Communication Conundrums: Avoiding mistakes and errors

This presentation will explore common challenges clinicians face including lack of previously established relationships, misaligned surgical or treatment expectations, language and cultural misunderstandings, heightened emotionality, time pressures, family-staff conflict, and fractured teamwork. Impediments to good communication and relationships will be highlighted.

Stress, Cortisol and Infant Health

Studying the links between early environmental factors and infants’ HPA axis, behavioral regulation, and health is important because in the case of negative effects, infants’ future psychological and physical development could be compromised.

Father Inclusiveness: Working with Fathers and their newborn Infants

Dr Kevin Nugent will present findings from a range of studies about our understanding of father’s relationships with their newborn infants. Helping parents meet “the newborn as a person” using a father and family-centred relationship based approach can set the whole family off on a very positive developmental trajectory.

On being a good parent to a seriously ill child

The link between being a good parent and the health of the family will also explored, along with the use of the intervention in critical care and palliative care more widely