Classes and workshops for professionals
Safe Sitter Certification Course
Our Babysitter Certification Course equips participants with essential skills and knowledge to confidently and responsibly care for children. Through a combination of theoretical learning and hands-on practical training, participants will learn about:
Infant basics such as: diaper changes, bottle feeding, bathing, and more
Simple/Essential first aid techniques such as: how to clean a wound, how to use an epi-pen, how to manage bee-stings, proper use of an ice pack, and more.
In addition, by completing this course, participants will become CPR certified and will receive a Safe Sitters Course Certificate.
This class is taught by Certified Postpartum Doula, BLS and Cardiac Certified Pediatric Nurse, Joanna Juralewicz.
Class investment with CPR cert: $149, additional p
Each person can bring a support parent for no additional charge
CPR for Professionals
Our CPR for Professionals Class is tailored to equip individuals with the vital skills needed to respond effectively to cardiac emergencies in various professional settings. Perfect for:
- daycares
- doulas
- teachers
- coaches
- nanny’s
- any and all professions that include working with children!
Participants will learn the latest techniques in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), including adult, child, and infant CPR, as well as the Heimlich maneuver.
This hands-on course emphasizes real-life scenarios and focuses on teamwork, communication, and rapid intervention. Ensure your readiness to confidently handle critical situations and potentially save lives.
This class is taught by Certified Postpartum Doula, BLS and Cardiac Certified Pediatric Nurse, Joanna Juralewicz.
Class investment: $90 per person
Savy Birth Pro - For Anyone Working in the Birth Profession
Are you looking for CEU’s for Birth Professionals? Are you passionate about evidence based care, but regularly witness hospital policies taking precedence over your client’s choice? It can be frustrating to watch clients receive care that isn’t based on research and not quite knowing how to help.
The Savvy Birth Pro Workshop (3 contact hours) was developed by Evidence Based Birth® to give professionals the skills you need to make a genuine difference and help your clients attain the best possible chance at evidence based care during pregnancy and labor.
The 3-hour Savvy Birth Pro Workshop will succeed in preparing you to help your clients assert their right to evidence based care in a respectful way that builds bridges, not walls. We believe the inspirational knowledge you will gain from the Savvy Birth Pro Workshop will have a positive ripple effect that extends to your clients, the professionals you work with and your community!
You’re no longer alone in the quest to help more families receive respectful, high quality maternity care! The Savvy Birth Pro Workshop does more than provide great skills; it creates a strong community of connected professionals who together share this important mission.
This Savvy Birth Pro Workshop is taught by Alyssa Sylvester, Evidence Based Birth Instructor®, Spinning Babies® Parent Educator, BACE Childbirth Educator and Birth Doula.
Contact hours: By attending the workshop and completing an online evaluation, you will earn a certificate for 3 contact hours from Evidence Based Birth®, a continuing education provider for the Kentucky Board of Nursing # 7-0081. Nursing contact hours can be applied to most childbirth educator and doula certifications, as well as the Certified Professional Midwife credential.
Learning Objectives
- Define evidence-based care and discuss statistics on the quality of birth settings in our local community
- Discuss the major reasons why we have an evidence-practice gap, including the power hierarchy and how it is a barrier to evidence-based, family-centered care
- Discuss ways that we can bridge the evidence-practice gap at the system level
- Discuss specific strategies we can use to help our clients obtain evidence-based care
Comfort Measures for Labor and Delivery Nurses
Are you an L & D nurse who wishes you had more tools in your toolbox to help keep patients comfortable during labor?
By attending Comfort Measures for Labor and Delivery Nurses, you will not only get hands-on practice with comfort measures skills, but you’ll also learn how you can overcome barriers to providing comfort measures on your unit!
All nurses who register at the Professional level or higher will earn 3.5 nursing contact hours, and those who register as Super Users will receive a Comfort Measures Toolkit to take back to your unit and teach to your peers. Come enjoy an afternoon of demonstrations, discussion, and networking with L & D nurses from all over Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
This Comfort Measures Workshop is taught by Alyssa Sylvester, Spinning Babies® Parent Educator, BACE Childbirth Educator and Birth Doula, and Evidence Based Birth® Instructor. We designed this workshop specifically for Labor and Delivery nurses who are looking to add to their labor support knowledge and skills. However, local doulas, midwives, and childbirth educators are also encouraged to register!
Contact hours: By attending this workshop and completing an evaluation and quiz, registrants at the Professional or Super User ticket level will earn a certificate for 3.5 nursing contact hours from Evidence Based Birth®, a continuing education provider for the Kentucky Board of Nursing #7-0081. Nursing contact hours can also be applied to most childbirth educator and doula certifications.
Learning Objectives for Comfort Measures Workshop
- Discuss the evidence on comfort measures
- Demonstrate a variety of comfort measures
- Discuss how we can overcome barriers to providing comfort measures
Registration Options
- Basic Ticket- audit only (no contact hours)
- Professional Ticket– certificate for 3.5 nursing contact hours
- Super User Ticket– certificate for 3.5 nursing contact hours, lanyard and flash drive loaded with the “Comfort Measures Teaching Toolkit” that includes lesson plans and handouts with permission to teach lessons to your peers, 30 day free trial to the Professional Membership at Evidence Based Birth® with access to 24 additional contact hours, and a laminated “Pocket Guide to Comfort Measures”
Additional info about the “Super User” ticket: We are encouraging each local hospital to sponsor at least two nurses to become Comfort Measures Super Users! Your Nurse Super Users will be able to teach their peers how comfort measures can decrease the Cesarean rate, decrease patient pain levels, and increase patient satisfaction. Having at least 2 nurses trained as Super Users will make it easier for them to demonstrate to the other L & D nurses on their unit what they learned at the workshop.
Super Users will receive a Comfort Measures Toolkit
This will be loaded on a flash drive and includes:- Lesson plans on:
- Sending patients home in early labor
- Hydrotherapy for pain relief during labor
- Positive language that decreases patient pain perception
- Upright positions during labor for improvind birth outcomes
- Full-length printer-friendly PDFs with Evidence on Fetal Monitoring, Birthing Positions, Eating and Drink during Labor, and Protecting the Perineum
- One-page handouts to share with patients covering: Birthing Affirmations, Birthing Positions, Comfort Measures in Early Labor, Eating and Drinking during Labor, Fetal Monitoring, and Nitrous Oxide