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This is your solution!
Welcome to the Trauma Informed Birth Nurse Program
Your path to improving patient outcomes while reducing nurse trauma, burnout, and turnover.
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The first of its kind: a safe and gentle training space for nurses to develop a trauma-aware practice
Customizable program for hospitals who want to get started with trauma informed care.
Virtual and hybrid options available.
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A dynamic approach to lowering trauma risk for parents and nurses.
Research shows that when patients experience increased trauma, their nurses do, too. It’s all connected. So, we address all of it together.
Nurses are in a powerful position to lower those risks for everyone in the room, themselves included.
Our pro-nurse coaching, whole-team trainings, and programs address birth trauma and secondary trauma together.
Studies show we have the WORST maternal mortality of ALL wealthy nations
We can start to address this HUGE problem by addressing nurse traumatic stress.
Nurse turnover costs hospitals up to $88k/nurse & Nurse turnover rate is 27%/yr.
Under supported nurses & their secondary traumatic stress (STS) can contribute to these leaks.
The Trauma Informed Birth Nurse Program offers REAL solutions to help fix the leaks in the system.
TIBN Program
can help you address this…
STS Symptoms
Avoidance
Avoiding reminders of trauma, becoming numb to previously enjoyable activities.
Intrusion
Replaying the traumatic event.
Arousal
Agitation and intrusive symptoms.
So you can reduce this…
STS Consequences
Nurse Impacts:
Medical errors
Personal isolation
Altered emotional connections
Serious illness
Patient Impacts:
Medical errors
Altered emotional connections (nurse-patient relationship)
Workforce Impacts:
Medical errors
Interpersonal difficulty
Decreased work commitment
Altered world view
Absenteeism
Attrition
Considering leaving their nursing role or profession
And increase
This…
Transcendence:
Increased empathetic engagement
Positive post-traumatic growth
Perinatal Nurses:
Our #1 Job is to Empower You.
The Trauma Informed Birth Nurse Program is a catalyst for incredible outcomes
Our data supports it. (Read full study here.)
Nurse came in with traumatic stress
They felt safe, seen, heard while learning trauma-informed care. They had a better understanding & attitude toward providing trauma-informed care.
They left with less secondary traumatic stress symptoms. And started to love their job & life again!
In turn better outcomes, nurse retention, & stats for the hospital.
Study Conclusions: Nurses have an ethical and professional responsibility to provide psychologically safe, equitable, individualized patient care. Secondary traumatic stress is an anticipated workplace hazard of the perinatal care profession that is covertly contributing to important workforce challenges. A trauma-responsive approach to trauma informed perinatal care education is of double benefit to nurses; it supports individual learning styles and stress during tough topics and promotes the mitigation of bias and inadvertent mistreatment for psychologically safe, equitable care standards. Effective perinatal education will address the multilayered and nuanced realities of psychological trauma during childbirth to create safer working environments for nurses.
You're working on many benchmarks in healthcare. The Birth Nurse can help you make trauma-informed care the standard.
A trauma-informed perinatal paradigm includes psychological safe spaces for nurses as well as patients as we move toward safer care cultures.
Our Goals for Your Facility
Patient Satisfaction
- Prevent re-traumatization & traumatic birth
- Patients feel seen and heard
- Patient-centered care prioritizes autonomy, informed choice, active participation as leader of their care.
Perinatal Outcomes
- Shorter hospital stays, fewer readmissions
- Reduced rates of postpartum depression
- Mitigate barriers to care and health disparities
Decreased Cost
- Reduce unnecessary and costly interventions
- Reach quality metric benchmarks, elevate facility status, receive higher reimbursement
- Reduce staff burnout, decrease turnover rates
- Prevent adverse outcomes & reduce risk of malpractice claims
How The Birth Nurse® Helps
Improving Health Outcomes for Birthing Families.
A Virginia hospital reduced their cesarean rate by 50% after a whole-team Birth Nurse training.
Retaining Nursing Staff
Facilitate a psychologically safe trauma-aware team culture to support inherent workplace trauma, resilience, and rewarding nurse advocacy.
Reducing STSS in Nurses
Reduce staff secondary trauma scores through the training and off-site support groups. Prevent burnout and retain highly-trained staff.
Preventing Traumatic Births
Our experience-focused, evidence-based curriculum emphasizes individuals’ needs and equitable care, reducing perinatal morbidity and mortality, and strengthening community engagement.
How can this T.I.B.N. program benefit your hospital?
- Improve you hospital stats
- Reduce nurse turnover
- Increase patient satisfaction & outcomes, such as reduction of unnecessary c-section rates, postpartum hemorrhage, etc.
