Joyce Baughman, RN, BSN
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Joyce Baughman, RN, BSN |
Joyce graduated magna cum laude in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She worked for two years as a staff nurse in the NICU at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. Ms. Baughman began working at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis in 1982, and remains employed there as a staff nurse in the NICU, caring for premature infants and newborns with cardiac anomalies and other congenital health problems. In 1999, she became certified as a Lactation Counselor by the Academy of Lactation, assisting mothers with hospitalized infants in initiating and continuing the lactation process. In addition, Ms. Baughman serves as an assistant in transporting infants requiring extra care from outside hospitals to the NICU at Children's Hospital.
E2
Session Descriptions:
E2
Born Too Soon: Recognizing the Impact a Dream Lost: Encouraging caregiver sensitivity for parents of premature babies and babies born with birth defects, Joyce Baughman, RN addresses ways the health professional team can provide continuity of care while being in-tune to the needs of the family for both the good and bad outcome. Panelists share what was helpful and how their care providers could have been more effective: Heidi Ciepielinski, bereaved mother and author of When a Baby Dies; Representative Kurt Zellers and wife, Kim, parents of 3 babies, 2 of whom were born at 23 and 28 weeks; Representative Karen Klinzing and husband, Bill, parents of 2 babies with birth defects/congenital anomalies and 3 healthy children