Presenter: Joyce Roberts, CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN
Contact Hours: 1.0

"Hold your breath, count to 10 and push hard!"
Is this what nurses and physicians in your hospital still tell laboring women? If so, it is time re-evaluate how you manage second stage labor in your OB unit. Download this educational webinar and update the management of second stage labor in your facility. Discover current evidence-based information about the benefits of upright positioning and delayed and non-directed pushing and learn strategies for implementation of these techniques. Upon completion of this 75-minute presentation, you should be able to:

• Define the second stage of labor.
• Provide physical, emotional, instructional and psychosocial supportive care to women and their families during the second stage of labor
• Facilitate alternative positioning and nondirected pushing techniques based on current evidence
• Evaluate and respond to the physiologic and psychologic processes occurring during the second stage of labor
• Describe strategies that facilitate implementation of evidence-based positioning and pushing techniques.

Presented by AWHONN and Joyce Roberts, CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN. Dr. Roberts is a former Professor of Nursing and in the School of Medicine, Dept of OB/GYN at the University of Michigan and former President of the American College of Nurse Midwives.

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