Midwifery Charting: Research Findings to Inform Practice

December 4, 2017

This webinar qualifies for the NARM Category 3 Bridge Certificate

Accurate charting is a critical midwifery skill. This webinar with Courtney Everson and Gina Gerboth is based on lessons learned during the 4.0 MANA Stats Validation project in conjunction with emerging best practices in charting for health professionals. We will cover recommendations, skills, and tools that will help midwives to improve charting efficiency, clarity, and consistency. Resulting improvements in charting can help support validation projects for perinatal data registries, protect midwives and clients during courses of care, and advance midwifery professionalism and interprofessional relationships.

Dr. Courtney Everson holds a PhD  in Applied Medical Anthropology with a long track record of community outreach, research, and leadership in education, non-profit management, and health equity. Dr. Everson is currently appointed as core Academic Faculty and the Dean of Graduate Studies at the Midwives College of Utah. Dr. Everson holds several leadership positions nationally in the midwifery field, including as the Director of Research Education for the MANA Division of Research, the co-Vice President of the Association of Midwifery Educators, and on the Board of Directors for the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council and the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health. 

Gina Gerboth, MPH, RM, CPM, IBCLC has been practicing midwifery since 2010 and has a busy home birth practice in Denver, Colorado. She received her Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health in December of 2015 from the Colorado School of Public Health, which is an educational consortium through University of  Colorado, Colorado State University, and University of Northern Colorado. During her graduate program, she participated in  he 4.0 MANA Stats validation project for her practicum. She began teaching and developing curricula at Midwives College of Utah during the summer of 2016. Additionally, she has been an IBCLC since 2008. Prior to this work, she was a Policy Analyst for the US Department of Agriculture,  Congressional Aide, and a freelancer in the publishing industry.