Raleigh General Hospital
Education Center
(Behind Hospital)
1710 Harper Road
Beckley, WV

Wednesday, May 15, 2024
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Labor and delivery nurses play an essential role in ensuring healthy, satisfying birth, and breastfeeding initiation. The Lamaze Evidence-Based Labor Support for Nurses Workshop educates labor and delivery nurses to create the bridge between knowledge and practice!

• One-day interactive, hands-on curriculum.
• Appropriate for new and experienced nurses.
• Evidence-based skills to support normal physiology of labor, birth and breastfeeding.
• Enhances job satisfaction.
• Hospitals benefit through higher quality measure and patient satisfaction scores.
• Childbearing families can benefit from a healthy and satisfying birth experience.

Upon completion of the program, learners will gain:

• 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.

Presenters Molly McMillion RN, BSN, IBCLC, LCCE, Shauna Lively, EdD, RN LCCE, and Mary Beth Stewart, RN, BSN, RNC-C-EFM, IBCLC, LCCE will lead this one-day event. Their expertise and guidance will boost your confidence while helping develop the skills needed to become a nurturing labor support care provider. Good labor support, including mothers with epidurals, will reduce C-Section rates, according to the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative.

This program has been approved by Lamaze International for 8.0 Lamaze Contact Hours. Lamaze International is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 15932.

This program is being presented with financial assistance as a grant from the West Virginia Department Health and Human Resources