For Nurses

Refresher: Updated Dignity in Pregnancy & Childbirth

⏰ 30 minutes, includes optional activities 

🏆 0.5 Continuing Education credit available (ANCC) 

📜 Certificate of Completion

This course reinforces and refreshes knowledge gained from the Dignity in Pregnancy & Childbirth course.

Skills that are not used deliberately can fade, especially the split-second habits that shape how nurses assess, communicate, and advocate under pressure. A refresher is a short, focused course that brings those skills back to front of mind and updates them with current evidence, so strong bedside practice does not quietly drift over time.

This 30-minute refresher is for nurses who completed Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth about two years ago. It reinforces the core, evidence-based tools for consistent, high-quality perinatal care, sharpens the in-the-moment techniques that interrupt automatic cognitive shortcuts before they affect an encounter, and adds practical strategies and insights introduced since the original course.

Why every two years? Research on adult learning shows that brief, spaced reinforcement is one of the most reliable ways to make skills durable. A single training produces a strong initial effect that naturally weakens as the months pass and a demanding workload pulls practice back toward old defaults. A short booster at regular intervals restores that effect, keeps a whole nursing team practicing consistently, and does it at a fraction of the time and cost of the full course.

For nurses stretched thin, that is the point: real reinforcement in half an hour, with steadier judgment, clearer communication, and more confidence to carry into the next shift.

What You Gain

A brief, high-value reset that keeps your most important perinatal care skills sharp and current.

For Nurses

  • Renewed command of practical tools you can use at the bedside on your next shift
  • Reinforcement of the habits that keep assessment and communication consistent under pressure
  • The latest evidence-based strategies and updates added since the original course
  • Trauma-informed communication practices that strengthen patient trust
  • Less workplace stress and more confidence through smoother patient interactions
  • 0.5 ANCC contact hours and a certificate of completion

For Organizations

  • A low-time-cost way to keep perinatal skills from eroding across your nursing workforce
  • Consistent practice across nurses, shifts, and units
  • A documented, repeatable two-year reinforcement cycle that supports quality and reporting goals
  • Evidence-based content with measurable objectives, ready for unit or system-wide assignment

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:


  • Apply evidence-based strategies to deliver consistent, high-quality perinatal nursing care across varied patients, settings, and clinical situations.

  • Explain how multiple, interacting aspects of a patient's background and circumstances can shape their perinatal care experience, interactions, and outcomes.

  • Recognize how automatic cognitive shortcuts, which can arise under time pressure, high patient loads, and stress, may influence perinatal assessment and communication, and apply in-the-moment tools to interrupt them.

  • Use respectful, individualized communication that reflects how each patient wishes to be identified and addressed, strengthening patient-nurse trust.

  • Integrate trauma-informed care principles into daily practice so perinatal patients feel respected, understood, and supported.

  • Strengthen professional confidence and reduce workplace stress by improving the consistency and clarity of patient engagement and communication.

Course Format

Video elearning, job aids, essential reading, and reflective activities. The self-paced format allows you to learn at your convenience.

Who Should Enroll

Nurses who completed Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth approximately two years ago and want to refresh and update their skills, including labor and delivery, mother-baby and postpartum, antepartum, NICU, and OB triage nurses.

Prerequisite: This course builds on the original and is designed to reinforce, not replace, it. If you have not taken Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth, start there.

For organizations: Recommended as a scheduled two-year booster for perinatal nursing teams, well suited to routine reassignment as part of an ongoing quality and safety cycle.

Why do Optum Health, Mayo Clinic, Boston Scientific, Hospital Association of New York, HealthPartners, Cleveland Clinic, the Permanente Medical Group, Sutter Health, Confluence Health, The Indiana Hospital Association, and the California Health Care Foundation, among others, choose our courses?

In their words:

#unmatched expertise | #the best we have seen | #truly evidence-based  | #top marks from our doctors | #head & shoulders above the rest  

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