Study Guide

Objective

Postpartum Midwifery and Nursing of Newborns 5 cr
Objectives
- Students will learn to independently provide care for women and families after childbirth.
- Students will learn to anticipate and identify changes in the health of the woman, the newborn baby and the family after childbirth.
- Students will know how to guide mothers and families in a family-oriented way that promotes their health.
- Students will master the newborn treatment process.
- Students will know how to prevent, identify and react in time to changes in the newborn’s health.
- Students will understand the importance of early interaction and support for it during the postpartum period.
- Students will learn to support parenthood and early interaction.
- Students will know how to detect problems in early interaction.
- Students will learn to perform a regular postpartum examination.
- Students will become familiar with the most common perinatal and neonatal disorders and problems.
- Students will know how to observe and care for a newborn as a multiprofessional team member in situations that threaten the health and life of the newborn.

Content

Contents
Monitoring, Counselling and Evaluation of the Postpartum Woman, Newborn and Family
- Methods for monitoring, caring for and assessing the condition of the mother and family after childbirth
- Caring for a woman who has given vaginal birth or birth by cesarean section and her family
- Postpartum complications
- Monitoring of mental wellbeing after childbirth
- Multiprofessional operations and referral for further treatment
- Breastfeeding counselling
- Content of health advice after childbirth
- Recovery after childbirth
- Childbirth discussion
- Family planning and contraception after childbirth
- Methods for monitoring the condition of a newborn

Support for Early Intervention and Parenthood
- Theoretical foundation for early interaction
- Observation in early intervention
- Methods for supporting early intervention and parenthood in midwifery

Postpartum Examination
- Recovery from childbirth and gynaecological status
- Childbirth discussion
- Family planning
- Parental benefits in postpartum examination
- Success of breastfeeding and problems in breastfeeding

Nursing of Newborns in Need of Critical Care
- The most common perinatal and neonatal disorders and problems
- Actions to take if the condition of the newborn changes
- Resuscitation of newborns

Evaluation scale

H-5