ACLS-OB Improves Performance and Self-Efficacy

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: ACLS-OB Improves Performance and Self-Efficacy

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Sheryl Parfitt, MSN, RNC-OB , Labor and Delivery - Women's Center - 2D, Scottsdale Healthcare - Shea Campus, Scottsdale, AZ
Cheryl Roth, PhD, WHNP-BC, RNC-OB, RNFA , Obstetrics, Scottsdale Healthcare, Phoenix, AZ

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Professional Issues (PI), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • List 2 unique needs pregnant patients have in resuscitation scenarios.
  • Discuss how the ACLS OB course increased Labor and Delivery nurses' self-satisfaction and self confidence when responding to an obstetrical resuscitation scenario.
  • Describe how the ACLS OB course improved Labor and Delivery nurses' performance in a maternal mock code scenario.

    • Submission Description:
    Pregnant women have unique needs in resuscitation scenarios and while traditional ACLS courses may touch briefly on necessary modifications, comprehensive education is not provided. ACLS-OB combines traditional ACLS with obstetrical specific information and uses scenarios that are applicable to the everyday practice of obstetrical nurses. This study demonstrated that the ACLS OB course increased self satisfaction and self-confidence in obstetrical nurses’ abilities to perform ACLS algorithms and improved their performance in maternal MegaCode scenarios.

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