Supporting Your Pregnant Patient - Live Webinar

About the event

This course is provided by College Education and Training, a business unit of Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand Inc.

This webinar will cover the management of commonly encountered conditions in pregnancy, such as nausea and vomiting, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and depression.

Pregnancy-related considerations such as changes to drug handling (pharmacokinetics) and use of complementary and alternative products (CAPs) will also be discussed. Participants will be provided with tips for answering enquiries about pregnant patients and useful resources to use.

Presented By:

Tracey Borrie

Tracey Borrie is an experienced medicines information pharmacist at Christchurch Medicines Information Service. She also works in primary care for a PHO providing education for health professionals; as well as doing MURs, MTAs and auditing in the community. Tracey has a particular interest in deprescribing, recently being involved in a research project investigating medication reviews with use of a prognostic indicator in aged residential care. Prior to specialising in Medicines Information, Tracey worked as a clinical pharmacist in hospitals around New Zealand, England and Ireland; and gained her Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy from University of Otago.

Learning Objectives;

Upon completion of all activities, you will be able to:

• Describe the management of pregnancy-related conditions, nausea and vomiting (PNV) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GORD)
• Describe the management of depression in pregnancy and evaluate risks against benefits of pharmacotherapy
• Evaluate the risks and benefits of complementary and alternative products (CAPs) in pregnancy
• Identify resources suitable for pharmacy practice related to pregnancy
• Describe pharmacokinetic changes in pregnancy
• Describe the process for answering pregnancy-related medicines information queries in practice.

PLEASE NOTE: ONLY 500 PARTICIPANTS CAN ATTEND THE LIVE EVENT, SO REGISTER NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.

If you are unable to make the live event, a recording will be supplied on the course page shortly afterwards.

Non Member Registration

Non PSNZ members can register for this event. Please note you will need to register as a user on the PSNZ website before you can register to attend the event. Look for the "New user? Register now" option at the bottom of the Login screen.

Cancellation and Refund Policy:

Payment must be received before your course materials will be made available to you. Confirmation and how to access the course materials will be forwarded to your preferred email address once your registration has been processed.

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Cancellation more than seven days before the webinar:

A full refund is available. This amount may be refunded, or transferred to another course or another person.

Cancellation between two and seven days before the webinar:

A 50% refund is available. This amount may be refunded, or transferred to another course or another person.

Cancellation the day before, the day of, or after the webinar:

No refund available.

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Declaration:

By enrolling in this training, you are confirming that all work undertaken within this training programme and assessment answers are your own. If there are grounds to believe that cheating or plagiarism has occurred, we will investigate and your work may be disallowed and you will be unable to complete the training.