This 1.5 hour CE/CME course is a condensed version of our full IPE course, Transfer Tools for Midwives, EMS, and Receiving Providers. This version is designed specifically for those providing in-hospital care. 

Transfers from home births and birth centers to hospitals happen regularly and are an important part of safe care for birthing people and babies. We know that approximately 10% of planned community births (homebirth and birth center births) transfer to the hospital when pain medication or labor augmentation is needed, or when complications arise. 

Yet midwives, emergency services personnel, nurses, and receiving hospital providers don't receive training on how to work together as a care team. We often find ourselves trying to provide care in stressful emergency situations without the information or skills we need to do so effectively.

We're ready to change that and work together to improve care! This one-of-a-kind course:

• is a curriculum designed by midwives, emergency services personnel, nurses, and receiving hospital providers
• shares new collaborative methods for improving home birth and birth center to hospital transfers 
• teaches communication skills critical to keep calm and clear during stressful situations
• includes clinical best practices
• models scenarios demonstrating these best practices for communication and care
• teaches creative tools for bridging relationships with other provider types
• includes everything you need to know about the other providers involved to support optimal care and smooth transfer across all settings of a community birth transfer

This course will help all provider types work together smoothly so we can improve outcomes and the experience of care for mothers and babies.

CME for MDs: 

This activity has been approved for 1.50 Enduring Materials Self-Study Prescribed credits through March 11th, 2025. AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed credit, not as Category 1.

CE for CNMs:

CME credit awarded for this course is also accepted as CE for the Certificate Maintenance Program by the American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB).

CE for Nurses: 

HiveCE is an approved provider of continuing education by the California Board of Nursing, and this course is provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17686, for 1.5 contact hours, through November 30th, 2025.

This course was previously approved by ACNM for 1.5 hours of continuing education, approval number 2021-125, exp 12/14/23. (CNMs may now use the CME approval instead.)

Note: Course completion does not authorize the learner to use skills outside their scope. Please refer to your state guidelines for determining scope of care.

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