AWHONN Insights Podcast Series

As the leader in perinatal nursing education, AWHONN is stepping into the podcast arena with its 2020 series titled, “AWHONN Insights.” The series will feature leading experts in the field who will share their perspectives on various topics ranging from postpartum hemorrhage to perinatal opioid use disorder. Episodes are available for download on iTunes, Soundcloud and Spotify.

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Podcast 18: Perinatal Bereavement

On this episode, we’ll be discussing perinatal bereavement. To close out Perinatal Bereavement Month and commence our bereavement series, we’re joined by nurse scientist and JOGNN author, Dr. Marianne Hutti.

Podcast 17: National Diaper Need Awareness Week 2022

In this episode, we’ll discuss diaper needs and the Healthy Mom&Baby Diaper Drive. In honor of National Diaper Need Awareness Week, we’re joined by our guest co-host and Healthy Mom&Baby Diaper Drive Consultant, Jessica Hazboun, Joan Culver, Healthy, Mom&Baby Diaper Driver supporter & leader, and Rachel Alston, founder of the PDX Diaper Bank in Portland Oregon.

Podcast 16: The Importance of Human Milk for Neonates

In honor of National Breastfeeding Month and Black Breastfeeding Week, we’ll be discussing the importance of human milk for neonates with Dr. Diane Spatz, Dr. Jill Demirci, and Karen Fugate. We’ll also touch on the ways COVID-19 has impacted breastfeeding practices in the NICU, and review strategies that nurses can implement at their institutions to promote breastfeeding initiation in the NICU and continuation after discharge. This episode is sponsored by our generous partners at Prolacta Bioscience.

Podcast 15:  Celebrating Nurses Week 2022

Join us as we celebrate Nurses Week 2022! We’re be joined by AWHONN President, Dr. Sandy Cesario, AWHONN President Elect, Dr. Shakira Henderson, and AWHONN member, Dr. Shawana Moore of Emory University. Tune in as each of our guests share their personal stories of nursing resilience, and the ways in which they’ll be celebrating Nurses week this year.

Podcast 14:  Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month 

On this episode of AWHONN Insights, we sit down with Dr. Emily Haozous to learn more about the Indian Health Service and the health disparities within Native American and Alaska Native communities.

Podcast 13:  National Diaper Need Awareness Week

On this episode of AWHONN Insights, we’re joined by Jessica Hazboun, RN, BSN, PHN, ICCE, Healthy Mom&Baby Diaper Drive Nurse Consultant, Joanne Samuel Goldblum, CEO of the National Diaper Bank Network, and Troy Moore, Chief of External Affairs at the National Diaper Bank Network.

Tune in as we highlight the Healthy Mom&Baby Diaper Drive and celebrate National Diaper Need Awareness Week with our partners.

We would also like to thank our partner, Huggies, who generously provides the funding for the Healthy Mom&Baby Diaper Drive, through which nurses provide diapers to their most vulnerable patients to ensure they have all of the diapers that they need to stay clean, dry, and healthy.

Podcast 12: Primary Prevention of RSV through Maternal Immunization

On this episode, we’ll be discussing the primary prevention of RSV through Maternal Immunization. We are joined by Dr. Suzanne Staebler, Professor at Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, who will give us an overview of the Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and discuss the current RSV maternal candidate vaccine trials. We will also hear from AWHONN nurse Dr. Lisa Klein, who will share her experiences in treating mothers with RSV.

This podcast is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through a subaward from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Its contents are solely the authors’ responsibility. They do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Podcast 11: Nurses Week

On this episode of AWHONN insights, we sit down with AWHONN CEO, Jonathan Webb, AWHONN President, Cyndy Krening, and AWHONN President Elect, Sandy Cesario, to discuss nursing resiliency and what Nurses Week means to them.

Podcast 10: Respectful Maternity Care

According to the World Health Organization, “many women across the globe experience disrespectful, abusive or neglectful treatment during childbirth in facilities. This constitutes a violation of trust between women and their health-care providers and can also be a powerful disincentive for women to seek and use maternal health care services.” Their recommendations on intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience includes, “the provision of respectful maternity care that maintains women’s dignity, privacy and confidentiality, enables informed choice and continuous support throughout labor and childbirth, and ensures freedom from mistreatment.”

On this episode, we sit down with Dr. Cheryl Larry-Osman, Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist at Henry Ford Hospital, and Dr. Ifeyinwa Asiodu, Assistant Professor at the UCSF School of Nursing, for an in-depth discussion on the respectful maternity care movement. They give us an overview of respectful maternity care, share the ways in which COVID-19 has exacerbated healthcare inequities, and provide our listeners with respectful care strategies that they can implement at their institutions.

Podcast 9: The Joint Commission: New Standards for Perinatal Safety

“Effective January 1, 2021, The Joint Commission has developed two new standards to improve the quality and safety of perinatal care in Joint Commission–accredited hospitals. The new standards require organizations to look at their processes and procedures surrounding the care of women experiencing hemorrhage and severe hypertension/preeclampsia.”

In order to learn more, we are joined today by Dr. Toni Swinton, Division Director of Clinical Education at St. David’s Healthcare, Dr. Jean Salera-Vieira, Director of Clinical Program Development at AWHONN, and Dr. Susan Hale, Manager of Clinical Program Development at AWHONN. We will hear a brief overview of the new Standards, receive tips for nurses and other healthcare providers, and go over the resources that are currently available to help our listeners prepare.

