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Volume 4
Journal of Pediatric Care
ISSN: 2471-805X
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May 07-08, 2018 Frankfurt, Germany
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International Conference on
Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery
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Edition of International Conference on
Neonatology and Perinatology
Luka Van Leugenhaege, J Pediatr Care, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2471-805X-C2-008
Vulnerable pregnant women in Antwerp
Luka Van Leugenhaege
Artesis Plantijn University College, Belgium
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ulnerability among patients has always been difficult to define. Especially during pregnancy, vulnerability needs extra
attention and care because of the impact and adverse effects onmother and child. As a healthcare professional, it’s imperative
to gain insight into obvious and less obvious characteristics of vulnerability during pregnancy. An interdisciplinary team of
midwives, social workers and nurses mapped the characteristics of vulnerability focussing on pregnancy. They developed a
screening tool as for healthcare workers to determine whether a patient is in need of extra individualised care. The next step
in this research project is to develop a perinatal trajectory to provide adequate care for their specific medical, psychological
and social needs. This abstract offers results of a pilotstudy conducted in Antwerp to test and adjust the screening tool and an
overview of different trajectories that exist to provide care for women in this situation.
Biography
Luka Van Leugenhaege has completed her Bachelor’s degree in Midwifery in 2012 from the University College Artesis Antwerp, Belgium. She worked as a Midwife
at the Fertility Clinic of GZA St. Augustinus Wilrijk. She graduated as a Master of Science in Nursing and Midwifery in 2014. In September 2016, she got the
opportunity to teach and conduct research at the Artesis Plantijn University College, Antwerp. Alongside she started working as an Assistant at the University of
Antwerp. On behalf of the University she started participating in a local network to help poor pregnant women get the medical and psychosocial help they need,
called PANZA.
luka.vanleugenhaege@ap.be