High Impact Practice Set (HIPS) for Outpatient Settings: Respond to Mental Health Conditions to Improve Maternal Health Webinar

This webinar presents high impact practices to respond to mental health conditions in the outpatient sexual and reproductive health setting. This webinar is part of a series on High Impact Practice Sets (HIPS) that address leading causes of maternal mortality and racial disparities in maternal health. These practices were adapted from the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) Patient Safety Bundles by the RHNTC in collaboration with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).  Speakers describe the impact of mental health conditions on maternal health, including on racial disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality; the importance of addressing mental health conditions in the reproductive health setting; high impact practices for responding to mental health conditions; and new RHNTC resources to help respond to mental health conditions.

Speakers:

• Meg Sheahan, MSN, CNM, MPH, Senior Clinical Consultant, RHNTC
• Christena Raines MSN RN APRN-BC PMH-C, Perinatal Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
• Danielle Jones, Patient Advocate

Learning Objectives: 
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the impact of mental health conditions on maternal health, including its impact on racial disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality
• Describe high impact practices that sexual and reproductive health providers can implement to respond to mental health conditions
• Describe at least two resources that sexual and reproductive health providers can use to implement high impact practices to respond to mental health conditions

This activity is pending approval to award contact hours by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., an approved provider with distinction of nursing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.