Comfort Measures for L&D Nurses Workshop by Evidence Based Birth®

Are you  an L & D nurse who wishes you had more tools in your toolbox to help keep patients comfortable during labor?

By attending Comfort Measures for Labor and Delivery Nurses, you will not only get hands-on practice with comfort measures skills, but you’ll also learn how you can overcome barriers to providing comfort measures on your unit! 

All nurses who register at the Professional level or higher will earn 3.5 nursing contact hours, and those who register as Super Users will receive a Comfort Measures Toolkit to take back to your unit and teach to your peers. Come enjoy an evening of demonstrations, discussion, and networking with L & D nurses from all over Des Moines/Central Iowa. 

This Comfort Measures Workshop is taught by Katie Nyberg, CLD, CPD, CNPE, CLE, CPST, and Evidence Based Birth® Instructor. We designed this workshop specifically for Labor and Delivery nurses who are looking to add to their labor support knowledge and skills. However, local doulas, midwives, and childbirth educators are also encouraged to register!

Contact Hours

By attending the Comfort Measures for L&D Nurses workshop and completing an online evaluation, you will earn a certificate for 3 contact hours from Evidence Based Birth®, a continuing education provider for the Kentucky Board of Nursing # 7-0081. Nursing contact hours can be applied to most childbirth educator and doula certifications, as well as the Certified Professional Midwife credential. 

Learning Objectives

  1. Discuss the evidence on comfort measures
  2. Demonstrate a variety of comfort measures
  3. Discuss how we can overcome barriers to providing comfort measures

 

Instructor

This class is taught by Katie Nyberg, CLD, CPD, CLE, CNPE, CPST. She has been a part of the central Iowa birth community since 2010 and has also served leadership positions at several international birth organizations. She is a current faculty and curriculum writer for CAPPA (Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association) and is an official Evidence Based Birth® Instructor. 

Katie is excited to bring this class to Iowa after attending hundreds of births where Evidence Based Care is not the norm. Expecting parents are not being offered true informed decision making and are not being respected for their choices. It’s time to make a change! This class empowers professionals to make a difference right away.

 

Fees

  • Basic Ticket- audit only (no contact hours) ($129)  
  • Professional Ticket– certificate for 3.5 nursing contact hours ($149) 
  • Super User Ticket ($189)– certificate for 3.5 nursing contact hours, lanyard and flash drive loaded with the “Comfort Measures Teaching Toolkit” that includes lesson plans and handouts with permission to teach lessons to your peers, 30 day free trial to the Professional Membership at Evidence Based Birth® with access to 24 additional contact hours, and a laminated “Pocket Guide to Comfort Measures” 

Additional info about the “Super User” ticket: We are encouraging each local hospital to sponsor at least two nurses to become Comfort Measures Super Users! Your Nurse Super Users will be able to teach their peers how comfort measures can decrease the Cesarean rate, decrease patient pain levels, and increase patient satisfaction. Having at least 2 nurses trained as Super Users will make it easier for them to demonstrate to the other L & D nurses on their unit what they learned at the workshop. 

Super Users will receive a Comfort Measures Toolkit on a flash drive, which will be loaded with:

  • Lesson plans on:
    • Sending patients home in early labor
    • Hydrotherapy for pain relief during labor
    • Positive language that decreases patient pain perception
    • Upright positions during labor for improving birth outcomes
  • Full-length printer-friendly PDFs with the Evidence on Fetal Monitoring, Birthing Positions, Eating and Drinking during Labor, and Protecting the Perineum
  • One-page handouts to share with patients covering: Birthing Affirmations, Birthing Positions, Comfort Measures in Early Labor, Eating and Drinking during Labor, Fetal Monitoring, and Nitrous Oxide

Questions? Contact Katie@theiowababylady.com or 515-473-2737. 

Refund policy: Tickets are non-refundable, but may be transferred to other attendees or to future EBB workshops taught by Katie Nyberg. 

Upcoming Classes

  • July 17, 2024 from 6-9:30pm in Waukee, IA

Learn more about this workshop here: EBB 77 – Nurses Can Make Labor More Comfortable – Evidence Based Birth®

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Comfort Measures for L& D Nurses by Evidence Based Birth Registration

After registering, you will receive an email confirmation along with important details about your training. The location will be determined based on the size of our group and will be shared in an email closer to your class date. It will be in the Waukee/West Des Moines area.

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• Basic (attendance only) • Professional (attendance + contact hours) • Super User (attendance + contact hours + Pocket Guide + Flash Drive and Lanyard with curriculum to take back to your unit and teach other nurses + 30-day trial in the EBB Professional Membership)
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