Promoting Professional Labor Support through Education

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Promoting Professional Labor Support through Education

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Cozetta S. Bagley, DNP, MSN, RNC-OB , Labor and Delivery, CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
Rebecca Masoner, BSN, RNC-OB , Labor and Delivery, CoxHealth, Springfield, MO

Discipline: Childbearing (CB)

Learning Objectives:
  • 1. Analyze the background and barriers to professional labor support and the potential for nursing impact on positive birth outcomes if adopted.
  • 2. Examine the research design and course content of an evidence-based educational program, "The Professional Labor Support Course", founded on Swanson’s theory of caring and the AWHONN Position statement on Nursing Support of Laboring Women.
  • 3. Evaluate the efficacy of "The Professional Labor Support Course" based on nursing outcomes of self-efficacy, perceived value of content, learner satisfaction, and intended knowledge translation to practice.

    • Submission Description:
    Continuous labor support is a non-pharmacologic, evidence-based strategy associated with reduced cesarean rates. With advancing technology and barriers, non-provision of professional labor support is a documented nursing problem despite full endorsement by AWHONN as an essential nursing function. This presentation/poster describes a research study to design, implement and evaluate a formal nursing theory and evidence-based educational program on professional labor support for intrapartum nurses, The Professional Labor Support Course, to address the practice problem.

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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.