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Study Course Description

Clinical Practice in Educating a Woman and Her Family

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
MDAK_373
Branch of Science
Health care sciences and services; Health sciences
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Midwifery
LQF
Level 6
Study Type And Form
Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Structure Unit Manager
Structural Unit
Department of Nursing and Obstetric Care
Contacts

Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, mdak@rsu.lv, +371 67061567

About Study Course

Objective

Provide an opportunity for students to develop health literacy education skills at work in healthcare, physiological and pathological obstetrics.

Preliminary Knowledge

The concept of health and preventive, physiological, pathological and operational obstetrics; Emergency medical assistance; Anaesthesiology and resuscitatology in obstetrics; Physiological obstetrics and postpartum care (postpartum management); The care process in midwifery practice; Clinical pharmacology and medical care in obstetrics; Clinical care in obstetrics and gynaecology; Management of physiological pregnancy; Feeding and lactation of the newborn; Interpersonal contact in healthcare; General care; Infection control in care; Propedeytics; Basics of clinical care.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Student will be able to explain and perform an encouraging conversation about health care and prevention pocesses: physiological births, to describe potential complications during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, will know the treatment needed to prevent them. Student is able to evaluate the neonatal, provide “skin skin contact,” promote parental participation in the neonatal care, outline possible complications for the neonatal and the necessary action to prevent complications.

Skills

1.Student will be able to collect relevant information and will be able to inform patients/relatives about the specific medical manipulation, pharmacological effects of the medicinal product, conditions of use thereof, provide psychoemotional support to the woman and her family in case of complications. Draw up a complex maternity management and care plan with a gynaecologist/obstetrician, informing the womaniser and involving them in decision-making.

Competences

1.Using the acquired knowledge of abnormal maternity processes, the student is able to differentiate physiological delivery, - manage it - from abnormal development, analyse the acquired medical examination data, and is able to explain the progress of the process to the woman and her family by encouraging throughout the prodcesa stages of perinatal healthcare and the explanatory work of family planning.

Assessment

Examination

Title
% from total grade
Grade
1.

Attendance

-
-

The assessment shall consist of: 100% attendance, appropriately completed and timely submission of documentation in e-studies.

2.

Defence of the practice

50.00% from total grade
10 points

Successfully completed class/test and defence of placement (representing 50% of final assessment).

3.

Placement supervisor assessment

50.00% from total grade
10 points

Assessment of placement supervisor (comprising 50% of final assessment).

The active participation of students in the classes will be assessed, (During remote classes, those classes are passed through which the student is visible on camera throughout the course and actively participates in the activities of the class).

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
Clinical practice in educating women and their families
  1. Lecture

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Study room
2

Topics

Requirements for occupational protection, fire protection, electrical security, personal protection and personal data protection. Infection control and hygienic and anti-epidemic treatment requirements in a medical treatment institution. Provisions of the agenda in a medical treatment institution (place of practice).
  1. Class/Seminar

Modality
Location
Contact hours
On site
Study room
2

Topics

Lesson/seminar - report on the progress of pedagogical work in healthcare at the clinical placement base
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
4 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Defence (Placement)

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Dzemdību palīdzības nodrošināšanas kārtība

2.

Klīniskie algoritmi, pacientu ceļi, indikatori (ESF projekts) PERINATĀLĀ PERIODA APRŪPES JOMĀ, 2023.

3.

WHO Recommendations on Antenatal Care for a Positive Pregnancy Experience: Summary

4.

WHO recommendations Intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience

5.

WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience

Additional Reading

1.

Zīdīšanas ABC

2.

GAD-7 pašnovērtēšanas skala

3.

Kontracepcijas metodes