Supporting Childbearing Families

09/01/21 • 23 min

Two public health nurses will share the challenges and successes they’ve experienced while supporting childbearing age families. We’ll learn about assessing, planning, and implementing a prenatal group program for new immigrants. We’ll also discuss working closely with postpartum families to meet their breastfeeding and infant feeding goals. Both of our guests demonstrate how developing trust, and connecting on the client’s terms, are key to making a positive difference in the lives of new and soon-to-be parents!

Stories from the Field is hosted by Maureen Cava and Susan Blue. This series is produced by Katie Jensen and Sabrina Brathwaite of Vocal Fry Studios for the University of Toronto Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing.

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Frontline in a Pandemic

The COVID pandemic has been an unprecedented time for public health, and nurses stepped up with passion and commitment in a big way. Our guest describes how nurses facilitated contact tracing, set up large scale vaccination clinics, and provided vaccines to people of all ages, in multiple settings. The stories you’ll hear offer a glimpse into what public health nurses in Ontario faced during COVID, and how they embraced the challenge.

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Community Campaigns & School Health

This episode will introduce listeners to two different areas of public health nursing practice: leading a population health promotion campaign, and working in a school health role. We’ll learn about the development of a large-scale campaign to support effective parenting; an example of how public health nursing can influence the entire population. Listeners will also hear how the school public health nurse works with students, teachers, principals, and parents to support the physical and emotional health of children and youth. Each nurse will offer a peek into a typical work day. While their roles are different, similar skills in collaboration, advocacy and innovation are foundational to their work.