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MDWF 1050: Midwife's Assistant Orientation

COURSE PURPOSE & OVERVIEW: MDWF 1050: Midwife’s Assistant Orientation helps student midwives prepare to become efficient, trustworthy, and competent assistants. This course is designed to give the student an understanding of the requirements and duties of a midwife's assistant. After having completed this course, students will be prepared with the theoretical background necessary for their clinical practicum. MDWF 1050 is designed to prepare students for finding and maintaining a successful clinical apprenticeship. This course incorporates the preparations needed for students who are planning to attend a clinical site or become a midwife's assistant as either an apprentice or a second attendant. (Second attendant is a term specifically used in Canada to identify a primary midwife’s assistant.) In some clinical settings, you may be referred to as a midwifery student or an apprentice midwife. The term “Midwife’s Assistant” is used for general purposes and includes all these different models of training. A student midwife needs to be prepared to assist during prenatal care, antepartum care, postpartum and newborn care in order to complete the clinical requirements necessary for graduation, whether they choose a local clinical site or one in another country, state, or province. (Midwives College of Utah, 2021, p. 4)

Midwives College of Utah. (2021, Jan. 1st). MDWF 1050: Midwife's assistant orientation. Midwives College of Utah Midwifing Midwives, 4-5. https://midwifery.instructure.com/courses/3036/files/368687/download?wrap=1

Specific Learning Objectives

1. Understand the ethics and the personal and social issues and attitudes of the midwife's assistant and the midwife in the Apprenticeship Model.

2. Understand the requirements of the midwife's assistant and prepare a Midwife's Assistant Birth Bag.

3. Be oriented on the basics of being a competent assistant to the midwife during prenatal care, birth and postpartum care.

4. Understand the basic concepts of labor support and non-pharmacological pain management, including water labor and water birth.

5. Have detailed knowledge of the midwife's assistant's duties before, during and after delivery.

6. Understand the role of the midwife's assistant in various common emergency situations and how to assist the primary midwife to manage them safely.

7. Demonstrate how to set up for birth, resuscitation, IV, suturing, and newborn exam.

8. Be familiar with the MCU Clinical Program

9. Understand the theory and procedure of the following general skills:

a. Maternal temperature assessment

b. Maternal pulse

c. Maternal respiratory assessment

d. Use of stethoscope

e. Maternal blood pressure

f. Use of fetoscope or Doppler

g. Leopold’s maneuvers

h. Fundal height measurement

i. Fetal heart rate normal and abnormal

j. Newborn temperature assessment

k. Newborn pulse

l. Respiratory and cardiac assessment of the newborn

m. Apgar assessment

n. Hand washing

o. Gloving and ungloving

p. Sterile technique

q. Sterilization of instruments

r. Standard precautions

s. Adult and infant CPR

t. Basic treatment of shock

u. Oxygen set-up

v. Administration of oxygen to the birthing parent

w. Parent and newborn intramuscular injection

Midwives Assistant Resource Guide

Taking Vitals- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hTsObdXiRVSbVF0WiwQRbY-nyznRjWjrTjdRTL3LrCs/edit?usp=sharing

Common Problems- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eU7jPvGRZNxRV5Dh9mQZ6SxoAq4txckQvCB7K3iLUiY/edit?usp=sharing

Common Complications-https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tptPmsLqoK3u43z76dsm1klHdZ5-tFUn8L9n5lfFR6c/edit?usp=sharing

Fetal Heart Tones- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s0DP5wym9Scdh4o1nT5gZSU53fhP6LEXG2lPOnFEjuE/edit?usp=sharing

Comfort Measures Handout- https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ZMtO1L5f-hwBtv5VJkVYhYI4XCxku-TZcoynMMY-kI/edit?usp=sharing

Birth Set-up- https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ZMtO1L5f-hwBtv5VJkVYhYI4XCxku-TZcoynMMY-kI/edit?usp=sharing

Water Birth Paper- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W1CLFmFuSfULDvPhWxqJGpUScCoOrdAH9WBXKeJbib8/edit?usp=sharing

Care of the Newborn- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vUqSWknDRU73vxR-zCPy2gET2lR-O9anP9ffdtbRmAQ/edit?usp=sharing

Giving an Injection-https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WC4723PMs48QmNkbJDqWnDBHpXzkmoS5RUMNHoHKXNo/edit?usp=sharing

Administering an IV- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pZ-e6MV5MTVBQ497-V8PZ2x8HgBQP7kxglYjwQcqvT8/edit?usp=sharing

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