Live Education

2021 AWHONN Virtual Convention – Live Sessions

Join us during the noted times below to hear from speakers and ask your questions in real-time.

Sunday, October 10

11:50 am – 12:50 pm
GS1 Managing Chaos, Cultivating Calm – EC
Virginia Beeson

2:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Nursing Excellence Sessions
(1.25 nursing contact hours)

NE1 – Using Maternal Case Studies to Interpret Lab Values for Preeclampsia, Cardiac Conditions, and Infection/Sepsis (OB) – EC
Patricia D. Suplee, PhD, RNC-OB, FAAN
Suzanne Spernal, DNP,APN-BC, RNC-OB

NE2 – Many Things Cease during Pandemics but Intimate Partner Violence Isn’t One of Them; How Nurses Can Improve Patient Safety (WH) – EC
Kim Nash, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P

NE3 – What a Catch! Proactively Preventing Newborn Falls/Drops (N) – EC
Nora Knipper, MSN, RN, NEA-BC
Heather Condo DiCioccio, DNP, RNC-MNN, C-ONQS

NE4 – Politics for the Nurse Who Dislikes Politics: Are We Really Going to Let Her Eat That Placenta? (PI) – EC
Tracy McManaman-Bridges, EdD, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM

Monday, October 11

11:25 am – 12:25 pm
GS2 – Black Motherhood and the Invisible Burden of Race, Racism, and Implicit Bias – EC
Jai-Me Potter-Rutledge, BS, MHA, PhD(c)

2:20 pm – 3:50 pm
COVID – A National and Global Perspective on COVID – An Interactive Conversation Addressing Equity, Outcomes and Preparing for the Future – EC
Ann Kurth, PhD, CNM, MPH, FAAN
Elizabeth Rochin, PhD, RN, NE-BC

4:10 pm – 5:40 pm
LS1 – Uterine Activity in Labor: Clinical and Legal Implications for Clinicians – EC, Rx15
Lisa Miller, CNM, JD

Tuesday, October 12
11:25 am – 12:25 pm
(1.0 nursing contact hours)
GS3 – Healthcare Advocacy: Giving a Voice to Your Heart – EC
William Leininger, MD
Lauren Nunally, MPH, BSN, RNC-OB

2:20 pm – 3:50 pm
LS2 – Corrective Measures: Taking a Proactive Approach to Category II Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) Patterns – EC, Rx10
Rebecca Cypher, MSN, PNNP

4:10 pm – 5:10 pm
SS – AWHONN Nurses’ Voices Heard: Application of Results of the AWHONN Staffing Survey – EC
Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN
Cheryl K. Roth, PhD, WHNP-BC, RNC-OB, RNFA

Wednesday, October 13
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
(1.25 nursing contact hours)
Global AWHONN: What Would This Look Like?
Joan E. Edwards, PhD, RNC, CNS, FAAN
Renee’ Jones, DNP, RNC-OB, WHNP-BC
Sandra K. Cesario, PhD, MS, RNC, FAAN

12:35 pm – 1:35 pm
(1.0 nursing contact hours)
DEI – How to Talk about Race – EC
Cheryl Larry-Osman, DNP, MS, RN, CNM, CNS-C

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
(1.0 nursing contact hours)
GS4 – Life in Balance: Improving the Quality of Your Journey – EC
Marianne Neifert, MD, MTS, FAAP