GOLD Learning Speakers
Amanda Kelloway, RN, BScN, MN, LCCE, IBCLC
- Speaker Type: Labour & Delivery Symposium 2025
- Country: Canada
Biography:
Amanda Kelloway has been a perinatal nurse for over twenty years and has worked as a bedside nurse, Clinical Nurse Educator, Childbirth Educator and Lactation Consultant. She is passionate about promoting, protecting, and supporting physiologic childbirth to foster empowering birth experiences for women and pregnant people. The focus of her masters degree was the development of critical thinking within specialty nursing education and elevating evidence informed practice in perinatal nursing. She is currently Faculty with the Perinatal Specialty Nursing Program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Canada.
CE Library Presentation(s) Available Online:
Birth at a Crossroads: Reimagining Care Through a Lens of Practice
Caesarean sections and birth interventions continue to be on the rise without associated improvements in maternal morbidity and instead we are seeing an increased in the incidence of traumatic births (Watson et al., 2021; WHO, 2018). Those who work with women/pregnant people hold great power to influence perinatal and neonatal outcomes, enabling an empowering, supportive birth experience or one of defeat, regret, and lasting trauma. Practice changes that positively impact the short-term and long-term health of women/pregnant people and their babies, will require us to embrace and enact approaches within the micro context of healthcare. Adding to the international discourse about the de-medicalization of childbirth, this presentation emphasizes our role as integral agents of change highlighting our inherent power and influence. Implications for practice will include practical approaches to enact small changes within the micro context, which will in turn improve perinatal outcomes. A new concept called a Lens of Practice will be introduced providing a foundation for materializing practice change within the nurse-client relationship.
Presentations:
9 | Hours / CE Credits: 9.25
| Viewing Time: 8 Weeks
Hours / CE Credits: 1 (details) | Categories:
(IBCLC) Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, Birth Interventions, Birth Trauma, Trauma Informed Care
