Labor & Delivery Training
At The Medical Center of Aurora, the birthing process is encouraged and supported as a unique family experience. Special attention is placed on the comfort of our new mothers and their families. An outstanding team - including nurses, doctors, certified nurse midwives and neonatal nurse practitioners - cares for our mothers.
To prepare the nurse who is interested in contributing to the labor and delivery process, we offer an entry-level course twice a year, in February and August. Program components include 96 hours of didactic and 12 weeks clinical preceptorship in the following areas:
Week One
- Course introduction
- Honoring childbirth
- Physiology/psychology of pregnancy
- Obstetrical care planning
- Normal labor and delivery
- Introduction to fetal monitoring
- Fetal acid/base balance
- Childbirth preparation
- Coaching support in labor
- Epidural anesthesia in labor
- Labor dystocia
- Induction/augmentation of labor
- Medications and fetal
- Monitoring and case studies
Week Two
- Second stages of labor
- Care of the delivered patient
- Postpartum care and teaching
- Lactation
- Fetal pulse oximetry
- Newborn assessment
- Neonatal resuscitation
- Pulmonary complications of pregnancy
- Obstetrical hemorrhage
- DIC
- PIH/HELLP syndrome
- Communication skills
- Obstetrical documentation
- OR crisis
- Diabetes in pregnancy
- Infant abduction
- Fetal loss
Week Three
- EKG interpretation
- OB PACU care
- Resuscitation of the OB patient
- Principles of asepsis and sterility
- Mock C-sections
- Pre-term labor
- Premature rupture of membranes
- Cultural/religious considerations
- Antepartum assessment and care
- Multiple gestation
- Patient advocacy
- Perinatal ethics
For more information, contact the Human Resources Department.
