2010 Labor & Delivery: Intensive Caring Essential Skills for Intrapartum Care

Speaker: Cindy Parke CNM, MSN

• Labor & Delivery Nurses
• LDRP & Mother/Baby Nurses
• Antepartum & Postpartum Nurses
• Nurse Midwives, OB Clinic/Office Nurses

“Experience is the Best Teacher” and this course proves it! Join Cindy as she shares her 30+ years experience as a practicing CNM working daily with patients, physicians and nursing colleagues!

This program will maximize your knowledge base and give you essential tools for the intensive and sometimes critical care situations you encounter each and every day in labor and delivery. From admission (antepartum clinic or office nurses) through delivery (nursery, postpartum nurses) Cindy gives you essentials for comprehensive clinical assessments, intervention & daily care!

Following this course you will be able to:

• Review labor physiology and components for effective labor progress.
• Develop effective patient assessment, care and management techniques to evaluate and manage the entire labor process through post-partum.
• Assess and enhance labor progress with physiologic, evidenced based support and management techniques.
• Develop policies/strategies for labor induction and augmentation.
• Recognize and respond to abnormal labor patterns including dystocia.
• Review pain assessment and management in labor including pharmacologic support and nursing care techniques.
• Identify adverse fetal response to labor, causation, clinical observations, interventions and intrauterine resuscitation.
• Recognize a variety of emergent labor situations including: hemorrhage, diabetes and hypertension management concerns and issues.
• Identify normal and abnormal parameters in second stage labor, explore research based physical and mechanical interventions.
• Describe risk factors for shoulder dystocia noting clinical interventions and techniques to  improve outcomes, and decrease liability.
• Describe indicators of stage III-IV labor emergency situations.
• Recognize and respond to abnormal & early warning signs of postpartum complications.

“This is by far the MOST USEFUL Labor & Delivery class
I've ever been to - you inspire us all!”

“I LOVED this class! As the nurse manager of a large OB
department I found this to be the most helpful class I’ve ever
attended! My pen was ‘on fire’ with Cindy’s insight and clinical
suggestions - this was the best conference I’ve been to!”
(Personal quote at the 2006 AWHONN national convention...)

“PRACTICAL knowledge and DEMONSTRATIONS...
at last, I know what to look for, what to do and how to help!”
“Hands down, this is the BEST Labor & Delivery presentation I
have ever attended! Combines just the right amount of high
touch with the high tech units of today’s L&D experience!”