In-Person Skill Building

Adding to Your Labor Support Box

Earn 4 Nursing CEs | Available in 4- or 5-Hour Formats

In this fun and interactive four to five hour workshop, nurses learn the most effective and helpful emotional and physical support strategies for laboring people. Examining the process of labor through a physiologic lens, nurses learn how to:

• Support the flow of oxytocin
• Lessen stress hormones
• Improve outcomes

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Course Structure

All course attendees participate in three hours of core curriculum, covering proven concepts in labor support, including:

• Illustrate Relaxation, Rhythm, and Ritual for effective labor coping
• What Effective Labor Coping Looks Like and How To Chart It
• Characterize Kinesthetic, Visual, and Auditory Coping Styles
• Predict Difficulties in the Transition from Home to Hospital in Labor
• Interpret Intention and Caring Touch Communication
• Perform Comfort Measures That Work
• Reconstruct Positions for the First Stage of Labor That Alleviate Back Pain and Enhance Labor Progress
• Facilitate Positioning for the Second Stage of Labor That Enhance Descent and Alleviate Dystocia
• Contrast Spontaneous Pushing and Maternal Led Breathing with Directed Pushing in a Hospital Setting
• Model A Strategy to Assist With Women Getting An Urge To Push or Working With Labor Contractions During Second Stage With An Epidural
• Adapt Positioning Strategies that Enhance Labor Progress and prevent both first and second stage dystocia with an epidural
• Using peanut balls to enhance labor progress

And then can choose an additional hour to focus on either:

• Engaging & Including Fathers In Labor, or
• Recognizing the Previously Traumatized Patient & Preventing Further Trauma

Or attendees can choose the five-hour track and go through all three sessions.

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Communication Effectiveness for Birth Professionals

Earn 4 Nursing CEs | Available in 2-, 3-, or 4-Hour Formats

Birth professionals recognize that communication skills can make or break their success, yet they can be difficult to learn without an opportunity to practice in a supportive atmosphere. This session focuses on understanding people’s needs and interests more deeply, enhancing communication between caregiver and client, and utilizing advocacy skills. Multiple strategies are covered that are rooted in communication and negotiation studies, brain based learning research, and the nitty-gritty situations birth professionals face. Attendees are expected to interact and participate with others to gain confidence in using these new tools.

Course Structure:

All course attendees participate in a two-hour session focusing on listening skills to achieve the following learning objectives:

• Explain the role of human beings in assigning meanings to other people’s behaviors.
• Create non-verbal behaviors that broadcast the attitude the speaker wishes to convey.
• Explain the difference between “autobiographical listening” and “true listening”.
• Discern with greater accuracy the facial expressions of other people.
• Illustrate the difficulties inherent in effective communication.
• List three statements to use when collaborating with hospital staff.
• List three ways to build affiliation with medical staff or parents.

And then may choose to:

• Add an additional hour to focus on the internal changes that can be made to become a more effective communicator
• Add an additional hour to focus on negotiation and crisis management skills

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