Recording:

Topic: GA Affiliate Meeting

Start Time : Sep 30, 2021 06:00 PM

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Barbora Snuggs’s bio:

Barbora was born in Czechoslovakia and immigrated to the United States at 10 years of age. She obtained her Baccalaureate degree in nursing from Kennesaw State University in 1995. After working for many years as a nurse in Labor & Delivery, she continued her education at Emory University, completing her Master’s degree in midwifery in 2005. She practices midwifery with the Atlanta area. Barbora continued her education and obtained a DNP from Vanderbilt University and started teaching as an Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of North Georgia.

Barbora’s focus of her doctorate work stemmed from her passion for grieving mothers that she cared for while in private practice. Barbora and her committee developed a clinical guideline for midwifery care, focusing on postpartum women who delivered term stillborn babies and were delivered by midwives.

Whether hiking, jogging, swimming, or traveling, Barbora loves to spend time with her husband, John, her three adult children and her daughter-in-law, and her two Shih Tzus, Dixie and Molli.

Rebecca Colemans’ bio:

Rebecca Coleman began her nursing career working in Labor and Delivery. She spent several years primarily in labor and delivery before changing hospitals to become part of a LDRP unit. The change allowed her to care for antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and gynecology patients. She is certified in Inpatient Obstetric Nursing, Electronic Fetal Monitoring, and as a Certified Clinical Nurse Educator. She also teaches both the AWHONN Intermediate and Advanced Fetal monitoring classes. She is currently an Assistant Professor for the department of nursing.

 DNP, Nursing Practice, Grand Canyon University

 MSN, Nursing, South University

 BSN, Nursing, Georgia Baptist College of Nursing

 ASN, Pre-Nursing, Reinhardt College

Dr. Coleman’s doctorate work focused on education and access for the Tdap vaccine, concentrated on rural, low-income areas. This focus was motivated by her observations of patients’ challenges to receive the aforementioned vaccine. Some of these challenges included:

• Patients had a difficult time getting to their scheduled OB appointment

• The vaccine was not offered in the OB office that serviced the hospital

• Patients were redirected to other facilities in search of the vaccine; not easy access

• Lack of education pertaining to the Tdap vaccine