Labor and delivery nurses play an essential role in ensuring healthy, satisfying birth and breastfeeding initiation. The Lamaze Labor Support Workshop educates labor and delivery nurses and midwives to create the bridge between knowledge and practice!
Bring our Labor Support Workshop to your facility to:
- Earn 7.50 Continuing Nursing Education Credits (CNE) and 7.50 Lamaze Contact Hours.
- Improve critical labor support skills, including labor positions, non-pharmacological comfort measures, shared decision-making and more.
- Identify strategies to improve patient satisfaction and perinatal quality improvement measures.
- Boost your confidence knowing that the supportive care you are providing during labor is evidence-based.
- Increase your knowledge and understanding of the role you play in improving Joint Commission Perinatal Care Core Measures relating to elective delivery, cesarean birth, and chest feeding.
About the Workshop
Host a one-day Lamaze workshop at your facility to equip labor and delivery nurses, managers, midwives, and staff with evidence-based labor support skills. A Lamaze presenter will lead interactive training, including activities, workbooks, goal-setting, and case studies for practical learning.
Contact education@lamaze.org to learn more about bringing this workshop to your facility!
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.
Why Lamaze Labor Support?
The Lamaze Labor Support workshop was first developed in 2013 and we have continued to update the content to reflect new research, best practices, and current maternity care data. Over the last decade, our participants have consistently provided positive feedback that demonstrates the importance of this training and how they are able to use it in their day-to-day work.
Testimonials
"I think this class should be a requirement for all nurses."
"This information is so valuable and we will use it every day 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."
Darcie Robert, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, C-ONQS, LCCE
Darcie has dedicated her career to improving the lives of women and children, serving as bedside labor & delivery nurse for over a decade, nurse educator in L&D and postpartum, perinatal quality specialist, and maternal program manager in both high acuity and community hospitals in Central Texas. Darcie currently spends her time as a perinatal consultant helping hospitals across the country improve maternal and infant outcomes. Certified in inpatient obstetrics, electronic fetal monitoring, and obstetric and neonatal quality and safety, Darcie is passionate about building communities through empowering and educating nurses, women, and families. As a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, she is a subject matter expert in physiologic birth and labor support. She is the co-leader of her local AWHONN chapter and a Lamaze volunteer. When she’s not surrounding herself with strong women and babies, she immerses herself with her three incredible daughters, whom she knows one day will make this world shine so much brighter.
“The Lamaze Evidence-Based Labor Support Workshop isn’t just another class. I’ve watched new nurses grow into patient advocates and veteran nurses remember the joy in birth in those eight hours. This is where the science, passion, and art combine to protect the future of our communities in their most vulnerable moments.”
Meghan Hebert, MSN-CNM, CLC, LCCE
Meghan is a Certified Nurse Midwife with a Master's in Nursing from Frontier Nursing University, passionately committed to empowering women throughout childbirth. With over a decade of experience as an OB nurse and as a childbirth educator, she brings deep knowledge and compassion to her dual roles as a practicing Midwife and Assistant Professor of Nursing at a local university. A certified Lamaze childbirth educator and lactation counselor, Meghan is especially committed to improving labor support practices within clinical settings. She has taught numerous nurses through the Evidence-Based Lamaze Labor Support Workshop, equipping them with the skills to support physiologic birth, and has contributed to updating the curriculum to reflect the latest best practices. As an elected board member of Lamaze International, she advocates for high-quality childbirth education and participates in legislative efforts to uphold women’s rights during childbirth. Meghan’s mission is to transform birth culture by educating both patients and professionals, fostering strength, autonomy, and pride in the birthing experience.
“Most of the nurses come into the workshop intimidated by how to support a laboring mother, but they leave reinvigorated and enthusiastic to put their knowledge to use. To see nurse's perspectives change throughout the course of the workshop is amazing to witness, but to hear patients speak to how valuable the content they were able to put into practice, is invaluable.”