Collaboration for Maternal

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Collaboration for Maternal Newborn
Health Leads Susan Harris, MD Lee Saxell, RM, MA
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• Strategic Teaching Fund Initiative through the
  Department of Family Practice
• Initiative designed to increase communication and
  interdisciplinary practice between all maternity
  care providers to address maternity care of the
  future

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• Members include family physicians, obstetricians,
  nurses, midwives, researchers and doulas.
• Education, Research, Advocacy and Sustainability
• http//cmnh.ca/

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CMNH

• Currently six projects underway
• Developed an interprofessional team that meets to
  review project progress and provide direction to
  the smaller project groups on a regular basis
• Team consists of

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CMNH Projects

• Fir Square Interprofessional Student Doula
  Program
• Interprofessional Rural Forum
• Interprofessional Intrapartum Workshop Training
• Comparison of an Interprofessional Clerkship
• Interprofessional Breastfeeding and Infant Sleep
  Workshop
• Web-based Post Partum Hemorrhage Training Module

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Fir Square Student Doula Program

• Program provides Doula training and education
  about substance use and violence to midwifery,
  medical, and nursing students
• Students are matched with a woman in the Fir
  square program to provide them with labour
  support
• Students work in interprofessional call teams to
  provide support to the woman throughout their
  labour and postpartum period

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Interprofessional Rural Forum

• Pilot of an interprofessional community forum
  which integrates medical, nursing, and midwifery
  students with community residents to help foster
  discussion on the role of birth in their
  community
• Forum leaders, students, caregivers and community
  members will meet for a half day discussion about
  maternity care issues in their community and then
  engage in a day and a half of skills upgrade for
  caregivers

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Intrapartum Workshop Training

• Continues the work of an Interprofessional
  teaching group which has been conducting an
  Normal Labour and Birth Workshop for midwifery,
  medical, and nursing students at UBC
• The workshop was developed and is collaboratively
  taught by Midwives, Family Physicians,
  Obstetricians, Nurses, and Doulas, to help foster
  an interest in obstetrics and maternity care

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Intrapartum Workshop Training

• This project is developing a package and CD ROM
  of the workshop in order to expand the program
  and offer it to other sites around the province

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Comparison of a Clerkship

• Questionnaire designed to evaluate the influence
  of different teaching strategies in an
  interprofessional obstetrics and gynaecology
  clerkship. Evaluating whether these teaching
  strategies influence the selection of maternity
  care as part of their professional practice
• Questionnaire will be administered at six medical
  schools across Canada

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Breastfeeding Sleep Workshop

• Promotes the role of the health care team in the
  management of successful breastfeeding and the
  encouragement of healthy infant sleep practices
• Workshop participants learn through collaborative
  learning strategies involving case studies and
  best practices

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Breastfeeding Sleep Workshop

• Electronic module of the workshop will be made
  available for use in other teaching sites and to
  providers of maternity care in communities
  throughout the province

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Web-Based PPH Training Module

• Offer alternative education tools in light of the
  shortage of preceptor sites for training of
  maternity care providers in BC
• Development of a computer module which will help
  train caregivers to work in interprofessional
  teams to recognize and manage postpartum
  hemorrhage
• This module will be made available to staff of
  all disciplines at BC Womens Hospital and will
  be web-based for access by others

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Overall

• Projects have been very well received
• Students have been particularly enthusiastic and
  have expressed great interest in having the
  educational projects run again next year
• Projects are helping to raise awareness of
  interprofessional patient-centered care and
  helping educate the next generation of caregivers
  in collaborative methods