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Supporting Infant Sleep: A Suite of Tools for Public Health Nurses

This is an archive of a past event.

This webinar will introduce a suite of tools and resources developed to support public health nurses in Ontario’s home visiting programs in expanding their knowledge and level of support for families related to healthy infant sleep. Included in this presentation are two client-facing handouts on age-specific sleep expectations, two optional sleep strategies that can be discussed with families, three professional practice documents on understanding, assessing and intervening with the sleep health in families of infants, and a tool to support a family’s tracking of their daily routines will be introduced. Suggested interventions will connect back to currently utilized resources in the home visiting programs, such as PIPE and Keys to Infant Caregiving. 

​​By the end of this session, participants will: 

  1. ​Have enhanced knowledge of normal expectations regarding infant sleep 
  2. ​Be aware of professional resources to guide client assessment, intervention and evaluation regarding their perceived sleep concerns. 
  3. ​Feel empowered to implement the Sleep, Feed, and Play Tracker into their practice when applicable.​ 

Presenter(s)

 

Anja Cahill RN BNSc BScH is the Ontario Parent-Child Relationship Program Nursing Practice Lead. In this role Anja provides professional nursing practice support to NCAST Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) Scale Instructors across Ontario’s 29 public health units, through collaboration with partners from the Public Health Nursing Practice, Research & Education Program (PHN-PREP), the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services, and Parent-Child Relationship Program at the Barnard Centre within the University of Washington. 

 

 

 

Rikki Goba earned her undergraduate degree in Nursing from Brock University and is set to complete her Masters of Public Health with a specialization in Nursing in April 2025 from Lakehead University. With 12 years of experience as a Public Health Nurse at Niagara Region Public Health, she has spent the majority of her career focusing on high-risk home visiting in the Family and Community Health division. She currently leads the Nurse Family Partnership program, supporting first-time parents under the age of 25. 

 

 

 

Nicole Strangway, RN BNSc has worked in the Healthy Babies Healthy Children program at Lambton Public Health for 11 years. She works primarily with rural families including as a prenatal educator and co-facilitator of a postpartum support group. Nicole has been an NCAST PCI Instructor for 3 years.