• 7 Lamaze Contact Hours
• 7 Nursing Contact Hours 
• 7 ICEA Contact Hours

Lamaze Evidence-Based Nursing Care: Labor Support Skills is a one-day workshop designed for nurse managers, midwives, staff nurses and other health care providers who care for women. The goal of the workshop is to provide education, training and support for labor and delivery nurses to increase labor support skills and the use of nonpharmacologic pain management strategies.

Hospitals can help achieve the Joint Commission goal of reducing preventable maternal deaths while also making progress toward Joint Commission core measures by training staff in the critical practices for a safe and healthy birth.

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 the program, the labor and delivery nurse will be able to:

• List components of a safe and supportive birth environment;
• Analyze the nurses’ impact on maternal birth satisfaction;
• Evaluate intrapartum practices according to standards of evidence-based care;
• Provide a wide variety of nonpharmacologic 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; and
• Identify strategies to overcome barriers to change.