- Improve patient referrals, especially impactful for more competitive areas!
- Improve nurse engagement
- Reduce medical errors reduce patient conflict and miscommunication
- Reduce interpersonal issues with staff
- Reduce staff resentment and not loving their job anymore
- Increase perinatal quality collaboratives
- And more!
A solutions-focused, customizable TIC program for your nurse team!
Here’s a problem you may be facing
Here’s how TIBN can address that
Nurse Burnout
Spark the passion back into your nursing practice in the Hear from Experts: Birthing People module.
High nurse turnover
STS and burnout connected to higher rates of staff attrition, and this program has shown to reduce severity and symptoms of STS in perinatal nurses. Source.
How do I know who needs trauma-informed care? What type of care is appropriate with or without a disclosure of trauma?
Module: Advocacy in Action supports the nurses’ role to advocate for patients, even without a history of trauma disclosure.
Looking for ways to improve informed consent and reduce birth-related trauma
Module called: Investigate OB Mistreatment
Not sure how to promote trauma-free and supportive care environments for all birthing people
Module: Leverage Power and Privilege addresses common biases in perinatal healthcare practice and trauma-informed communication
But what do I chart? How do I correctly chart within a trauma-aware approach?
Module: Cover your butt: Defend Nursing Practice
But what about relationships with colleagues, family members, other staff, and outside of my work environment?
Module: Live Trauma Aware explores how trauma-informed care can be replicated in all relationships and can improve your own psychological safety and others’
When nurses feel alone in their trauma-informed care journey and they’re frustrated by the slow speed of change.
The Nurse Circle is a community of perinatal nurses around the world on their own TIC journeys. Plus, the workbook includes over 50 additional curated resources for continued learning from diverse content experts.
Nurse orientation needs a trauma aware approach
The TIBN program is virtual and can be stretched over a 3-6 mo time frame. Nurse residents can process through the material alongside their residency program
Emotionally Safe, Interactive Learning with the Whole Team
We’ll use scripting, role play, and patient case studies and stories in multimedia and hands-on learning. We’ll guide opportunities for compassionate self-reflection and processing. We’ll walk you through scenarios and exercises to apply what you’re learning right away… in measurable and actionable ways.
Feel a sense of relief that our approach is intentional and thoughtful and not going to harm the learners. We aim for an emotionally safe learning environment, so you don’t have to help your team recover.
What nurses are saying:
Together, we can make trauma-informed care (TIC) the industry standard.
Learn more about the Embodied Trauma-Informed Care Framework
Staff Healing & Capacity for Learning
Propel Culture Change with whole-team learning
Prioritize and center most vulnerable patients
Exceed Quality Improvement Metrics
First and Only Perinatal Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) Training
Does Nurse Professional Development make a difference? This study says YES.
In a groundbreaking study by the University of Iowa and the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health, the “PRO NURSE” approach to learning proved transformative. After implementing The Birth Nurse® (TIBN) training, hospitals saw reduced cesarean rates, lower perinatal morbidity, and improved patient outcomes. But the benefits didn’t stop there—nurses reported increased confidence in patient education and greater resilience, helping them better cope with the emotional toll of secondary traumatic stress. This evidence shows that investing in nurse development isn’t just about skills—it’s about improving outcomes for both patients and the nurses who care for them.
CORPORATE CASE STUDY
Iowa Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, University of Iowa and Alliance for innovation on Maternal Health Case Study.
What this study found!
REDUCED CESAREAN RATES
Iowa Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, University of Iowa and Alliance for innovation on Maternal Health Case Study.
REDUCED PERINATAL MORBIDITY
A quality initiative that improves perinatal patient safety, birthing experiences and reduces morbidity.
CONFIDENCE IN PATIENT EDUCATION
Nurse feedback indicates new skills are quickly integrated into practice and health promotion through patient education and trauma-responsive care.
Help your nurses avoid burnout and feel supported & empowered, so they can continue to do the work they love!
Bring Trauma-Informed Birth Nurse Program (TIBN) to your L&D Unit! Your Next Steps:
We’ll have a discovery zoom call to talk about your unique needs, wants for your team & facility
You’ll receive a customized and thorough plan, you’ll review, & we’ll schedule our training days!
We train your team! They’ll leave feeling confident & your hospital will start seeing incredible measurable improvements for your nurse team AND patients!
The yearly program schedule fills up really fast & planning takes couple months, so don’t wait! Need help figuring out financing ideas? Let’s talk!
Want a sneak peak inside the TIBN program?
Snag your FREE Debriefing at the Bedside PDF. A little taste of the tools available inside our nurse-only community membership!