Safely Reducing Cesareans Through Reducing Early Labor Admissions and Promoting Labor Progress

Michelle Telfer

Frontier Nursing University & Yale University School of Nursing

Michelle is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she received her BA in philosophy, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine where she received her master’s in public health in international health and development, and Columbia University where she received her bachelor’s in nursing and master’s degree in midwifery. She served two years in The Peace Corps in The Gambia, West Africa working in maternal child health. She has been at Yale University for six years where she is clinical faculty in both the School of Medicine OB Department and the School of Nursing in the Midwifery and Women’s Health Specialty and is now a lecturer. She practices full scope midwifery at the Vidone Birth Center at St. Raphael’s Campus of Yale New Haven Health. In March 2017, she received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Frontier Nursing University.

Abstract

Introduction: National healthcare and professional organizations have made reducing nulliparous, term, singleton, vertex (NTSV) cesareans a priority. Implementation of evidence-based bundles have demonstrated effectiveness in... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Michelle Telfer (Frontier Nursing University & Yale University School of Nursing)
  2. Diana Jolles (Frontier Nursing University)
  3. Jessica Illuzzi (Yale University School of Medicine)

Topic Areas

Prevalence and drivers of overuse , Harms of overuse (physical, psychological or system-related) , Shared decision making and patient-reported outcomes , Oversupply of providers (e.g. hospitals, physicians, etc) and technologies (e.g. imaging, , Organizational factors (such as structure and culture) that drive overuse

Session

PS-1 » Posters (concurrent w/ Lunch) (12:30 - Friday, 5th May, Rear of Salons 4 & 5)

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