Artifact 13: peer-reviewed presentation

Maternal-child wellness

During the Guidelines to Intervention course, two NYU classmates and myself developed an original frame of reference entitled "From NICU to Community: Supporting Role Transition in New Mothers of a Medically Complex Child". Combining our collective interests in women's health, wellness and role transition, we identified a need to develop a theoretical basis for a treatment approach to address this unique phenomenon.

This frame of reference is intended for women during role transition to new mother of a medically complex and/or premature infant requiring increased medical care. More specifically, it addresses the transition from neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to home environment within the first month after discharge.

The content of our frame of reference was adapted into a poster and accepted as a peer-reviewed poster presentation for the AOTA 2020 conference. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic we were unable to present. However, this has also given us the time to further consider future opportunities and directions for collaboration, such as presenting at virtual or state-level conferences.