Use this outline to guide your study and reading. You should know the concepts outlined. Tip: Write down or type up your understanding of everything outlined for your own records.
Objectives:
- Describe the value of informed consent to families
- List differences in models of care
- Understand how to create an effective birth plan
Study:
Book – Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn 2016 edition
- Chapter 1, “You’re Having a Baby!”, page 1
- Chapter 2, “So Many Choices”, page 8
- Chapter 8, “Planning for Birth and Postpartum”, page 142
Outline:
A. Impact of childbirth
- Birth as lifetime memory
- Rite of passage
B. Informed consent terms
- Informed decision
- Informed choice
- Informed consent
- Informed refusal
- Shared decision making
C. Choices for giving birth
- Freestanding birth center
- Hospitals
- Homebirth
- Types of care providers
- Choosing and changing care providers
D. Models of care
- Midwifery model of care
- Medical model of care
- Steps to a satisfying birth
E. Birth planning
- Benefits of birth plans
- Nurses and birth plans
- Self reliant approach to care
- Caregiver reliant approach to care
- Birth plan topics
- Postpartum plan
Assignment
Next Study Module #7 Complications in Childbirth