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Meet the Guests
Lastascia Coleman ARNP, CNM
Lastascia Coleman is a certified nurse-midwife. Her educational background includes obtaining a B.S. in psychology from the University of Iowa, a Masters in Nursing and Healthcare Practice from the University of Iowa and a Masters of Science in Nursing- Nurse-Midwifery from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to clinical practice, she enjoys working on quality improvement projects and teaching medical students and residents. Her academic interests include racial disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality, interdisciplinary education and breastfeeding. Outside of work, she likes spending time with family, reading and cooking.
Lynette Cooper DNP, ARNP, FNP-C
Lynette Cooper is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Educator with a array of experience caring for patients across the lifespan. She is especially passionate about addressing the effects of health disparities on marginalized communities, in general, and Black women and babies, in particular. Her research interests include implicit bias in healthcare, social determinants of health, and reproductive justice
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NJ passed legislation that extended the length of Medicaid 365 days postpartum, there is also a pilot doula program in Camden, NJ. Legislation was also passed to decrease the C-section rates. One of the things that I as a nurse was frustrated with, was the legislature not passing a bill that would require mandatory maternal complication training to staff that cares for moms, such as ED, ICU out patient services- essential trading on recognizing and managing complications. Nationally what are states doing? There also needs to be more BIPOC nurses in L&D, ICU, maternal child etc.
Thank you for the info. If we can get healthcare workers to acknowledge their bias and start acknowledging what is happening in healthcare we can improve outcomes.
Any book recommendations, podcasts you would recommend to medical staff in addition to this one of course?