Host a Lamaze Evidence-Based Labor Support Workshop for L&D Nurses
Labor and delivery nurses play an essential role in ensuring healthy, satisfying birth and breastfeeding initiation. The Lamaze Evidence-Based Labor Support for Nurses Workshop educates labor and delivery nurses to create the bridge between knowledge and practice.
About The Workshop
This one-day workshop is designed to help labor and delivery nurses, nurse managers, midwives, OBGYNs, 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.
This comprehensive workshop will take your hospital to the next level by offering a connection between what parents learn in class and experience in labor. The complete and up-to-date curriculum package includes:
This comprehensive workshop will take your hospital to the next level by offering a connection between what parents learn in class and experience in labor. The complete and up-to-date curriculum package includes:
- Detailed objectives and content
- Interactive teaching activities
- Digital copy of participant workbook
Earn CNE!Participants earn 7.50 Continuing Nursing Education Credits (CNE) and 7.50 Lamaze Contact Hours
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Improve Critical Labor Support SkillsLabor positions, non-pharmacological comfort measures, shared-decision making, and more!
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What Will Participants 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
What Do Participants Say?
- "I think this course should be a requirement for all nurses"
- "This information is so valuable, and we will be using it everyday at work from now on"
- "This class re-energized my love and belief in our ability to provide a safe, amazing birth experience"
- "I wish we had this class at the beginning of our residency so we could have implemented this from the start"
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. |
Interested In Hosting A Private Workshop?
Your facility is responsible for providing a learning space large enough to accomomdate hands-on comfort measures and audio visual equipment. Additional teaching supplies such as birth balls, peanut balls, massage tools, etc are helpful, but can be provided by the instructor.
Minimum number of participants per class: 7
Minimum number of participants per class: 7