REGISTRATION FOR THIS CONFERENCE IS CLOSED. WE ARE AT CAPACITY.

Medication-Assisted Treatment
for Opiate Dependence During Pregnancy

February 7, 2012
Healthtrax Fitness and Wellness Center
405 Hurffville-Crosskeys Road
Sewell, NJ 08080

Objectives

  1. Identify at least 5 complications for women who abuse substances and how they can be prevented.
  2. Describe the induction and stabilization phases for methadone and burprenorphine.
  3. Describe the physiology of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and a management strategy to minimize.

Agenda

  • 4:30-5:20 pm -Registration and Light Dinner
  • 5:20-5:30 pm -Welcome
  • 5:30-7:30 pm -Medication Assisted Treatment for Opiate Dependence During Pregnancy
    William Lorman, PhD, MSN, PMHNP-BC,CARN,
    Chief Clinical Officer, LIVENGRIN FOUNDATION, INC.
  • 7:30-7:45 pm -Evaluations/Adjourn

Accreditation

Participants who complete the program will be awarded
2.25 Nursing Contact Hours by the Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative (SNJPC).

The Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative is an Approved Provider of Continuing Nursing Education by NJSNA, an Accredited Approver by The American Nurses Credentialing Center's COA. NJSNA Approval Number P106-6/2009-2012.

Disclosures: The faculty and planners have no vested interest in the content of this continuing nursing education activity to disclose. Dinner is provided by Weisman Children's Rehabilitation Hospital, no other commercial support or non-commercial sponsorship was provided for this continuing nursing education activity. There will be no non-FDA approved medications or devices discuss.