Comfort Measures for Labor & Delivery Nurses
Virtual Experience materials are in the Google Drive.
Learning Objectives for the Comfort Measures Workshop:
- Discuss the evidence on comfort measures
- Demonstrate a variety of comfort measures
- Discuss how we can overcome barriers to providing comfort measures
Information:
You will need to budget about 6.5 hours to study to teach this class, not including time that you will spend going over the Instructor Manual.
- The Instructional Video and Demonstration Videos further down on this page (2.5 hours, total)
- Protecting the Perineum (1 hour 8 minutes)
- EBB Podcast episodes #8, 18, and 39 (55 minutes)
- Acupressure videos (13 minutes)
- Q & A about Acupressure with Dr. Kate Levett (bottom of this page; 55 minutes)
For additional training on the specific comfort measures you’ll be teaching, listen to the following EBB podcasts:
- EBB #16 Positioning and Movement
- EBB #17 Upright Birthing Positions
- EBB #20 Water Immersion
- EBB #25 Fetal Monitoring (one of the big “barriers” to comfort measures)
- EBB #34 Massage
If you don’t listen to podcasts, but prefer to read, you can search for these topics on the EBB Blog page
Continuing Education
- This seminar is worth 3.5 nursing contact hours from the Kentucky Board of Nursing. Nursing contact hours can typically be applied to most doula and childbirth educator certifications, as well as the CPM credential.
- When you start teaching, you will submit for your participants to obtain their contact hours. Use the Post Workshop link to submit.
Instructional Video
Training starts at 30ish seconds into the video!
Part 1: Group Workshop
Recorded March 2020, the weekend before the pandemic shut down.
Part 2: Stations + Role Plays
Additional Training Video: Q & A with Dr. Kate Levett about Acupressure