WHY BECOME LAMAZE CERTIFIED
A Lamaze educator is a skilled and knowledgeable teacher who guides women and their families through the extraordinary journey of pregnancy and birth. Integrating traditional wisdom and contemporary knowledge with the high-tech world of modern obstetrics, Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educators provide women and their families with evidence-based education on nature's simple plan for birth. LCCE educators work collaboratively with other birth professionals to advance the mission of Lamaze International -- to promote, support and protect normal birth through education and advocacy – and to achieve the Lamaze vision for “a world of confident women choosing normal birth.”
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For nearly 50 years, Lamaze International has been the leading provider of evidence-based education programs that prepare childbirth educators to teach with skill and confidence. The Lamaze certification program meets the highest standards for validity, reliability and fairness and is recognized as the only such program accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), the accrediting body of the National Organization of Competency Assurance (NOCA). For more information regarding NOCA and the NCCA, please visit the NOCA Web site at www.noca.org.
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Flexible eligibility requirements make Lamaze certification achievable for experienced childbirth educators, midwives and midwifery students, doulas, nurses, and other health professionals as well as those new to childbirth education. The Lamaze credential, demonstrates to maternal-child health professionals and expectant families that a standard level of knowledge and skill has been achieved – the LCCE credential is the mark of a competent, highly qualified childbirth educator. The purpose or goal of Lamaze certification is to provide childbirth educators who work as advocates for childbearing women throughout the world.
Certification by Lamaze is the most respected and recognized credential in childbirth education. Lamaze certification offers you the opportunity to:
· Gain and validate skills and knowledge
· Increase confidence in your teaching ability
· Enhance professional opportunities and career development
· Expand knowledge of resources and teaching strategies
· Earn the recognition and respect of colleagues
· Demonstrate competence to expectant women and their families
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“I love what I do. I have been an LCCE educator since 2000 and have loved every bit. I feel I have made a difference…I have had the opportunity to help women and their mates build the confidence needed to try to have a normal and natural birth…I love hearing their success stories." K. Thomas, LCCE Program Candidate Click here to find the right Lamaze Accredited Program for you. |
COMPETENCY STATEMENTS FOR LCCE EDUCATORS
A Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE) is able to:
• Promote the childbearing experience as a normal, natural, healthy process that profoundly
affects women and their families.
• Assist women and families to discover and use strategies that facilitate normal, natural, healthy
pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and early parenting.
• Help women and their families to understand how interventions and complications influence the
normal course of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and early parenting.
• Provide information and support that encourages attachment between babies and their families.
• Assist women and their families to make informed decisions for childbearing.
• Act as an advocate to promote normal, natural, healthy, fulfilling childbirth experiences for
women and their families.
• Design, teach and evaluate a course in Lamaze preparation that increases a woman's
confidence and ability to give birth.
THREE PATHWAYS TO CERTIFICATION
Depending on your level of experience…
Lamaze International offers three flexible pathways to certification, making the certification accessible and achievable. Lamaze International welcomes experienced childbirth educators; health professionals, such as doulas and midwives; as well as those new to the healthcare field and to childbirth education to enroll in the Lamaze childbirth educator program or to attend a training seminar.
Select your pathway to Lamaze Childbirth Educator Certification:
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“I feel very prepared for writing the course syllabus, which before seemed like a daunting task. Now I am excited to get started.” K. Tallon Program Candidate Click here to find the right Lamaze Accredited Program for you |
LAMAZE CERTIFICATION EXAM:
2007 Exam Dates:
April 25, 2007 -
Application deadline: March 30 , 2007
October 26, 2007
Application deadline: October 1, 2007
For Exam Information - click here
Congratulations to Exam Candidates Who Successfully Sat for the Exam:
علت تایید و مجاز شمرده شدن لاماز چیست :
یک آموزش دهنده لاماز یک کاردان و آموزگار دانش آموخته و مطلع است که زنان و خانواده های آنان را برای یک دوره فوق العاده و شگفت انگیز زایمان و تولد ، با مخلوط کردن فهم و دانش سنتی و دانش های جدید جهت بالا بردن علم مامایی مدرن و به روز جهانی راهنمایی می کند وضع حمل مجاز و تایید شده بوسیله لاماز آموزش دهنده ها دلایل و مدارک اساسی را برای زنان و خانواده های آن ها در مورد طرح ساده طبیعی برای تولد فراهم کرده است آموزش دهندگانlcce بطور مشترک با دیگر افرادمتخصص تولد کار می کنند تا رسالت بیت المللی لاماز را گسترش داده و بالا ببرند حمایت و حفاظت معمول تولد بواسطه آموزش و دفاع و دست یافتن به زمینه ذهنی از لاماز برای یک جهان در جهت اطمینان زنان در داشتن یک تولد طبیعی ازجمله رسالت آنان است تقریبا 50 سال کمیسیون بین المللی لاماز در جهت فراهم آوردن شواهدی مبنی بر برنامه های آموزشی که آموزش دهندگان زایمان را آماده می کرد تا مهارت و تعلیم پیدا کنند حرکت کرد برنامه های تایید شده مجاز با بالاترین استاندارد اعتبار ،پایانی و زیبایی و بیطرفی معرفی شدن و بعنوان برنامه معتبر بوسیله سازمان بین المللی نمایندگی های معتبر(noca) شناخته شد. هیات معتبر سازمان بین المللی صلاحیت و اطمینان برای اطلاعات بیشتر راجع به noca ,ncca لطفا noca را در وب سایت www. Noca. Orj
مشاهده فرمایید قابلیت انعطاف پذیری نیاز باعث شد لاماز تایید شده به آموزش دهندگان ورزیده زایمان دست بیابد ماما ها و دنشجویان مامایی ، پرستاران ، و دیگر مشاغل بهداشتی به طور خیلی عالی آموزش های جدید را دیدند لاماز به صورت معتبر نشان داد که کودکان مادری مشاغل بهداشتی و خانواده های در انتظار کهیک سطح استاندارد برای دانش و مهارت کسب کرده اند . lcee گواهی صلاحیت و کاردان بودن را به عنوان مدرک آموزش دهندگان زایمان با کیفیت عالی به آنان می دهد
هدف نهایی و کلی لاماز تایید شده، فراهم آوردن آموزش دهندگان زایمان است که بعنوان یک حامی برای زنان باردار در سر تا سر جهان کار کنند گواهی های صادر شده بوسله لاماز قابل قبول توسط بیشتر مو سسه های آموزشی است اعتبارات لاماز فرصتی را برای شما ایجاب می کند :
· افزایش اطمینان در شایسته بودن آموزش شما
· فراهم کردن فرصت های شغلی و حرفه های توسعه دهنده اقتصاد
· گسترش منابع دانش و استراتز ی های آموزشی
· بدست آوردن تصدیق و احترام همکاران
ثابت کردن صلاحیت زنان باردار و خانواده هایشان
