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For further information and a booking form please contact:
Emma Woodward, Conference and Events Management
Tel - 01772 892654
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Conference Background
This conference will address social, cultural, psychological, and emotional aspects of parenting an infant who has spent time on a neonatal unit. It will seek to establish the current evidence base for the nature of, culture around, and outcomes of parenting, with particular emphasis on how health care professionals can facilitate, enhance or impede this process.
Presentations will cover a variety of topics including research, reflections from a parent, current best practice and availability of support both in the hospital and community.
Conference Aim
The conference will provide the opportunity to develop and disseminate evidence in the area of parenting, to enhance clinical practice, education, management, supervision, policy and further research collaboration.
Objectives
1. To disseminate complete research
2. To disseminate current practice
3. To provide the opportunity for collaboration and debate
4. To discuss an agenda for the future in the area of parenting the vulnerable neonate
Who should attend
- neonatal nurses
- midwives working on neonatal units
- community special care staff
- charitable/voluntary organisations e.g. BLISS, Sure Start
- student midwives/nurses with an interest in paediatrics/neonates
service users
- neonatal and midwifery educators of all levels
- nursery nurses
Draft Conference Programme
Tuesday 13th May 2003
Chair: Debbie Kenny
08:30 Registration
09:15 Welcome and Introduction
09:30 Parental Participation and use of language and control by nurses Annie Dixon, University of Central Lancashire
10:15 Developmental Aspects of Parenting Tilly Reid, University of Central Lancashire
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Parenting the baby with neonatal abstinence syndrome Karena Fellowes, University of Central Lancashire
12:15 Risk factors for PND in parents with babies on NICU.
How to recognise PND developing and how PND influences
parent-infant attachment Roger Rowlands
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Support for Parents in NICU Speaker from BLISS - TBC
14:25 Support for Parents in the community Carole Butterfield, Midwifery Co-ordinator Mainstreaming Sure Start for North Manchester General Hospital and Penny Sankey, Co-ordinator for the Health Visitors in
East Manchester Sure Start programmes
14:45 Coffee
15:15 A Parents perspective of life in NICU Mandy Ridyard
16:15 Evaluation and Close
For further information and a booking form please contact:
Emma Woodward, Conference and Events Management
Tel - 01772 892654
Fax - 01772 892977
E-mail - [log in to unmask]
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