DATES
Feb. 25-26
July 28-29
Sept. 29-30
LOCATION
Mercy Central Campus
East Tower Conference Center
th
1111 6 Ave.
Des Moines, Iowa 50314
FEE
$400/Early Bird $360
(Registered and Paid 30 days
before workshop)
To register, please call
(515) 243-2584 or visit
http://www.mercydesmoine
s.org/about-mercy/classesscreenings.
2016 Professional Childbirth Educator Workshop
International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA)
Presenter: Tamela Hatcher, IAT, ICCE, ICD, LCCE, M.A.Ed, BSE, Childbirth Education &
Doula Services
Accreditation: Nurses will be awarded 1.92 CEU Iowa Board of Nursing Approved
Provider #17. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be given.
For any questions, please contact Tamela J. Hatcher at (515) 358-5060 or
thatcher@mercydesmoines.org.
Purpose: This workshop will provide hands on education for providing physical and
emotional support to birthing women and their families. Attending one two-day
workshop will be one step towards ICEA Birth Professional Childbirth Education
Certification. This course will allow the participant to practice and demonstrate
labor–enhancing comfort measures, understand the physical and emotional
progression of labor, identify the impact that childbirth educators have on the lives
of families served.
Intended Audience: Individuals interested in pursuing a career as a doula and/or
nurses and health care professionals working in the Mother Baby Unit.
Objectives: At the completion of the course the participant will be able to:
1. Identify healthy birth practices
2. Describe the scope of practice for Childbirth Educators
3. Discuss the Dynamics of group learning in childbirth education.
4. Demonstrate teaching strategies to facilitate decision-making skills
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List teaching methods and strategies for the childbirth education class
Discuss the use of props to support a childbirth class presentation
Describe the fear-tension-pain concept
Discuss three healthy lifestyle changes in pregnancy
List the benefits of creating a birth plan.
Describe basic emotional and developmental issues associated with pregnancy and birth.
Demonstrate relaxation, breathing, positions and massages techniques for labor and birth
List four main hormones that influence labor and their action.
List possible, pre-labor and positive signs of labor
Describe emotional factors that influence the process of labor and birth
Describe the stages of labor-both the physical process and the most common emotional responses to
each stage
Compare and contrast pain and suffering
List comfort measures and describe their appropriate use
List labor coping skills and describe their appropriate use
Describe non-pharmacologic forms of pain relief (including risks, benefits and alternative)
Describe pharmacologic pain relief (including risks, benefits and alternatives) and the doula’s role when these
are used.
Describe the benefits of skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth
List at least five short-and-long term benefits of breastfeeding
Distinguish between postpartum blues and postpartum depression
Demonstrate basic curriculum development
Agenda
Day 1
8:30-9 a.m.
9-10:30
10:30-10:40
10:40 a.m-12:10 p.m.
12:10-12:40
12:40-1:40
1:40-2:40
2:40-2:50
2:50-4:50
4:50-5
5-6
Objectives Review, and Information about the day
Objective 1: Dynamics of Group Learning
Break
Objective 2: Teaching Skills for the Childbirth Educator
Break
Objective 3: Teaching Healthy Lifestyles
Objective 4: Labor the Process
Break
Labor the Process (continued)
Break
Objective 5: Relaxation and Breathing for Labor
Day 2
9-11 a.m.
11-11:10
11:10 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
12:10-12:40
12:40-2:40
2:40-2:50
2:50-3:50
3:50-4:50
5-5:50
5:50-6
Objective 6: Comfort Measures, Labor Support
Break
Comfort Measures, Labor Support (continued)
Break
Objective 7: Second Stage
Break
Objective 8: Birth, Postpartum and Breastfeeding
Objective 9: Teaching from a Risk Benefit View
Objective 10: Curriculum Development
Questions, Review and Evaluation
Accreditation: Nurses will be awarded 1.92 CEU Iowa Board of Nursing Approved Provider #17. Full attendance is
required. No partial credit will be given.
For any questions, please contact Tamela J. Hatcher at (515) 358-5060 or thatcher@mercydesmoines.org.