EBB 201 - Bridging the Gap Between Evidence and Human Rights with Perinatal Nurse and Nurse Educator, Paula Richards
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.6 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On today's podcast we're going to talk with Paula Richards about advocacy work as a trauma-informed nurse educator.
Paula Richards (she/her) is a perinatal nurse and nurse educator who likes to nerd out about OB-related nursing professional development on Instagram under the handle @NurseBrownGirl. Paula joined the Evidence Based Birth® Instructor program in the spring of 2020 and she's also a guest teacher in the videos of our Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class where we talk about interventions during childbirth.
We talk about Paula’s journey to become a nurse and her experience of unlearning traumatic childbirth practices that are problematic and harmful for birthing people. We also talk about the gap between evidence, human rights, and actual practice, as well as the need for more ethical nurse education.
Content warning: We will talk about traumatic childbirth and obstetric abuse. This episode also contains strong language, swear words, and how binary language/terminology is routinely used in labor and delivery.
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RESOURCES:
Learn more about Paula Richards on Instagram here.
Learn more about The Business of Being Born here.
Learn more about “Are There Benefits to Uterine Massage in the Third Stage of Labor” here.
Learn more about the Association of Women's Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) here.
Learn more about “white supremacy culture” by Tema Okun here.
Learn more about Cristen Pascucci and Birth Monopoly here.
Learn more about Mandy Irby of The Birth Nurse here.
Learn more about Maggie Runyon of Your Birth Partners Podcast here.
For more information and news about Evidence Based Birth®, visit www.ebbirth.com. Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EvidenceBasedBirth/), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ebbirth/), and Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/ebbirth/). Ready to get involved? Check out our Professional membership (including scholarship options) (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/become-pro-member/). Find an EBB Instructor here (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/find-an-instructor-parents/), and click here (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/childbirth-class/) to learn more about the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Paula Richards about |
| 0:04.3 | advocacy work as a trauma-informed nurse educator. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my |
| 0:16.7 | PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals around the world. |
| 0:28.0 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:31.0 | See EB-B EB birth.com |
| 0:33.1 | slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:37.8 | Hi everyone and welcome to today's episode |
| 0:40.5 | of the Evidence-based birth podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker, |
| 0:44.1 | pronouns she-her and I will be your host for today's episode. We are so excited to |
| 0:49.3 | welcome our guest, Paula Richards. If there are any specific content or trigger warnings we will post |
| 0:55.0 | them in the description or show notes that go along with this episode. But just |
| 0:59.4 | a heads up we will be talking about traumatic childbirth and there may be some strong language and |
| 1:04.2 | swear words in this episode. |
| 1:06.9 | And now I'd like to introduce our honored guest. |
| 1:09.2 | Hollow Richards, she-her, is a human who has been answering what are you since 1993. |
| 1:16.0 | She also happens to work as a paradled nurse and nurse educator and likes to nerd out |
| 1:21.4 | about OB related nursing professional development on |
| 1:25.3 | Instagram under the handle at Nurse Brown Girl. |
| 1:29.5 | Paula joined the Evidence-Based Birth instructor program in the spring of 2020, |
| 1:34.4 | and she's also a guest teacher in the videos of our evidence-based birth |
| 1:38.1 | child birth class when we talk about interventions during childbirth. |
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