Midwifery During Parturition (7 cr)
Code: 7031578-3001
General information
Enrollment
02.05.2020 - 30.09.2020
Timing
01.08.2020 - 16.12.2020
Number of ECTS credits allocated
7 op
Virtual portion
3 op
Mode of delivery
58 % Contact teaching, 42 % Distance learning
Unit
Health and Well-being
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
1 - 30
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Henna Vuoriranta
- Marjatta Häsänen
Groups
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PKÄTIS17
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
Evaluation scale
H-5