The TeamBirth Implementation Pathway.
The Implementation Pathway provides an evidence-based foundation for a roadmap of activities that guide effective and sustainable TeamBirth practice and culture change.
Our implementation guidance and resources describe what is core for each activity, along with the range of options and examples for adapting the solution to your site's context.
Guidance, training, and tools for every phase.
Everything your team needs to socialize, train, implement, and sustain TeamBirth, all in one place.
Introduction Resources
Build awareness and buy-in with the Why TeamBirth video, infographics, a components overview, the data 3-pager, and publications. Share with prospective partners or clinicians.
Access PackageStaff Training Content
Train providers, nurses, and clinical teams with videos, one-pagers, word banks, and huddle practice scenarios. Also available as SCORM packages for your LMS.
Access TrainingDiscussion & Support Guides
The Admission, Labor Support, and Assisted Delivery discussion guides, available in eleven languages for the families you serve.
Access GuidesImplementation How-To Resources
Step-by-step guidance for building your team, developing strategy, adapting your Shared Planning Tool, and conducting patient surveying, plus checklists and overviews.
Access How-ToTemplates & Examples
Editable templates and real examples: the Shared Planning Tool, board evaluation and patient survey forms, huddle observation forms, and more.
Access TemplatesDoula Resources
A growing set of resources to support doulas throughout TeamBirth, including a clinician's guide to integrating doulas in the hospital setting.
Get the GuideMaterials for your in-person training day.
Our on-site sessions walk clinical teams through integrating TeamBirth on their own unit. These are the materials we train from, yours to print, share, and keep using afterward.
TeamBirth Word Bank
Patient-friendly example language for every section of the Shared Planning Tool: Team, Preferences, Plan, and Next Huddle. Includes the questions to ask and checklists spanning labor, pushing, cesarean birth, and bereavement.
Get the Word Bank‘When to Huddle’ Guide
A door-to-door map of the key moments that spark a huddle, from triage through discharge, sorted into initial, key decisions and changes to the care plan, and routine. Built for teams to adapt to their own unit.
Get the GuideTeamBirth Core Components
What is required and what is optional. Structured team huddles and the Shared Planning Tool are the core; the discussion guides are add-ons. Defines the four key behaviors every huddle should hit, with guidance on adapting each piece to your unit.
Get the OverviewHuddle Debrief Guide
Debrief prompts grouped by Team, Preferences, Plan, Next Huddle, and general communication, each with a follow-up question. Pairs with the Huddle Observation Form so champions can turn what they saw into coaching.
Get the Debrief GuideTeamBirth Data 2-Pager
The evidence in two pages: patient-reported autonomy by race and ethnicity, NTSV cesarean rates, clinician teamwork and job satisfaction, and national spread. Built for leadership and quality committees.
Get the 2-PagerNot sure where to start?
Our implementation team can help you build a plan tailored to your site and guide you to the right resources. Reach out and we will walk it through with you.
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