Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome and thank you for making this commitment.

    • Our aims for this course

    • Before we begin...

    • Learning Objectives

    • What to expect...

    • Re-entry? Re-evaluating and Returning to our Practices. What to expect from the updates in this Course. *6/12/2020*
  • 2

    Understanding COVID-19: Signs, Symptoms, Morbidity & Mortality

    • Transmission & Spread: Understanding the Virus *updated 6/1/2020*

    • Symptoms & Progression: From Incubation to Recovery *updated 6/1/2020*

    • Who is dying and why? Understanding Fatalities Associated with COVID-19 *updated 6/12/2020*
  • 3

    By population

    • Infants & Young Children *updated 6/12/2020*

    • Teens and Young Adults *updated 6/12/2020*

    • Older Adults

    • Pregnant Persons *updated 6/15/2020*
  • 4

    Preventing spread

    • Responsibilities as Citizens and in our Professional Roles

    • Where We Fit: Why We Often Don't Have Precautions in Place

    • Universal, Standard, and Transmission-Based Precautions *updated 6/12/2020*

    • Hand washing

    • Creating an Exposure Control Plan *added 6/15/20*

    • Cleaning, Sanitizing and Disinfecting

    • Caring for Persons Suspected to have COVID-19 *updated 6/12/2020*

    • Making Do: Access to Personal Protection Equipment

    • Exclude from Duty: When to Stay Home *updated 6/8/2020*

    • Handwashing: Usual Precautions

    • More about face coverings (updated 7/24/2020)
  • 5

    Transmission to Newborns and common concerns for parents

    • Vertical transmission: Can babies acquire the virus in-utero?
  • 6

    Position Statements: Guidance for Practice

    • ACOG Practice Advisory

    • Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) : Position Statement

    • RCOG Position Statement

    • ILCA: March 18, 2020 Statement

    • DONA & Maternal/Child Organizations

    • AAP guidelines, updated 7/24/2020
  • 7

    Guidelines by Scope of Practice

    • For Educators

    • For Lactation Consultants

    • For home-based providers & postpartum doulas *updated 6/15/2020*

    • Updates: Labor Support Best Practices *6/15/2020*

    • Expecting a safe work environment *updated 6/15/2020*

    • Reducing the risk of infection: Downloadable resource to share with clients *NEW 6/15/2020*
  • 8

    Staying Well: Stress-buffers, Self-Care, and Immunity

    • Our risk profile
  • 9

    Preparation for Public Emergency: Being prepared for the worst

    • Ethical considerations, awareness and self-care
  • 10

    Next Steps...

    • Where do we go from here?

    • Join our Community Meetings First and Third Tuesday of each month at 4pm CST

    • Survey

Is your practice ready for a public health emergency?

Access best-practice tools for perinatal educators, doulas and lactation professionals. Families need you to be up-to-date, informed and skilled to care for them during the unexpected.

Prepare now!

We'll navigate this together.

We're sharing the tools that will prepare you to preserve your health, your sanity, and your practice.

  • Free guides for your setting.

    Included in the course are setting & practice specific considerations to guide your practice and your message to your clients.

  • Weekly briefings accompany your course.

    We are all adjusting to rapidly changing conditions in our communities and watching for new case reports and position statements to guide our practice. Staying abreast is overwhelming. Students of our course will be provided weekly briefings, highlighting information critical for our practices.

  • Student COVID-19 Community Meeting

    Every Tuesday at 4pm CST we'll be hosting Community Conversations, an opportunity to discuss your concerns, gain practical tools, like how to create a virtual care model, and explore coping and resiliency. As we strive to find our way through caring for others and maintaining our health, our sanity and our practices, this ONLINE community meeting will give us an opportunity to synthesize what we’ve learned about best practices and to ‘doula’ our community through this unfamiliar territory.

Tuesdays at 4pm CST: Join our Free Community (Online) Gathering!

Community Gathering: Providers of Reproductive Health Discuss How We're Responding to Coronavirus

If you're a doula, midwife, lactation consultant you've had a calling to support expectant and new families. Now, we're called to respond to this pandemic, and it's a whole new world. We're often the experienced guides, but it's easy to see that are facing the unfamiliar. As we strive to find our way through caring for others and maintaining our health, our sanity and our practices, this ONLINE community meeting will give us an opportunity to synthesize what we've learned about best practices and to 'doula' our community through this unfamiliar territory. We can do breakout groups for small group conversations, we'll have a guided mindfulness practice and we'll be establishing priorities for future conversations. Currently, the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of the month, we focus on "Being" and offer free guided trauma-informed mindfulness practices, discuss stress buffers, and Trauma-Informed Care. On the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, we address the "Doing" aspect of our redefined practices, and explore topics ranging from practice guidelines, to business sustainability, to mobilizing to meet the needs of our communities.
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