Annual Gravidas at Risk Conference 2026

The event is at Hickory Metro Convention Center in Hickory, North Carolina.

Listed audiences include nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, social workers, educators, and healthcare professionals.

It is most useful for bedside and clinic nurses, nurse midwives and social workers who handle high-risk pregnancies, since the program covers social determinants of health, intimate partner violence, pregnant adolescents and alcohol use during pregnancy, and it addresses both inpatient and outpatient care. Clinicians outside perinatal and maternal-child work, or those wanting only hard procedural training, will get less, because part of the program is given to mindfulness, yoga and provider resilience.

Nurses, social workers and educators at a clinical conference held in a convention center usually wear business casual, such as slacks with a knit top or a neat set of scrubs, plus a cardigan because meeting rooms run cold.