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Prenatal Midwifery (5 cr)

Code: 7031577-3002

General information


Enrollment

02.12.2020 - 25.02.2021

Timing

11.01.2021 - 23.04.2021

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

1 op

RDI portion

1 op

Mode of delivery

80 % Contact teaching, 20 % 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

Scheduling groups

  • Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 0. Open UAS: 0.)

Groups

  • PKÄTIS18

Small groups

  • Pienryhmä 1
  • Pienryhmä 2

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