Next dates 2012:
Winter students: March 11, 18, and 25.
Spring students: May 19, 20, and 26.
The Advanced Intensives focus on application and refinement of skills leaned in the basic intensive course. A practical, hands-on workshop format builds upon the academic/skills foundation you have already established. Little homework–lots of small group concentration!
These three, all-day workshops include:
- Initial interview, small group practice and critique
- Complete prenatal exams, including interview and routine care
- Charting
- Advanced pelvimetry, including bimanual assessment, cervical assessment and Pap smear
- Basics of well-woman care, including breast health/exam
- Case histories–prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum, workup and review
- Role-playing of crisis/complications management
- Grief counseling–debriefing difficult birth experiences (for practitioner and client)
- Liability, informed consent, setting boundaries in care-giving
- Venipuncture/blood draw
- Guest midwives panel–nurse-midwives and direct-entry midwives share their experiences
- More on apprenticeship and licensure–practical preparation
“Perfect for integrating and distilling the information from beginning course. I found the practice cases extremely helpful, the venipuncture empowering, and the midwife panel invaluable.”
“If the first course was about absorbing midwifery into the skin, this course is about beginning to feel it in your bones, think like a midwife, and trust that indeed you already are one.”
Advanced Workshops meet at 2130 4th St., San Rafael, CA
Cost is $425, payable with a $255 non-refundable, non-transferable deposit (made out to Elizabeth Davis) and sent to my address, below.
The Advanced Workshops are also available in distance format. Fees are the same as above but are payable in advance. Please contact me for more details.
3201 Burnside Rd. Sebastopol, CA 95472 800-594-3644
