Conference Corner

2022 Virginia Organization of Nurse Executives & Leaders (VONEL), Richmond, VA

Deirdre Rea, DNP, MSN, PMHRN-BC was accepted to present her poster at the 2022 VONEL Conference. Her IRB approved project was titled A Review of the Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Mental Health Emergency Department Utilization in SW Virginia. Resilience and Reinvention was the conference theme. Deirdre is the Director at Connect, a service that offers a variety of mental health resources for the community.

2022 Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Convention, Denver, CO

Danielle Liddle, DNPs, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM presented her project Effects of Labor Support Education on Nursing Knowledge, Confidence, and Cesarean Sections at the AWHONN convention in June. Danielle works at CNRV in the Birthplace. Her project was also accepted by the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN) to be published in a future issue.