Informed Consent and Shared Decision-Making
March 9, 2017
This webinar qualifies for the NARM Category 3 Bridge Certificate
Midwives provide care that supports normal physiologic birth. Thank you for all that you do to promote health and to keep childbearing people and their babies healthy! Your skills in risk assessment, deep listening to the needs and values of your clients, and evidence informed and supported decision making are critical to the care you provide. This week’s NACPM webinar “Informed Consent and Shared Decisionmaking” is an opportunity to refresh and sharpen your understanding of the professional, legal and ethical requirements that underpin your practice. The presentation will also address how midwives and clients can use decision aids and electronic health records to support and document the information sharing and decision making processes.
Drawing from her role on the NARM Board in drafting policy on documentation and practice of Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making, as well as her role in developing workflows for documentation of these processes in Maternity Neighborhood, Brynne Potter, CPM and CEO of Maternity Neighborhood, covered the minimum standards required to provide and document Informed Consent via the process of Shared Decision Making. Documentation via paper or electronic consent were also covered.
Brynne is a midwife, national advocate, and thought leader within maternity care delivery and HIT solutions. By aligning US midwifery with the principles of disruptive innovation, Brynne focuses on the insights gained from the trenches of decentralized care delivered to women in homes and birth centers and looks for opportunities to scale high quality, value driven model of maternity care to hospitals and health systems. In her role as a board member of the North American Registry of Midwives, Brynne oversaw the updates to NARM’s policies on Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making.
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NACPM Executive Director Mary Lawlor reported on the research and development of an NACPM Practice Committee that will compile, evaluate and share best practice information for CPMs.