Your organization can license this one-day workshop designed to help labor and delivery nurses, nurse managers, midwives and staff nurses examine the evidence for labor support, develop and/or refresh labor support skills, and promote best practices for safe, satisfying and healthy birth.
What participants will gain:
Upon completion of the program, learners will have:
- Increased confidence among participants that the supportive care they provide during labor and birth is evidence-based.
- Strategies for implementing evidence-based labor support measures within their practices.
- Increased knowledge of the role they play in improving Joint Commission Perinatal Care Core Measures relating to elective delivery, Cesarean birth, exclusive breastmilk feeding, and consumer satisfaction.
- Increased expertise and skills in providing labor support.
Workshop objectives:
- Discuss birth experience and its significance
- Discuss the nurse’s role in contributing to birth satisfaction and outcomes
- Describe physiologic labor and birth
- Evaluate intrapartum practices according to standards of evidence-based care
- Describe the role of the nurse in promoting physiologic labor and birth
- Practice a wide variety of evidence-based labor support techniques that both enhance labor progress and decrease pain
- Describe evidence-based strategies for supporting a laboring person during second stage
- Describe the nurse’s role in promoting optimal breastfeeding outcomes
- Identify strategies for improving patient satisfaction and implementing perinatal quality improvement measures
Continuing Education credits:
This program has been planned by Lamaze International for 7.50 Lamaze Contact Hours and 7.50 hours of continuing nursing education credit (CBRN). To earn credit, attendees must sign-in, attend the entire workshop, and complete a post-workshop evaluation onsite.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #15932.
All workshops are presented by a qualified Lamaze presenter, who must agree to all the terms and conditions of the Lamaze Continuing Education Policies and Procedures. Workshop presenters (individuals or institutions) are responsible for printing and distributing all workshop materials to participants.