F1 - Place Of Birth Matters: Shifting From Debates About Hospital, Birth Center, Or Home To Questions About Creating Optimum Settings For All Women
F1 - Place Of Birth Matters: Shifting From Debates About Hospital, Birth Center, Or Home To Questions About Creating Optimum Settings For All Women
Title: F1 - Place Of Birth Matters: Shifting From Debates About Hospital, Birth Center, Or Home To Questions About Creating Optimum Settings For All Women
Disciplines: Advanced Practice (AP), Childbearing (CB)
Learning Objectives:
- Identify three main results of the updated Cochrane Review of Alternative versus Conventional Institutional Settings for Birth.
- Describe three main outcomes of recent Canadian and UK studies of place of birth.
- State three main attributes of health-promoting clinical environments.
Dr. Hodnett will summarize the best evidence about the risks and benefits of various types of birth settings, and describe the characteristics of settings which promote optimum outcomes for mothers and babies. The main messages are: 1) “place” matters, 2) creating bedroom-like settings in hospitals is not the solution to the problem of medicalized birth, and 3) low-cost modifications to hospital labor rooms have the potential to exert many benefits.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Presidential A (Gaylord Opryland)
Moderator:
Samantha A. Sommerness, DNP, RN, CNM
Presenting Author:
Ellen Hodnett, RN, PhD
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