Core Education and Core Midwifery Areas of Study

Antepartum (Normal and Complications) –Covers antepartum care including pregnancy signs and symptoms, calculating due dates, reproductive and pelvic anatomy, menstrual cycle, embryology and fetal development, fetal environment, evaluating health, basic nutrition and pregnancy physiology, common complications.

1. Basic skills – Include vital signs, early prenatal skills, universal precautions
2. Risk Screening
3. Physical Assessment
4. Provision of care
5. Complications
6. Nutrition
7. Pharmacology
8. Diagnostic Lab Tests and Procedures
9. Observational Skills and Charting
10. Hematology
11. CPR

Intrapartum Management (Normal and Complications)– Covers fetal evaluation, labor, psychophysiology of birth, facilitation of first, second and third stages, unusual situation, complication, water birth, hospital procedures.

1. Basic Skills – Include sterile technique, abdominal skills, basic shock treatment, estimation of blood loss, IM injection
2. Risk Screening
3. Physical Assessment
4. Provision of care
5. Complications
6. Pharmacology
7. Diagnostic Lab Tests and Procedures
8. Observational skills and Charting
9. IV Therapy

Postpartum Management (Normal and Complications)– Covers maternal assessment and care, maternal complications, postpartum emotional disorders, bladder catheterization

1. Basic Skills
2. Risk screening
3. Physical Assessment
4. Provision of care
5. Complications
6. Pharmacology
7. Diagnostic Lab Tests and Procedures
8. Observational Skills and Charting
9. Suturing

Newborn Management (Normal and Complications) –Covers unique fetal anatomy and physiology, fetal transformation, newborn exam and age assessment, neonatal procedures, behavioral states, breastfeeding, neonatal complications

1. Basic Skills - Include newborn physical and gestational age exam and evaluation, use of icterometer, growth charts
2. Risk Screening
3. Physical Assessment
4. Provision of care
5. Complications
6. Diagnostic Lab Test and procedures
7. Observational Skills and Charting
8. Neonatal Resuscitation

Women Reproductive Health Care (Normal and Abnormal)– Includes sexuality, birth control and family planning, pelvic exam, breast health and exam, menstrual disorders, perimenopause and menopause, uterine and cervical abnormalities, myomata, infertility,

1. Gynecology Skills - Include bimanual and speculum exam, Paps, cultures, pelvimetry, breast exam, wet mounts
2. Risk Screening
3. Physical Assessment
4. Provision of Care
5. Diagnostic Lab Tests and Procedures
6. Pharmacology
7. Observational Skills and Charting
8. Pap Smears

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