Mother-Friendly Evidenced-Based Labor Support for Nurses
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN November 11, 2009
Please contact Michele Peterson at 703.350.2056 or email michele@jmbirthconsultants.com to schedule a workshop at your hospital.
For online workshop registration and payment information CLICK HERE.
7.0 Contact Hours (continuing education) applied for through ICEA Workshop schedule: 8am to 4:30pm, one day Fee: $175 (discount ($125) if you register before November 1, 2009) Instructor: Marilyn Hildreth, RN, IBCLC, LCCE, FACCE, ICCE, IAT-CE-D, CD (DONA)
We are pleased to announce Mother-Friendly Evidenced-Based Labor Support for Nurses, a one-day workshop designed for labor nurses, nurse managers, midwives, and other health care providers who care for laboring women. The goal of this program is to provide education, training, and support for labor nurses to promote normal birth, and to increase labor support skills and the use of non pharmacologic pain management strategies.
Potential benefits for the nurse include increased expertise in labor support skills and increased job satisfaction. Additional potential benefits are increased patient satisfaction, improved maternal/child well being, and reduced incidence of adverse outcomes including cesarean sections.
Upon completion of this program, the labor nurse will be able to:
List components of normal labor and birth according to the World Health Organization.
Analyze the nurse's impact on maternal birth satisfaction.
List components of a safe and supportive birth environment.
Evaluate intra partum practices according to standards of evidence-based care.
Provide a wide variety of non pharmacologic labor support techniques which both enhance labor progress and decrease pain.
Model effective labor support within the childbirth team.
Utilize techniques associated with decreased need for medical intervention and lower cesarean rates.
Identify strategies to overcome barriers to change.
"AWHONN maintains
that continuously available labor support by a professional registered nurse is
a critical component to achieve improved birth outcomes."
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AWHONN Professional Position Statement (April 2000)
"Certification in labor support techniques should be required at least
as often as certification for EFM. In addition, research comparing the
cost-benefit ratio of all the costs of EFM, maintenance, purchase, and training
of staff should be compared with the costs incurred and savings derived from
one-to-one labor support using Evidence-Based Practice to Improve Intrapartum
Care."
