Partnering for Perinatal Perfection: Imparting Knowledge, Skill and Confidence to Rural Nurses

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Partnering for Perinatal Perfection: Imparting Knowledge, Skill and Confidence to Rural Nurses

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Carolyn A. Cook, MSN, RN-C , Labor and Delivery, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N), Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  • Recognize the challenges to providing staff education and maintaining staff competency that exist in small community hospitals located in rural settings
  • Identify 3 professional organizations whose publications are available as resources to OB nurses
  • Discuss a process for the documentation of an increase in knowledge through classroom and didactic teaching in the Obstetric nursing genre

    • Submission Description:
    An academic medical center was approached by a manager of a small rural hospital, requesting assistance in training nurses to care for labor patients. With less than 10 deliveries per month and lacking many resources, she requested that we allow her nurses to train in our high-risk obstetric unit, and attend critically necessary courses. The outcome was an effective increase in the knowledge and skill of the rural nurses, and a positive experience for all.

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    The 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.