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Annual Refresher: Updated Dignity in Pregnancy & Childbirth 

⏰ 30 minutes, includes optional activities 

🏆 0.5 Continuing Education credit available (ANCC) / 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits (ACCME)

📜 Certificate of Completion

⚖️ Designed for Minnesota's Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act annual refresher requirements, Minnesota Statute § 144.1461

Refresh Practical Skills for Consistent, Respectful Perinatal Care

Providing consistently high-quality perinatal care can be difficult under the real conditions of clinical practice. Time pressure, cognitive load, competing demands, and incomplete information can all influence how quickly we assess a situation, communicate with a patient, and make decisions.

The Minnesota Annual Refresher: Updated Dignity in Pregnancy & Childbirth revisits key concepts and practical tools from the original course and connects them to current challenges in perinatal care.

Rather than adding more information to remember, the course focuses on usable strategies that help clinicians maintain decision accuracy, communication consistency, and respectful care during demanding patient encounters.

Minnesota's Annual Refresher Requirement

Minnesota's Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act requires hospitals with obstetric care and birth centers to make an annual refresher course available as part of their continuing education program for direct-care employees and contractors who routinely care for patients who are pregnant or postpartum.

The annual refresher is designed to keep the education current and connected to evolving evidence, clinical practice, and the topics identified in Minnesota law.

Course Format

Self-paced online learning designed to fit into a busy clinical schedule.

The course includes video learning, job aids, essential reading, and reflective activities that help connect the material to real patient care situations.

Learners can move through the course at their own pace and return to sections as needed.

A certificate of completion is provided at the end of the course.

Who Should Complete the Annual Refresher?

This course is designed for Minnesota healthcare professionals participating in their organization's Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth continuing education program.

Minnesota hospitals with obstetric care and birth centers are responsible for making the required continuing education available to direct-care employees and contractors who routinely care for pregnant or postpartum patients.

This can include professionals who provide direct care to pregnant patients even when their primary role does not involve labor or delivery.

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