MDWF 2010
MDWF 2010: Prenatal Care I
Credits 3.5
This course, in conjunction with Foundations of Prenatal Care II, is designed to give a student the basic knowledge and skills needed to provide competent prenatal care as a direct entry midwife. In this course, you will create practice documents and client handouts to correspond with education provided during routine prenatal care, and learn to manage basic prenatal conditions. The "quizzes" are open-book and designed to support your understanding of the readings. Case studies provide an opportunity to apply your learning to clinical situations.
SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the completion of this course, the students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills in the following areas:
1. Develop or identify documents that will be used in the student’s personal practice.
2. Describe the benefits and risks of available birth settings.
3. Identify clients that are good candidates for direct-entry midwifery care at the initial interview, and assess throughout the prenatal period for complication that necessitate collaboration or referral.
4. Understand the components of a comprehensive health and obstetric, gynecologic and reproductive health history.
5. Describe the role of evidence-based care in prenatal care.
6. Identify pregnancy through recognition of signs and symptoms, history-taking, physical assessments, and laboratory tesEng.
7. Perform a routine prenatal care exam, including gestational assessment, abdominal assessment, fetal growth assessment, monitoring of the fetal heart rate, fetal well-being assessment, pelvic examination, and clinical pelvimetry.
8. Perform ongoing history at each prenatal visit.
9. Describe components of the physical examination that evaluate potential for a healthy pregnancy.
10. Describe physiological and emotional changes in pregnancy.
11. Understand the midwifery standards of care and guidelines in regard to prenatal care.
12. Have a basic understanding of common complaints and complication of pregnancy and non-pharmacological remedies for those complaints.
13. Describe the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards that apply to midwifery care during the prenatal period, including specific infection prevention and control strategies.
14. Demonstrate facilitation of the informed decision making process and provision of individualized care, counseling, collaboration and referral as indicated, evident throughout all documents.
15. Identify pre-exisEng factors and factors that develop anyEme during the childbearing cycle that make out-of-hospital birth an unsafe option.
16. Provide health education to clients (adolescents and adults) and their families about normal pregnancy progression, warning signs and symptoms, and when and how to contact the midwife.
17. Provide routine education specific to pregnancy, including appropriate hygiene in pregnancy, considerations for work inside and outside the home, components of preparation of the home/family for the newborn, and common techniques to physically prepare for labor.