For educators and preceptors, who want to expand their skills in teaching suturing and perineal repair - 2 CE Hours
About this Event

Teaching Suturing and Perineal Repair provides faculty and preceptors with a new look at clinical competencies for suturing and perineal repair. This workshop covers a wide array of teaching tools and strategies to aid learners as they develop and refine the complex behavioral skills needed to understand and perform the clinical competencies of knot-tying, suturing, and repair of birth lacerations. ACNM specialty credit Program #2024-001EA.

To ensure everyone gets individualized mentoring, the workshops are limited to 8 participants.

A suturing model, suturing instruments, and suture are included with registration. *Registration closes two weeks before event begins to allow time for supplies to arrive.*

NEW FOR 2025! Want more hands-one experience teaching suturing and perineal repair skills? A few participants who have attended the Teaching Suturing and Perineal Repair Workshop will have the opportunity for a discounted ticket to a Midwife Camp to participate in workshop prep and teaching. This is a great opportunity to hone your teaching and workshop organizational skills. Reach out to Nell for more information. We'll have up to two assistant teachers per Midwife Camp.

Additional information on this and other workshops can be found at www.nelltharpecnm.com

TICKETS

Reparations Tickets are designated for Black, Brown, and Indigenous midwives as reparations for historical enslavement and genocide. Cost of this ticket is 10% of the program fee and includes all workshop materials.

Pay-What-You-Can-Tickets ensure that financial need is not a barrier to attending. Financial documentation is not required. We ask that you please pay according to your budget. The value of workshop materials is $80 and we recommend this as the minimum payment. In determining what to pay for a Pay-What-You-Can-Ticket, consider your own financial situation as well as acknowledging the cost of materials and the services of your midwife educator. Just as you are encouraged to value your own midwifery skills in practice, you are also encouraged to recognize the value of this educational offering and Nell's need to make a living.

Discounts on Full Price Tickets:

Midwives of Color discount: All self-described BIPOC may receive a 15% discount on full-priced tickets. Use code: MOCEquity

Membership discounts: ACNM & NACPM members may receive a 10% discount on full-priced tickets. Use the appropriate code for you: ACNMMember; NACPMMember. For membership discounts, your Membership number is required.

*HOW TO USE DISCOUNT CODES*: The *blue link* to enter your promo code in Eventbrite is located at the top of the first screen shown when checking out, above the ‘Tickets’ heading. You'll need to know the code and enter it before you choose your ticket and check-out.

One discount allowed per purchase.

Nell Tharpe is a Certified Nurse Midwife who has been teaching suturing skills to midwives since 1996. Nell is the original author of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery & Women’s Health now in its 6th edition. Nell is committed to equity in midwifery practice and building midwifery suturing skills for midwives at all levels and all practice sites. Workshop teaching techniques include PowerPoint lectures, demonstrations and return demonstrations, simulation of teaching, self-assessment, and interactive discussion.