
Catherine
Enenbach,
MSN-Ed, RN, C-EFM
Creighton University
NE,
United States
Catherine Enenbach is a Registered Nurse and Instructor at Creighton University; she is a dedicated community volunteer, passionate about improving maternal health outcomes, and a loving mother to two beautiful children. She is a ‘13 Creighton ABSN graduate and has worked in Cardiac Intermediate Care, Labor and Delivery, and High Risk Obstetrics during her nursing career. She obtained her MSN-Educator from Nebraska Methodist College in 2020 doing her scholarly project on evaluating the effect of newborn rooming-in during the postpartum hospital stay on maternal exhaustion.
Presenting at CAB 2025:
Prehospital obstetrical or neonatal (OB/Neo) calls to emergency medical services (EMS) are more likely among patients of lower socioeconomic status and to result in an OB/Neo emergency. Paramedicine faculty have expressed the need for paramedic learners (PML) to increase confidence in these skills to promote health equity and improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes. Limited literature in use of simulation-based experiences (SBE) in prehospital settings have demonstrated improved confidence among EMS and the Zone of Simulation framework, indicates these scenarios fall into the high acuity-low occurrence quadrant, suggesting SBE may be advantageous over instruction. High-fidelity SBE improves confidence for learners in OB/Neo emergency situations.