Podcast 8: Lower Extremity Nerve Injury During Childbirth

In early 2020, AWHONN released the Analgesia and Anesthesia in the Intrapartum Period: Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline. Soon after, our Science Team was contacted by Nurse Jennifer Webb, who shared her story of lower extremity nerve injury (LENI) in an effort to bring awareness to this issue, and emphasize the importance of proper position during the intrapartum period.

On this episode, we sit down with Dr. Cheryl Parker – AWHONN Science Team member and Assistant Director of the Program of Nurse Anesthesia at Murray State University, and Jennifer Web – Critical Care Nurse at Texas Health. Tune in to learn more about LENI, and the collaboration that led to the development of AWHONN Practice Brief No. 11 – Lower Extremity Nerve Injury in Childbirth.

Podcast 7: Multimodal Pain Management: Reducing Opioid Use After Cesarean Birth

According to the study, “A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Opioid Consumption after Cesarean Birth,” by Dr. Adriane Burgess, Amy Harris, Julia Wheeling and Roni Dermo, one in 300 opioid naïve women become addicted to opiates after cesarean birth. Also, after cesarean, women are often prescribed more opiates at discharge than necessary, resulting in increased opportunity for diversion.

In order to learn more about this study, we are joined by two of the authors; Dr. Adriane Burgess and Amy Harris, who will share their insights on the effects of the opioid epidemic in the perinatal space and alternative comfort strategies for pain management post-cesarean.

Podcast 6: Virtual Nursing Education: Innovation for the New Normal

With no end in sight for the COVID-19 pandemic, educators of all backgrounds are striving to find virtual and innovative teaching solutions for their students. In the realm of nursing education, there are a few caveats; nurse educators must now find ways to capture the in-person clinical experience in a virtual format while adhering to the specific didactic and clinical competency requirements set by their respective state boards.

On this episode, we will dig deeper into the ups and downs of virtual experiential education with Dr. Joan Edwards, former AWHONN President, Professor at Texas Woman’s University and Director of its Center for Global Nursing, Diego Rivas, a student of Dr. Edwards, and Barry Dye, their former patient. Dr. Edwards, Diego, and Barry will share the ways in which they’ve had to navigate this new normal from the teacher, learner, and patient perspectives.

Podcast 5: The Impact of Implicit Bias in Healthcare

According to the CDC, “Long-standing systemic health and social inequities have put some members of racial and ethnic minority groups at increased risk of getting COVID-19 or experiencing severe illness, regardless of age” (CDC, 2020). This information aligns with the ongoing research conducted by the American Public Media (APM) Research Lab, which has found that Black Americans continue to experience the highest overall COVID-19 mortality rates – at a staggering 69.7 deaths per 100,000 as of July 13, 2020 (APM, 2020). Followed by Indigenous Americans at 51.3, and Pacific Islanders at 40.5 (APM, 2020). The mortality rates continue to climb, as do the disparities. As of July 21, 2020, Black Americans are now dying at a rate of 73.7 deaths per 100,000, a stark contrast to the 32.4 per 100,000 mortality rate for White Americans.
These alarming rates for Black Americans can be attributed to multiple factors, including preexisting health conditions, limited access to resources, racism and implicit bias, stigma, and systemic inequities within the field of healthcare. On this episode, we are joined by Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, President and Founder of the National Birth Equity Collaborative, and Dr. Shawana Moore, AWHONN Member, and Assistant Professor, Program Director and Practitioner at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Crear-Perry and Dr. Moore will share their insights on racism, implicit bias, stigma, and disrespectful care, and provide us with the tools necessary for moving forward.

Podcast 4: Shared Decision Making

As providers, patients, and loved ones continue to make crucial decisions regarding care, the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN), and the National Perinatal Association (NPA), joined together and released a position statement on shared decision making titled, “Mothers with COVID-19 and Their Newborn Infants.” On this episode, we are joined by two of the authors, Dr. Jerry Ballas, president of the NPA and Dr. Tiffany Moore of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and AWHONN President, Rebecca Cypher, who will help us better understand the shared decision making model and its implications in the COVID-19/perinatal space.

Podcast 3: Wellness Tips and Tricks During Covid-19

At a time when self-care has taken a backseat to COVID-19, we sit down with Traci Richards, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC, C-ELBW, and D’Anne Moon MS, CNM, and discuss their tips and tricks for coping with stress, nutrition and overall wellness in their institutions, and at home. This episode continues the conversation from the jointly provided ACNM and AWHONN webinar titled, “From Chaos to Calm: Developing a Self-Care Toolkit for COVID -19 and Beyond.” Traci and D’Anne, who participated in that self-care webinar, share their insights in creating a relaxing environment for inpatient mothers, families, and perinatal care providers.

Podcast 2: Covid-19 in the Perinatal Space

Featuring AWHONN Board members and nurses, Margie Bridges and Dr. Suzanne Baird, discussing ways in which they’re working to combat the spread of COVID-19, ideas that have worked to offset some challenges, and tools appropriate for nurses across our country.

Podcast 1: Simulations in Perinatal Education 
Learn insights from Cathy Jones, MSN, RN-BC, RNC-OB, C-EFM a POEP instructor and Michaela Williams a former POEP learner as they discuss their experiences with implementing AWHONN’s Perinatal Orientation and Education Program (POEP) at their facility