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About Study Course

Department: Department of Nursing and Obstetric Care
ECTS:3
Course supervisor:Ilze Ansule
Study type:Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Midwifery
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Health care sciences and services; Health sciences

Objective

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

Prerequisites

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.

Competence

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.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2025, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Midwifery7BachelorRequiredIlze Ansule, Ilze Ansule, Signe Irša