Obstetric Triage and Emergency Care Protocols

Diane J. Angelini, EdD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, is Director of Midwifery at Women and Infants' Hospital and Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology at Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Angelini was founding director of the Nurse-Midwifery Graduate Education programs at the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing and the University of Southern California (USC). She was formerly the Assistant Director of Nursing, Division of OB-GYN-Neonatal Nursing at Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston) and Director of Maternal-Child Nursing at Danbury Hospital (CT). She is an Advanced Nurse Executive, Board Certified. Her publications include 18 peer-reviewed journal articles, 13 non-peer-reviewed publications, including two book chapters; and two books, ""Case Studies in Perinatal Nursing"" and ""Perinatal Nursing."" She is the Senior Editor and Founding Co-Editor of the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, Associate Editor of Journal Watch Women's Health, and past Editorial Consultant and current peer reviewer for the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow of the American College of Nurse Midwives and, by invitation, a member of the International Academy of Nursing Editors. She is a national presenter and consultant in obstetric triage. ||Donna LaFontaine, MD, is the former Director of OB-GYN Triage and Obstetrical Gynecology and Emergency Medicine at Women and Infants' Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her publishing credits include three journal articles and one book chapter, When to Screen in Obstetrics and Gynecology: in Screening Tests for Contraceptive Users. Dr. LaFontaine serves on several hospital committees including Emergency Preparedness, Pain Management, Obstetrics and Gynecology Executive Committee, and Guidelines Committee, all at Women and Infants Hospital. She is a certified Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner and has been directing the Sexual Assault Program at Women and Infants Hospital since 2004. Dr. Lafontaine has received over twenty teaching awards throughout her twenty four year career as a physician.