Continuing Education

Education, Trainings, and Webinars

This workshop will cover everything you need to provide options counseling, medication abortion, and telehealth abortion, as well as values clarification.

This training meets all of the requirements under SB 1375, allowing nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to independently provide first-trimester medication abortion care.

At the end of the training you’ll be ready to implement what you've learned into your practice immediately with template policies and procedures, standardized procedures, competency validation documents, and patient handouts. People in California NEED trained abortion providers--Please answer the call! Register on our Events Page

Postpartum Support International PMH-C Core Trainings

Postpartum Support International has developed an internationally recognized training program for health providers and social support networks based on evidence-based therapeutic models and approaches, which incorporate interpersonal therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, group therapy, couples therapy, and parent-infant therapy. Explore PSI’s perinatal mental health webinars, certificate trainings, and coaching for professionals, families, and community peer support. In-person trainings provide networking opportunities with like-minded professionals, while the webinars allow you to gain access to the training from the comfort of your own home without the travel expenses. The webinar also places you in small groups, according to time zone, for group discussions between classes. Both trainings provide the prerequisite toward Certification in Perinatal Mental Health.

Approved for CMEs, CNEs, and CEs. Register below:

https://www.postpartum.net/professionals/certificate-trainings/

Transforming White Privilege: On the Path to Racial Equity in Maternity Care

We invite you to explore with us our understanding of white privilege, racism, and anti-blackness. We will examine the history of race and racism and the culture of white supremacy and white fragility, as we learn to interrupt the harmful effects of racism. Engaging with readings, videos, exercises, personal stories and restorative practices, we will build a supportive, healing community while we cultivate the skills needed to show up together as clinicians to do the work of dismantling racism in maternity care. This workshop is highly recommended for midwives working together in the same group practice. For more info and to register, click HERE.

8th Edition of the TEACH Abortion Training Curriculum

The revised 8th Edition of the TEACH Abortion Training Curriculum is now available on the TEACH website. This curriculum is the result of the collective work of many people. We are deeply grateful for every contribution. Every individual who shared their comments and critiques shaped and transformed this curriculum into the version we present to you today. TEACH cultivates the next generation of diverse reproductive health champions through abortion training, mentorship and curriculum development.

Comprehensive Newborn Care Guide for Midwives

The Comprehensive Newborn Assessment Course for Midwives will walk you through the physical examination from head to toe. You’ll learn how much we can discover just by looking at a baby. We will talk about common client educational topics and routine newborn screenings, as well as the business side of newborn care like policies, billing, and consents.With lifetime access to over 20 hours of content and resources, whether you are a newer midwife or well seasoned in your services, this course is the perfect educational opportunity for you to keep newborn babies healthy in the days and weeks after they are born! Register here.

COVID Care Tips for Midwives

This course contains over 5hrs of videos, content, policies, guidelines, and resources to care for mothers and babies in your midwifery practice. We have two amazing instructors that joined forces to make this course available to everyone: Rhanishia Smith, FNP & Dr. Jill Chasse, PhD, DrPH, IMD, MSpsy, CCTS-P. Register here.

AWHONN Respectful Maternity Care

Respectful Maternity Care from AWHONN is an approach to care that emphasizes the fundamental rights of women, newborns, and families, promoting equitable access to evidence-based care while recognizing unique needs and preferences. The new Respectful Maternity Care Program, including the RMC Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline and RMC Implementation Toolkit, provides resources on respectful nursing care.

Trauma-Informed Care

AABC has partnered with the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs to offer members a valuable new benefit - FREE lifetime access to two of their online courses on trauma-informed care. The Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs specializes in creating educational programs about healing earliest traumas, especially for mothers and babies.

The Midwife as Surgical First Assistant

This ACNM workshop’s focus is on applying current evidence so midwives can participate and provide continuity of care for clients during a cesarean section. In this course, you will learn core knowledge and skills needed to perform as the surgical first assistant for cesarean, at a novice level. This course is designed specifically for midwives and addresses promotion of vaginal birth, shared decision-making and informed consent, and functioning as an active member of the perioperative team. Following the workshop, each participant is responsible to set up mentored experience at their clinical setting to gain competency in the skills needed to function efficiently, effectively, and with greater confidence as a member of the perioperative maternity care team. ACNM Members $699.00 | Non-Member $899.00 | Student $399.00 | Student Non-Member $599.00. Learn more and register.

AWHONN's Labor Support for Intended Vaginal Birth

This guideline provides evidence-based clinical practice recommendations to support individualized labor based on the best available evidence. The goal is to promote safe vaginal birth with limited medical interventions. Labor support strategies should be provided from admission through birth and should be used to complement the labor process for people who choose to use pharmacologic agents for pain management. This guideline provides evidence-based approaches to accomplish the following: empower people in labor to achieve their wishes using a shared decision-making model; provide labor support strategies to incorporate into standardized care practices; minimize technological interventions during labor; and decrease cesarean birth. Learn more and purchase the program here.