Redefining Maternal & Infant Health

 The purpose of Nurturing Equity-Minded Healthcare Providers is to provide evidence-based  learning exercises and case studies that relate to each book chapter and will help deepen  the learner’s understanding of providing equitable care. In Nurturing Equity-Minded Healthcare Providers Workbook, you’ll learn the values of: 

• Exploring one’s own personal development in becoming a well-balanced  healthcare provider 

• Processing historical data in order to understand and reform present day  structural racism in obstetric care  

• Understanding the impact of weathering in health disparities 

• Understanding how epigenetics inform marginalized communities and their trust in the medical field 

• Learning about Trauma-Informed Care in order to be an empathetic healthcare provider

* Family Centered-Care in the NICU

* Language and Communication Matters in the NICU

• Challenging your own implicit biases with openness and humility 

• Integrating cultural empathy 

• Integrating team (multidisciplinary) based care to optimize better outcomes  and resources for your patients 

• Integrating active listening in your care so that you can advocate for your patient  with clarity 

• Caring with H.E.A.R.T. (Hear her, Empathize with her, Advocate for her, Respect her,  and Trust her voice) in order to provide best practices for all patients and partners/ support systems 

• Increasing diversity in your workforce 

• Maintaining ongoing DEI training and education to eradicate workplace racism amid clinical staff.  

In recent years, healthcare providers have been tasked to integrate DEI training for their hospitals, clinics and agencies to advocate for evidenced based care with an equity lens in order  to mitigate vast disparities in Black maternal mortality and infant mortality. Our hope is that  this learning workbook will help prepare you for this role by facilitating your own personal  development as an equity healthcare provider. This workbook is designed to equip you with  the educational tools and skills to disrupt systemic racism by transforming healthcare institutions with a new understanding of equitable care