Promoting Normal Physiologic Birth through Partnership with Consumers, Providers, and Hospitals

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Promoting Normal Physiologic Birth through Partnership with Consumers, Providers, and Hospitals

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
MaryJane Lewitt, Phd, CNM, APRN , Nurse Midwifery Program, Emory University College of Nursing, Atlanta, GA
Lisa Kane Low, PhD, CNM, FACNM , Nurse Midwifery Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  • Gain an understanding of the work of the Healthy Birth Task Force and how this work has the potential to change and support the implementation of evidence based practices by nurses, providers, and consumers through supporting physiologic birth.
  • Describe the content of ACNM's BirthTools Tool Kit and become familiar with how to access the Tool Kit online. Explain how to effectively use ACNM's BirthTools Tool Kit to create lasting cultural and organizational change in your organization.
  • Discuss current national normal-birth related policy and quality initiatives including the National Quality Forum Endorsed Perinatal and Reproductive Health Quality Measures, ACOG's "reVITALize" Obstetric Data Definitions, and The Joint Commission reporting requirements.

    • Submission Description:
    Collective public interest in high quality, safe and effective health care has drawn attention to the procedure-intensive birth culture in the United States. The ACNM Normal Birth Task Force was created in 2012 in response to the need for strategies to increase women's access to normal, physiologic childbirth and to support evidence based maternity care. The group evaluated data, created implementation plans and is communicating processes to consumers, providers, and hospital systems.

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