ICEA Confirmed Birth Doulas are prepared experts who perceive birth as a critical educational encounter. They support women’s physical, close-to-home, and social necessities in labour. Moreover, they offer direction and references to local area assets concerning maternal taking care of oneself, lactation, and different issues appropriate to healthy nurturing through the initial month and a half post-pregnancy.
Certification Outline and Educational program
The ICEA Birth Doula Certification Program confirms that birth doulas have the fundamental schooling and abilities to empower them to work with hopeful guardians’ mental and physical groundwork for pregnancy, labour, birth and being a parent.
The program advances the idea of the birth doula as a supporter of the regular course of childbirth and the right of the eager parent to pursue informed choices in light of information on other options. Following is the educational program plan:
- Part I – Presenting the Doula
- Part II – Meeting Your Clients
- Part III – Labor: An Outline
- Part IV – Labor: The Interaction
- Part V – Solace Measures, Adapting Abilities, and Relief from discomfort
- Part VI – Family Joining
- Part VII – Adapting to the Uncommon
- Part VIII – Business Matters
The ICEA Ensured Birth Doula is supposed to add a more extensive comprehension of ICEA’s main goal and reasoning among well-being experts and people in general.
Certification Pathways
We offer two unique pathways for certification as a birth doula:
Customary – This pathway for certification is the best decision for you if:
- You have next to zero insight as a birth doula
- You are a layperson who is focused on aiding childbearing families
- You are a nurse or other birth proficient who needs to extend your administration
EXPERIENCED – This pathway for certification is the best decision for you if:
- You are presently ensured with one more perceived birth doula association, like DONA or CAPPA or Lamaze or Bradley, and have been effectively rehearsing for at least two years.
- You have been confirmed as a birth doula within the most recent two years through ICEA or one more perceived birth doula association, for example, DONA or CAPPA or Lamaze or Bradley, and effectively rehearsed for at least two years while guaranteed. Yet, your certification has expired in the most recent two years.
ICEA Certification Applicant Qualifications
This certification program is accessible to any birth doula who maintains and rehearses ICEA’s way of thinking about family-focused maternity care and the opportunity to settle on choices given information on options in childbirth.
This program doesn’t reject a generally qualified individual because of an instructive or proficient foundation. No certified by and by affirmed birth doula will be barred from entering the ICEA Birth Doula Certification Program.
The Assessment
The ICEA Birth Doula Certification assessment is intended to test for exhaustive information on the essential substance in childbirth and being a birth doula. The evaluation depends exclusively on the goals framed in the eight pieces of the ICEA birth doula educational plan.
The assessment comprises 100 decision questions; no short responses or article questions exist. The review is an online “closed book” test and should have a delegate present during the whole ordeal. Two hours are given to finish the assessment. The score depends on the number of correct responses.
ICEA Certification possibility for whom English is a subsequent language should contact the workplace as an assessment might be accessible in their essential language.
If an evaluation isn’t accessible in their primary language, then, at that point, ICEA Certification competitors might utilize a non-clinical essential language/English word reference and will be furnished with three hours to finish the assessment. The ICEA office should tell, in composing, of these special requirements when the certification assessment application and charge are submitted.
Applying to Take the Assessment
ICEA Certification competitors have as long as two years from the date they signed up for the ICEA Certification program or took the ICEA Ensuring Studio, whichever started things out, to finish the program necessities and apply for the ICEA Certification assessment. Assuming over two years pass without already using for and being conceded an expansion, up-and-comers must re-sign for the program and complete all the prerequisites.
Assessment applications won’t be acknowledged unless finished, and test instalments won’t be handled until the complete test application is confirmed. A test application incorporates every required structure, check, assessment date, test area, delegate’s name and email, and full instalment.
Applying for an Expansion
An ICEA Certification up-and-comer might apply for a solitary half-year expansion of the test application cutoff time to finish the prerequisites.
The application for augmentation and $75 (USD) expansion expense should be gotten in short order.
To apply for the expansion, the Augmentation Solicitation Structure should be finished and returned by email/fax/mail to the ICEA Certification Facilitator, alongside the $75 (USD) expansion charge. The ICEA Certification Facilitator will answer recorded as a hard copy through email within 15 work-long periods of receipt that the expansion has been conceded.
Each ICEA Certification applicant is ready to apply for one augmentation for every certification period.
Booking Your Assessment
All assessments are given online at the testing area picked by the ICEA Certification up-and-comer, yet a delegate should be available for the whole test.
The testing area might be any open structure where the competitor approaches a computer and a solid internet association. Competitors might apply to take the assessment in any state, territory or nation and are not restricted to taking the examination in their neighbourhood geographic region.
A review can be booked by finishing and presenting the ICEA Birth Doula Certification Assessment Application. All assessments should be booked somewhere around 30 days preceding the assessment date. This remembers any mentioned changes for booked inspections. The online link for the ICEA Certification applicant’s test will be messaged to the delegate fourteen days ahead of the testing date.
Reviewing of the Assessment
All ICEA Certification assessments are taken online; in this way, ICEA Certification competitors will quickly know their outcomes upon culmination. Every competitor with a passing score of 70% or above is viewed as an ICEA Confirmed Birth Doula, an ICBD. ICEA will give a true testament through email within 15 long work periods of finishing to the individuals who have effectively completed the program. All ICEA Ensured Experts who keep up with their ICEA Certification will approach all ICEA Advantages.
If an ICEA Certification competitor bombs the test, ICEA will email the up-and-comer another assessment application to retake the test. The ICEA Certification competitor will be charged an expense, given the geographic area for each test retake. These applicants will have one year to breeze through the assessment. They might retake the examination however many times as vital in somewhere around one year of the first bomb date, giving recurrent rules are adhered to.
Assessments governed as invalid will be treated as bombed assessments, and the ICEA Certification Up-and-comer will have one year to retake the assessment per the rules.
Certification Assignment
Upon effective finishing of the ICEA Birth Doula Test, a birth doula will be qualified for use ICBD and the expression “ICEA Guaranteed Birth Doula” to assign certification status and to show that the birth doula is ICEA Ensured.
Recertification
ICEA is devoted to keeping a thorough norm of greatness, and subsequently, all ICEA certifications have been substantial for quite some time. Toward the consummation of the three years, all ICEA Confirmed Birth Doulas should apply for recertification.
ICEA accepts that birth doulas consistently instruct themselves and gain from their clients. Recertification approves the obligation to the calling and guarantees the continuation of getting the advantages of the ICEA connection.
View Recertification for more data. If an ICEA birth doula neglects recertification by its termination date, it should follow our Expired Certification Policy to recapture its certification.
