Public Health Nursing Care Plans for Supporting Perinatal Mental Health Practice in Home Visitation Programs
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This webinar will introduce a framework that has been developed to guide public health nursing practice in the recognition, assessment, and response to perinatal mental health issues among pregnant individuals and parents enrolled in Ontario’s Healthy Babies Healthy Children program. The strengths that public health nurses bring to the work of supporting parents address their mental health concerns will be highlighted. Detailed care plans, following the nursing process, to support individuals with anxiety, depression, suicide, perinatal psychosis and homicidal ideation will be introduced, including guidance for nursing assessment and intervention.
By the end of this event, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the process for developing the perinatal mental health nursing care plans and accompanying practice guidance document.
2. Understand the overarching framework developed to guide public health nursing practice with respect to perinatal mental health and the corresponding detailed care plans for anxiety, depression, risk for self harm/harm to others and psychosis.
3. Understand how the care plans can help to structure nursing care in home visiting services and guide nursing practice in the early recognition, assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation components of the nursing process in response to mental health concerns in the perinatal period.
4. See alignment between the perinatal mental health nursing care plans and evidence-based tools and interventions available for use by nurses within home visiting programs.
Presenter(s)
Bonnie King is a Registered Nurse, Educator and Consultant
with over thirty years experience in Public Health Nursing (Family Health)
and Leadership.
Christina Bradley is a Registered Nurse, Lactation Consultant and Public Health Nurse
with Niagara Region Public Health & Emergency Services with 25 years of experience and
has developed expertise in perinatal mental health, family health and health promotion.
Christina is the Co-Chair and Bonnie is a member of the Working Group established to develop public health nurse care plans and guidance to recognize, assess and respond to perinatal mental health concerns among individuals enrolled in Healthy Babies, Healthy Children.