Lamaze Evidence-Based Labor Support 

Wheeling Hospital
1 Medical Park
Wheeling, WV 26003
Auditorium B
(Main entrance, elevator to basement, turn right then immediate left.  The auditorium is the first left at the end of the hallway).

Friday, August 23, 2024 

 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

• Hands on labor support techniques
• Bring tools for labor & labor charts back to your hospital
• EBLS Workbook will be furnished.

Registration is complimentary and lunch will be provided.

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.