Effective Prenatal Education

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Program aims

Today’s expectant parents demand high quality, stimulating programs that meet their individual educational needs in an increasingly high tech world. Providers of parent education programs have an obligation to provide quality courses led by competent and enthusiastic facilitators who will meet parent’s expectations while enhancing the facility’s pubic relations and community standing.

Enabling educators to gain the basic skills for the planning and development of effective, stimulating and enjoyable birth and parenting programs in a variety of settings and for different client groups is therefore vitally important. Childbirth educators spend more time with expectant parents than other members of the maternity care team. They are a vital link in ensuring informed consent is understood by clients and in managing risk by the institution/hospital. Their input is important for promoting health and developing appropriate maternity care services.

Childbirth hand parenting educators must be properly trained, adequately equipped and well supported by their employers. This workshop is a recognised program, offering high quality training from a team of experienced professionals.

This program is designed to:

• Explore the basics of appropriate adult education for expectant parents

  Endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives

• Enable the educator to develop professional, evidence based practises
• Experience a variety of interactive activities to get a "feel" for how to facilitate them in their programs
• Discuss the "how-to" of managing groups
• Examine various teaching aids
• Develop skills in program planning and evaluation.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Facilitate a variety of teaching activities that incorporate adult learning principles.
• Describe basic group management techniques that enhance learning for participants.
• Prepare an outline for a pregnancy program for a specific client group
• Evaluate childbirth education teaching aids

Continuing Professional Development points

This program has been awarded 30 CPD points by the Australian College of Midwives for those midwives enrolled in the MidPLUS program.

Workshop Program

• Introductions/ Establishing our group rules / Personal evaluation/ expectations
• The scope of childbirth education and the role of the educator
• Skills for parents
• Working with adults / how groups function / setting agendas
• Exploring attitudes / beliefs / values

• Ethical and legal issues / informed choice
• Problem solving and empowering parents
• Basics of adult learning / selecting teaching activities and strategies
• Using teaching aids

• Effective presentations
• Exploring class formats and program design for client needs
• Program preparation / evaluation strategies
• Practical - preparation of topic outlines

• Examples of effective teaching activities for various topics in a pre-natal program
• Evaluation / adaptation / implementation

• Expectations for presentations/ giving and receiving feedback
• Presentations by the participants
• Evaluation and feedback
• Workshop wrap-up

Registration

To enrol in this workshop, please complete the form and submit.

Registration fees:
$750.00 (including GST)

Workshop numbers are limited to a maximum of 20 per group and registrations are recorded in order of receipt - payment must accompany registration. Registration forms must be received by June 27, 2009. If your hospital requires a pro-forma invoice to enable a purchase order to be prepared for pre-payment, please contact Birth International for assistance. [link to accounts@birthinternational.com]

Your registration will confirmed in writing with further details of the venue and your receipt (tax invoice). If appropriate, information regarding accommodation will also be included so that you may make your own accommodation reservation.

Cancellation:

Birth International reserves the right to cancel the program is insufficient numbers are registered one month before the workshop date. In this event, a full refund will be offered.

No refunds will be offered for participants who withdraw within one month of the workshop date, although a substitute may be registered, providing Birth International is notified.