American Midwifery Certification Board- Certified Nurse Midwife

Barbara Reale, DNP, CNM, FACNM is an Assistant Professor and the program director of the Institute of Midwifery at Thomas Jefferson University. Formerly, she was an Advanced Senior Lecturer in the Nurse-Midwifery Program at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing. She has practiced midwifery since 1989, in a variety of settings, including a free-standing birth center, as Clinical Director of an adolescent health center, in private practice at a community hospital and in at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She has been clinical preceptor for midwifery students since 1991, Family Practice residents since 2001, and OB/GYN residents since 2014. Barbara has a post-master’s certification in Teacher Education, and was a Fulbright Scholar in 2009, focusing on Midwifery Teacher Education in Trinidad and Tobago. Barbara holds a BA in Government from Cornell University, a BSN from Columbia University, and an MSN and DNP from the University of Pennsylvania. She has received the ACNM Excellence in Teaching Award and Regional Award for Excellence, and served as the Education Section Chair for the American College of Nurse-Midwives Division of Global Health. She served 5 years as a member of the NJ Board of Medical Examiners Nurse-Midwifery Liaison Committee and for many years on the Legislative Committee of the NJ Affiliate of the ACNM. Her areas of interest include the use of simulation, shoulder dystocia, normal labor and birth, group prenatal care, and interprofessional education.

• Reale, B. (2018) Appendix 28A, Hand Maneuvers for Birth; Appendix 28C Genital Tract Injury;
• Appendix 28D, Local Infiltration for Laceration and Repair; Appendix 28E, Pudendal Nerve Block for Vaginal Birth; Appendix 28F, Repair of Genital Tract Lacerations and Episiotomy, in K. Osborne, and C. Jevitt (eds). Varney's Midwifery. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 1437-1447 & 1453-1481.
• McCool, W., Guidera, M., Reale, B. Smith, A. and Koucoi, J. (2013). Professional issues related to obstacles to midwifery practice in the Americas: A pilot survey. Midwifery, 29, 838-844.
• Miesnik, S. and Reale, B. (2007). A review of issues surrounding medically elective cesarean delivery.Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, 36, 605-615.
• Reale, B. (2002). Intrapartum care in the twenty-first century. Nursing Clinics of North America, 37, 771-779.
• National Institutes of Health (1989). Caring for Our Future: The Content of Prenatal Care, US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service; Publication No.90-3182; GPO, Washington, DC. Assisted in editing background papers.

• August 2020 - CenteringPregnancy® vs. Traditional Prenatal Care, presenter, MidwiferyThinks Annual Symposium, 2020
• May 2020 - Occiput Posterior 20/20, co-presenter, American College of Nurse-Midwives 65^th Annual Meeting 
• January 2019 - Workshop presenter on skills to support normal physiologic birth, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• August 2018 - Labor interventions, lecture and simulation, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Residency Program
• June 2018 - Normal Labor and Birth, lecture and simulation, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Residency Program
• June 2017 - Normal Labor and Birth, lecture and simulation, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Residency Program
• February 2016 - Labor Dystocia, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Residency Program
• October 2015 - Normal Physiologic Birth: History and Evidence, Grand Rounds, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
• June 2015 
• Inter-specialty Obstetric Emergency Simulations in Advanced Practice Nursing Midwifery Education
• American College of Nurse-Midwives, Annual Meeting 2015, Washington, DC
• July 2014 - Shoulder Dystocia Workshop – American College of Nurse-Midwives, Pennsylvania Affiliate, Lancaster, PA
• May 2012
• Simulation in Limited Resource Setting: Education and Evaluation
• 57^th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Long Beach, CA 
• April 2012
• Shoulder Dystocia; Postpartum Hemorrhage
• Trinidad and Tobago Association of Midwives
• Mount Hope Maternity Hospital, Curepe, Trinidad
• June 2011
• Midwifery Education Roundtable, facilitator
• 56^th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, San Antonio, TX
• June 2010 
• A Collaborative Model of Faculty and Curriculum Development in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
• 55^th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Washington, DC
• May 2010
• Simulation in a Low Resource Setting 
• International Confederation of Midwives Americas Regional Conference, Kingston, Jamaica
• Integrating Evidence-Based Practice into Midwifery Clinical Management: A Workshop Using Selected Obstetrical Emergencies
• International Confederation of Midwives Americas Regional Conference, Kingston, Jamaica
• April 2009
• Maternal Assessment and Evidence-Based Interventions in the First Stage of Labour, San Fernando
• General Hospital, San Fernando, Trinidad
• March 2009 - Cardiotocography, Mount Hope Maternity Hospital, Curepe, Trinidad
• June 2008
• Symposium: Global Partnership Models for the Improvement of Maternal-Infant Health
• 28^th Triennial Congress of the ICM, Glasgow, Scotland
• October 2007 - Shoulder Dystocia. Grand Rounds Presentation, Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington, NJ & Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia, PA      
• June 2007 - Obstetric Hemorrhage, Hunterdon Medical Center Flemington, NJ