The intro & ribbon cutting ceremony

We would like to help improve maternal health in the USA. The US has the highest rate of maternal death in developed countries. We would like to tackle that with evidenced based health education. This episode explains the why?

We included our ribbon cutting ceremony (tongue in cheek) after minute 4 for your amusement. 

If you would like to see the video use the link below:

https://youtu.be/bvxoMadktoo

 

Transcript as follows:

Hello, my name is Judith Wafe and I am a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. I have been in the healthcare field for 17 years and I like to help people. It was back in 2005 when I was at the University of Miami that I saw my first birth. I remember it as the patient was laboring all alone without any family. Her first language was not English and I was concerned about how frightening it must be to be completely vulnerable. Her primary nursing team was attentive and helped her as she labored. The attending physician was patient and did not perform any unnecessary interventions.
Ultimately, she had a healthy baby girl. We then scurried off as nursing students, to see another delivery.
However that delivery left an indelible impression on me. Now that I think about it, that is probably the moment when my desire to advocate became concrete and my wish to work in women’s health was solidified.
So why the podcast? If you read the health news headlines, you can see that maternal health is in trouble. The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate in developed countries. And the women at highest risk are African American and Hispanic. It has also been found that 80% of these deaths are avoidable. I will say that again, 80% of deaths are preventable. I started to think about how this number could be reduced and I considered health promotion. I would like to use this podcast as a health education device with the primary aim of getting the best information out there. It will include all things related to pre-conception, pregnancy and postpartum. You can expect evidence based presentations, exploration into cultural practices related to pregnancy, unscripted guest interviews and much more.
We will release at least one podcast per week…Tune in. Our next podcast will be on postpartum depression. We will also use a cliff notes version on postpartum psychosis as there has been a recent event in the news.

Ribbon Cutting
Hello everyone,
Thank you so much everyone for being here and taking time out of your busy schedules. I would like to thank my parents and my husband for believing in me and who have always gone the extra mile with me. So please enjoy the food and the drinks. We have some low calorie snacks, and lets proceed with the ribbon cutting ceremony. Yeah!!!!!!!! Thank you guys…Fourth Trimester NP Podcast.