Prenatal Midwifery (5 cr)
Code: 7031577-3001
General information
Enrollment
12.11.2019 - 12.01.2020
Timing
07.01.2020 - 16.02.2020
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
2 op
Mode of delivery
60 % Contact teaching, 40 % Distance learning
Unit
Health and Well-being
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
10 - 30
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Tiina Murto
- Marjatta Häsänen
- Sanna Virtanen
Groups
-
PKÄTIS17
Objective
Prenatal Midwifery 5 cr
Support for Growing up into Parenthood
Objectives
- Students will learn to give advice, guidance and treatment to women and families in the planning and progress of pregnancy.
- Students will know how to monitor the health of the woman and the foetus during pregnancy.
- Students will learn to anticipate and identify risks for and complications in pregnancy.
- Students will know how to monitor the health of the woman and the foetus during a risk pregnancy, and provide treatment as a member of a multiprofessional team.
Content
Contents
- Pregnancy planning
- Support for growing up into parenthood
- Family and childbirth education
Prenatal Monitoring and Consultancy
- Pregnancy diagnosis and progress, prenatal changes
- Embryology
- Monitoring and care of low-risk pregnancies
- Screenings
- Foetal diagnostics
- Prenatal health advice
Monitoring and Treatment of High-Risk Pregnancies
- High-risk pregnancies
- Prenatal complications
- Monitoring and treatment of high-risk pregnancies
- Support for growing up into parenthood in high-risk pregnancies
- Fear of childbirth
Evaluation scale
H-5