Home Based Life Saving Skills Workshop-2008

ACNM Home Based LSS workshop in Tucson, AZ.
Number 7: 28 July - 1 August (arrive 27 July and leave 2 August);
Number 8:  4-8 August  (arrive 3 August and leave 9 August).  

Goal and Objectives
Content Outline of Session
Sessions
Faculty
Field Experience
Logistics
Workshop Dates
Registration and Payment
Cancellation Policy

Goal
The Home Based Life Saving Skills workshop will help participants develop competence and confidence in teaching HBLSS using the step-by-step HBLSS process and performing the HBLSS life-saving skills.

Behavioral Objectives
At the completion of the workshop, the participant will be able to:

1. Describe and competently demonstrate the step-by-step training process of conducting Home Based LSS meetings.
2. Describe and competently perform the skills as outlined on the Take Action Cards.
3. Describe the systems approach to implementing an HBLSS program that incorporates, planning, assessment, preparation, training, monitoring and evaluation
4. Describe ways to bridge gaps in understanding in situations where local concepts of illness and care giving practices are different from biomedical concepts and practices.
5. Describe and demonstrate the pre/post test method used in HBLSS.
6. List 5 woman and 3 newborn complications addressed in HBLSS.
7. Summarize the HBLSS program for an orientation meeting.

Content Outline of Session
This workshop actively explores the adult learning principles and skills used in the HBLSS manual.  These principles and skills encourage the learner to identify and solve real-life problems.  The participants learn to find solutions to real-life problems of obstetric and newborn emergencies that are safe, acceptable and in many cases sustainable in a home setting with limited resources. The HBLSS workshop uses the HBLSS process that is based on sharing experiences, examining different possible solutions to real-life obstetric and newborn emergencies in less than optimal conditions, and negotiating solutions that are more likely to be adopted when needed. 

The workshop participants, who are preparing to become HBLSS trainers and consultants, have the responsibility to role-model in the field for those they train to: (1) respectfully consider the ideas suggested by participants, (2) to discuss these solutions with the relevant decision-makers, and (3) to adapt the solutions for the conditions and resources available.  These responsibilities are key to the success and integration of HBLSS in any health care system.

Sessions
During the 5 day workshop, the sessions will follow the HBLSS TOT method of modeling and practice teaching. The HBLSS manual will be used and sessions include:

• Model and practice teach Community Meeting 1: Introduction
• Model and practice conducting pre/post test using the HBLSS Skills Checklist
• Overview of schedule, daily evaluation and adult learning methods
• Model and practice teach Community Meeting 2: Woman and Baby Problems
• Model and practice teach Community Meeting 4: Referral
• Review of the HBLSS program Ethiopia and Liberia case studies
• Orient to the HBLSS Guidelines for Decision Makers and Trainers
• Assessment and monitoring of an HBLSS program

Faculty:
Diana Beck, CNM, MS is presently a Senior Technical Advisor with ACNM’s Department of Global Outreach. Ms. Beck has practiced full-scope midwifery in a variety of settings, established a midwifery service, and was nurse-midwifery faculty at Georgetown University.  With over 20 years of experience in international maternal and reproductive health programs she has worked in more than 17 countries.  Her international experiences includes program design, implementation, evaluation, training, and curriculum development for traditional birth attendant training, in-service and pre-service training of nurses, midwives and doctors, as well as midwifery association strengthening.  She is the co-author of the ACNM Home Based Life Saving Skills among other training manuals.

Sandra Tebben Buffington, CNM, MPH, PNP, FACNM began her career with ACNM in 1988.  Ms. Buffington is presently Senior Technical Advisor to ACNM.  With over 40 years of experience in international programs, she has trained TBAs in many countries, practiced as a clinical nurse-midwife and nurse practitioner for 13 years in Nigeria, designed community health workers training curricula and conducted training for nurse-midwife clinicians in Lesotho for 5 years and in Uganda for 2 years, co-authored the ACNM Life-Saving Skills Manual for Midwives & Home Based Life Saving Skills (HBLSS) manual, and implemented the HBLSS field-test in India and Ethiopia, worked with NGOs to expand the HBLSS program to selected areas of Haiti, Liberia, Afghanistan, and Ghana, developed proposals for HBLSS in Amazon Basin, Peru, Cameroon and Southern Sudan. She was inducted in the St. Francis Medical Center College of Nursing Alumni Hall of Fame in 2005 and received the Hattie Hemschemeyer Award in 2006.

Field Experience
We hope to offer you opportunities to use the skills you acquire during the workshop in the field, however we cannot promise field experience or that you will be hired by ACNM.  We will try our very best as opportunities arise to make it happen.  Your first field experience will most likely be as a volunteer consultant and priority is given to those who have participated in a Home Based LSS workshop.  The average field experience is 4-6 weeks.  There will be more discussion on this during the workshop. 

Logistics
The workshop will be held at Ramada Foothills Hotel, 6944 E. Tanque Verde Road, north-east of Tucson close to the Rincon Mountains and the Saguaro National Park - East.  Rooms will be shared by 2 participants. 

The registration cost per person for the workshop is $1200 for ACNM members and $1295 for nonmembers.  This includes room, breakfast, lunch, happy hour and a catered closing dinner, the 5-day workshop and a full set of the Home Based Life Saving Skills Manual, Guidelines for Decision Makers and Trainers, and teaching aids including learning to make a baby model for demonstrations.  
Each person is responsible for their own travel expenses.  We do need you to attend the entire workshop, so please make arrangements

Workshop Dates

For Workshop Number 7:
Arrive 27 July and leave 2 August for 5 full days of workshop 28 July - 1 August, 2008
OR
For Workshop Number 8:
Arrive 3 August and leave 9 August for 5 full days of workshop the 4 - 8 August, 2008

Cancellations
All cancellation notices must be submitted in writing. Registrants may expect to receive refunds four to six weeks after the conclusion of the workshop. Substitutions are permitted however, notification must be received in writing. Notification of substitution can be faxed to 240-485-1818 or mailed to the HBLSS Coordinator, Department of Global Outreach, ACNM.

Registration cancellation
A $50 cancellation fee will be assessed for all cancellations received on or before Monday, June 2, 2008. Between June 3 and June 30, a fee of 50% of the registration fee will be assessed. After Monday, June 30, 2007, cancellations due to extenuating circumstances (i.e., death, accident, illness) must be submitted in writing, must include appropriate verification, and must be received by HBLSS Coordinator, Department of Global Outreach, ACNM by Monday, August 11, 2008. No refunds will be granted for any reason after August 11, 2008.