2019 Research Forum

Implementation of Labor Coaches in the Labor & Delivery Department

Labor & Delivery

Mae Casabar RN, Vanessa Delgado RN, Jeanette Jaime RN

During the year, training was offered to the NICU nurses from a labor coach volunteer, but there was no coordinated effort to identify volunteers to be labor coaches. Recommendations to mimic a program from the University of San Diego program which has good results in preventing C-section rates, and provide continued support to patient/ nursing staff. The EBPP group identified the need for a labor coach volunteer program at Kern Medical organized by a dedicated staff person, development algorithm or schedule of when to offer a labor coach to a patient, and develop a schedule or phone list. No data was collected, but recommendations made to improve a labor coach program at Kern Medical.

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