Lamaze Evidence Based Labor Support Skills October 2017

Purpose:  The purpose of this activity is to increase participant skills in the provision of evidence-based labor support to promote a natural, safe and healthy birth.

Target Audience: This workshop will benefit staff nurses, midwives, and other health care providers who care for childbearing women.

Objectives:

• Analyze the nurse’s impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes and on maternal satisfaction
• Describe the role of the nurse in promoting normal, physiologic labor and birth
• Evaluate intra-partum practices according to standards of evidence-based care
• List components of a safe and supportive birth environment
• Practice  a wide variety of non-pharmacologic labor support techniques which both enhance labor progress and decrease pain 
• Adopt evidence-based strategies for supporting a laboring woman during second stage 
• Describe effective practices to promote first attachment and exclusive breast milk feeding.
• Identify strategies to overcome barriers to change

Requirements for successful completion: 

A total of 7 contact hours may be earned as CNE credit for attending the entire workshop and completing a participant feedback form.

Lamaze International is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Participants may also earn 7 Lamaze contact hours upon completion of this activity and the participant feedback form. Partial credit is not available.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #15932 for 8.4 contact hours.

This program is recognized by ICEA for 7.0 contact hours.