the situation eager to learn as much as possible about their son's condition and not shy about asking questions regarding his treatment. Mr. Stimpson offers a compelling look at the roller coaster of emotions faced by parents with a severely ill child who must contend with sometimes supportive and sometimes callous medical staff and social workers as they advocate for the maximum care and opportunity for their child. He offers recommendations on phrasing, body language, and other nuances of communication, and will discuss how to deal with parents’ feelings in the NICU. |
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| | This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of Nurses, Nurse Practitioners. |
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| | After participating in this program, the medical professional should be able to:- Discuss tactics to enhance communication with NICU parents.
- Utilize proper communication skills with NICU parents.
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| | Lecturer Biography: |
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| | Jeff Stimpson, author of Alex: The Fathering of a Preemie (Academy Chicago Publishers, www.academychicago.com), lives with wife Jill and their two sons, Alex, 8, and Ned, 6, in New York. A native of Bangor, Maine, he freelanced for several years in New York before joining the staffs of The Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal and the Patuxent chain of weekly papers in Baltimore. He is a reporter for Practical Accountant magazine, and maintains a site of essays about his family at jeffslife.net. He and Jill also podcast about parenting a special-needs child; their casts, called Today's Special , are at http://jillandjeff.podbean.com. Alex is his first book; he is working on another that continues the story. |
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| | Lecturer Disclosure Statement: |
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| | Total CME and Educational Review Systems have a conflict of interest policy that requires course faculty to disclose any real or apparent commercial financial affiliations related to the content of their presentations and materials. It is not assumed that these financial interests or affiliations will have an adverse impact on the faculty presentations; they are simply noted here to fully inform participants.
Jeff Stimpson has no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests to disclose. |
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| | Accreditation Statement: |
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| | This activity does not provide CE or CME credits. |
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