Midwifery Pearls of Telehealth

This session is presented by FNU faculty members Dr. Tanya Belcheff, Dr. Cassie Belzer, Dr. Judith Butler, Martha Harvey, Dr. Audrey Perry and Heidi Loomis.

This session will provide an overview of telehealth from a midwifery perspective with special emphasis on the areas of patient engagement, group care, provider satisfaction and best practices for meeting compliance requirements.

At the completion of this session, you will be able to:

State 3 strategies to improve participant engagement in telehealth visits.
Describe 3 strategies to facilitate group prenatal care telehealth practices.
Identify the most common errors made that lead to dissatisfaction or loss of revenue in telehealth.
State 3 best practices for protecting privacy and confidentiality in telehealth visits.

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About CE Credits

This activity is approved for 1.25 contact hour(s) of continuing education by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Activity ID 20074353. This activity was planned in accordance with AANP Accreditation Standards and Policies. This activity’s approval expires on September 30, 2021.

Once you have viewed the session, you must complete the post-test and evaluation at the link below in order to receive credit for your contact hours. If you have questions about completion of the activity or the evaluation form, please contact Eileen.Odonnell@frontier.edu.

COMPLETE POST-TEST EVALUATION

Presenters

Tanya Belcheff, DNP, CNM

Tanya Belcheff is a Certified Nurse Midwife who is currently a full-time instructor as regional clinical faculty at Frontier Nursing University and a staff midwife at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz. Tanya received a BSN from the University of Arizona, MSN in midwifery from the University of New Mexico and DNP from Frontier Nursing University. Tanya has had the opportunity to serve families through a variety of midwifery settings and roles, from full-scope midwife to administration from faculty, preceptor, and consultant. During the recent pandemic, Tanya has been at the forefront of creating virtual clinical simulations and facilitating student learning in telemedicine visits. Tanya is passionate about elevating the status of families by providing innovative, quality, client-centered care. She is a member of ACNM and AABC.

Cassie Belzer, DNP, CNM

Cassie Belzer is a full scope Certified Nurse Midwife. She has been in practice in Bozeman, Montana, since 2012 and has worked as faculty at Frontier Nursing University since 2016. She attended undergrad at Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing and received her associate degree in nursing in 1999. She has practiced in women’s health since then in settings such as infertility, postpartum, labor and delivery, childbirth education, lactation, and management. She attended Frontier Nursing University to achieve her Master of Nursing degree in 2012 and then her Doctor of Nursing in 2016. Cassie is a recipient of the Rita Hillman Scholar award and is a Jonas Scholar. She serves as the Vice President on the American Midwifery Certification Board Exam Committee, is a member of ACNM, on the Advance Practice Leader Board at Bozeman Health, and board member of Roots Family Collaborative.

Judith Butler, DNP, CNM

Judith Butler is an assistant professor at Frontier Nursing University and staff midwife at El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson, Ariz. She received her B.S. with a minor in Spanish from Boston College, MSN in Midwifery from SUNY Stonybrook, and DNP from Frontier Nursing University where she specialized in CenteringPregnancy and Quality Improvement. Her career spans 22 years of full scope midwifery practice with full prescriptive, admitting and discharge privileges – the last 12 years at Tucson’s first birth center and now first Midwifery Center Alongside Unit. After obtaining her DNP in 2013 Judith continued her passion for teaching and joined FNU, first as a Regional Clinical Faculty in California, Arizona, and New Mexico and then as didactic faculty in the DNP Project series mentoring over 200 students through their quality improvement projects. Her focus on quality improvement continued as the first Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s FNU Chapter faculty advisor and was instrumental in forming the FNU IHI student led chapter. Judy has also been the on the AABC Nominating Committee and BOD (currently), ACNM Arizona Affiliate chair and then co-chair, Neonatal resuscitation instructor, clinical preceptor, lead contract negotiator for El Rio CNMs, CenteringPregnancy leader and CenteringPregnancy Steering Committee, and Strong Start coordinator.

Martha Harvey, MSN, CNM, OB/GYN NP

Martha Harvey has been a CNM for 30+ years and has worked full scope Midwifery since graduating from The University of Pennsylvania in 1990. Presently, she works one day a week in a Family Medical Center providing GYN care. She also does per diem and office calls 4-6 times a month in Western New York. Martha lives in a rural area outside of Cobleskill, NY, with her husband and two teenage daughters. Their only neighbors are two horses. This is where Martha feels most comfortable. She loves interacting with the women in the area and now sees the second generation of young women. Martha finds it humbling to go to graduations and weddings and see babies that she “caught.” She is proud to be a nurse-midwife and honored to be working with Frontier Nursing University and part of the profession’s past, present and future.

Audrey Perry, DNP, CNM, CNE

Audrey Perry is the Clinical Director of the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Midwifery programs at Frontier Nursing University. She previously served as the Coordinator for Interprofessional Education, Practice and Collaboration at Reading Hospital, Program Coordinator at Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg campus and Lead Advanced Practice Clinician for Hershey Medical Center, Women’s Health Division. She is a graduate of Frontier Nursing University (DNP), University of Pennsylvania (MSN/CNM/ MEd certificate), Edinboro University (BSN) and Dickinson College (BA).

Heidi M. Loomis, MSN, CNM, CRNP

Heidi Loomis serves clinical students of midwifery and women’s health as regional clinical faculty for Frontier Nursing University. She has practiced clinically in community health centers and in large health care organizations for many years both as a family nurse practitioner and as a certified nurse-midwife. She has attended women in labor at home, in community hospitals, and in tertiary healthcare centers. Additionally, across a variety of settings, she has supported the development of midwifery teams, integration with local community birth partners, precepted student nurse practitioners, student nurse-midwives, and family medicine residents, served as field supervisor for women’s studies students, participated in a Chilean community health education program, contributed to organizational change and participated in an array of quality improvement projects. Heidi is currently a midwifery doctoral student at Thomas Jefferson University with studies focusing on rural maternal health.