High Touch Nursing Care During Labor

Providing high-touch care in a high-tech delivery setting is a challenge for today’s nurses. This co-production between InJoy and the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) provides clinical tips and guidelines to teach nurses how to offer the ideal balance of emotional and medical support and care.

3 contact hours from AWHONN are available through July 1, 2015 (1 contact hour per volume). Fees apply. CNE forms available in free Facilitator's Guide.

Content Includes:

Volume 1: Admission Assessment

• Labor & Psychosocial Assessment – compassionate communication techniques, relationships, reassurance, physical exam, signs of abuse, responding to fears, assessing support
• Cultural Assessment & Care Planning – beliefs, privacy and exposure, expressions of pain, language barriers, evaluating expectations and knowledge about labor and birth, birth plans, special needs or disabilities, working with a doula

Volume 2: First Stage Labor Support

• Labor Pain – factors that affect how a woman responds to labor pain
• Nurse’s Role – being present, reducing anxiety, creating a supportive environment, providing comfort measures
• Maternal Positions & Movements – side-lying, upright, forward leaning, birth ball, fetal monitoring
• Non-Pharmacologic Techniques – massage, breathing, attention focusing and distraction, heat and cold, hydrotherapy, other methods

Volume 3: Second Stage Labor Support

• Evidence-Based Care – pushing guidelines, fetal heart rate
• Positions – upright, hands and knees, side-lying, semi-Fowlers
• Providing Comfort – emotions, communication, comfort measures, assisting support people
• Birth Assistance & Family Support – reactions, skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding support

Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.