Midwifery During ParturitionLaajuus (7 cr)

Objective

Midwifery during Parturition 7 cr

Objective
- Students will learn to plan, administer, document and assess the basic and obstetrical care of the parturient woman throughout childbirth.
- Students will understand the childbirth process and changes in it from the perspective of the woman and the foetus.
- Students will learn to provide guidance, advice and care to parturient women and their families.
- Students will learn to assess the mother’s need for pain relief throughout childbirth.
- Students will learn to independently plan and administer pain relief using nursing methods to the parturient woman.
- Students will know how to administer medicinal pain relief to the parturient woman in cooperation with the physician.
- Students will learn to independently deliver a baby in low-risk childbirth.
- Students learn to anticipate and identify cases where a low-risk delivery is turning into a high-risk delivery

Content

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Midwifery at Different Stages of Parturition
- Normal childbirth
- Planning, administration and evaluation of care for safe childbirth in different operating environments
- Assessment of the progress of childbirth and monitoring methods
- Assessment of the condition of the foetus and monitoring methods
- Pain relief during childbirth
- Clinical skills of midwifery during childbirth
- Documentation

Immediate Treatment of Newborns
- A healthy newborn
- Emergency care of newborns
- Support for early interaction and first-time breastfeeding
- Assessment and monitoring of the newborn’s health after childbirth and during intensified observation

Midwifery in High-Risk Deliveries
- Risk factors in childbirth
- Changes in the condition of the foetus and the parturient woman
- Problems in childbirth
- Clinical skills in high-risk deliveries
- The areas of responsibility and operation of different professional groups in a complicated delivery

Obstetrics and Pharmacology
Objectives
- Students will learn about the causes, symptoms and care of pathological pregnancies and deliveries and know how to act appropriately.
- Students will learn key and current pharmacological information in their field.
- Students will learn to read a CTG.
- Students will learn to assist the parturient woman in cases of shoulder dystocia.
- Students gain competence in childbirth analgesia.

Contents
- Pathological pregnancy
- Abnormal deliveries
- CTG and its interpretation
- Shoulder dystocia
- Current pharmacology