Labor and delivery nurses play an essential role in ensuring healthy, satisfying birth and breastfeeding initiation. The Lamaze Evidence-Based Labor Support Workshop educates labor and delivery nurses to create the bridge between knowledge and practice. Continuing Nursing Education Credits (CNE) and 7.50 Lamaze Contact Hours are awarded.

90 %

All West Virginia hospitals have participated in the EBLS course by hosting the workshop or by sending their intrapartum nurses to a nearby session.

Workshop Benefits

  • 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.

“Nurses are very excited to attend this workshop where we practice hands-on techniques for easing labor and achieving vaginal delivery. We use a wide variety of tools and techniques such as aroma therapy, rebozo techniques, massage, and positioning with birth and peanut balls. These techniques can make all the difference!”

-Shauna Lively, EdD, RN, LCCE
Director, RMOMS Project
Board of Directors, Lamaze International

Attend a Workshop!

If you are interested in attending a workshop, or you would like additional information, please contact:

Mary Beth Stewart
mbstewart@wvperinatal.org