Family-Centered Cesarean Section: Implementing an Enhanced Birth Experience

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Family-Centered Cesarean Section: Implementing an Enhanced Birth Experience

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Amy Lavigne, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM , Women and Children's Center, Vail Valley Medical Center, Vail, CO
Sarah R. Washburn, MS, RNC-OB, IBCLC , Women's and Children's Unit, Vail Valley Medical Center, Vail, CO
Colleen Gosiewski, BSN, RN , Women's and Children's Unit, Vail Valley Medical Center, Vail, CO
Andrea Kuester, BSN, RN , Women's and Children's Unit, Vail Valley Medical Center, Vail, CO

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N)

Learning Objectives:
  • The learner will understand the process in which the Family-Centered Cesarean Section initiative was implemented.
  • The learner will gain insight into the value of a more family-centered cesarean section.
  • The learner will have the knowledge to begin implementation of a more family-centered cesarean section on his/her own labor and delivery unit.

    • Submission Description:
    Implementing interventions (music, dim lights, skin-to-skin contact, minimal to no separation, breastfeeding initiation in the OR) for our families undergoing cesarean section births.

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