General Session: The Racial Disparity in Adverse Birth Outcome: Putting the Spotlight on Structural Racism (GSII)

Friday, September 16, 2022

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT

Location: Concorde A/B

CE: 1

NCC Codes:
RNC-NIC: 4
NNP-BC: 5
RNC-LRN: 5
NCC Subspecialty Certifications:
C-ONQS (Code 28)
Pharmacology Credits: 0

Keynote Speaker(s)

James W. Collins, Jr., MD, MPH

Medical Director, NICU
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

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Slides

Moderator(s)

Kristin Jean Howard, DNP, APRN,NNP-BC

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
Children's Hospital Colorado
Centennial, Colorado, United States

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Adrienne Isaacs, MSN, NNP-BC

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
SCL Health

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Despite dramatic improvements in neonatal intensive care since the 1960s, the African-American: non-Latinx White infant mortality rate ratio increased from 1.6 to 2.2. Preterm birth is the primary determinant of infant survival, and African-American infants remain more than twice as likely to be born < 34 weeks compared to White infants. This presentation will highlight the presenter’s research team’s published studies on the impact of race as a social construct, thus addressing the impact of racism in its various forms, on birth outcome. As clinicians in the NICU, neonatal nurses will be better prepared to make a meaningful difference in parents’ lives during this time of crisis by relating to them with understanding and respect. Moreover, as members of society, neonatal nurses will be encouraged to support initiatives which address the social and economic inequities that are the root cause of birth outcome disparities.

This session was supported by a generous grant from Pampers Professional.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this presentation, the learner will be able to:

Recognize that Black race is a risk factor for poor birth outcome among US-born but not foreign-born women
Identify structural racism as a force determining the distribution of African-American women’s exposure to neighborhood poverty
Explain the relationship between African-American women’s early-life exposure to neighborhood poverty and adverse birth outcome
Explain the relationship between African-American women’s lifelong exposure to interpersonal racial discrimination and preterm birth
Explain the relationship between father’s socioeconomic position and adverse birth outcome