About the Maternity Emergency Care Course
Maternity Emergency Care Course, CRANAplus
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Maternity Emergency Care course information
The Maternity Emergency Care course is endorsed by;
CRANAplus Inc
Royal College of Nursing Australia
Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine
and attracts 20 CNE points.
This course was developed in consultation with the Australian College of Midwives & remote and rural health practitioners, following an identified need for a short course that specifically targeted maternity emergency care for non-midwives working in a remote or isolated setting.
Factors of geographical isolation, minimal staffing and poor transport results in delays in transporting patients to definitive specialist care, which necessitates core skills at the remote or isolated location to care for the pregnant patient - antenatal, intrapartum and post partum, in some cases for extended periods of time.
Declining obstetric services in rural and remote areas result in a generalist work force having to respond to specialist needs. The situation is compounded by the fact that the expectations of many remote consumers have changed. Some pregnant women are choosing to birth outside of regional tertiary centres.
This course would improve the quality of health services for the pregnant woman in remote and isolated areas, thereby improving overall health outcomes.
Graduates of this course will be able to:
* demonstrate the principles of managing first line emergency care to a woman in labour and
immediately following child birth
* demonstrate the principles of managing a unexpected normal birth in an isolated setting
* identify appropriate responses to the following maternal and neonatal complications
- vaginal bleeding in pregnancy
- birth asphyxia
- post partum haemorrhage
- hypertension
- pre-eclampsia
- maternal trauma
Target group:
Health professionals including Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses, Aboriginal Health Workers, Torres Strait Islander Health Workers, Paramedics and isolated practice General Practitioners practicing in isolated circumstances without the resources and assistance of formal or regular obstetric and midwifery services.
Area of implementation:
Across all states and territories in remote locations or regional centres as defined by the target group, allowing for maximum access.
Activity:
Course delivered in the form of a workshop, a combination of lectures and skill stations held over 2 & 1/2 days from Friday at 3pm to Sunday 5pm. Delivered by a core group of facilitators comprising specialist midwives, midwives practicing in a rural/remote communities and/or general practice obstetricians.
Lectures include:
- normal birth
- antenatal assessment
- cultural safety
- bleeding in pregnancy
- diabetes in pregnancy
- the unwell pregnant woman
- PPH (post partum haemorrhage)
- hypertension in pregnancy
- routine care of mother and baby
- uncommon events (breech birth, cord prolapse, shoulder dystocia)
- neonatal resuscitation
The Maternity Emergency Care course costs:
Non-CRANAplus Member: $710.00 per person to apply for CRANAplus Membership
CRANAplus Members: $560.00 per person
Sample Program/Course Content:
Friday Evening
1500 - 1515 Registration
1515 - 1530 Welcome and housekeeping
Intro to course and facilitators, structure of course, issues of maternity services in remote areas.
1530 - 1630 Antenatal care/assessment
1630 - 1730 Normal birth lecture, video and examination of a placenta
1730 - 1815 Cultural safety in childbirth
1815 Close
Saturday
0800 - 0830 Lecture: Neonatal resuscitation
0830 - 0950 Skill station (1 of 4)
(1) - Normal Birth
(2) - Uncommon events (breech, cord prolapse)
(3) - Postpartum haemorrhage
(4) - Neonatal resuscitation
0950 - 1010 Morning Tea
1010 - 1040 Diabetes
1040 - 1110 Hypertension in pregnancy
1110 - 1200 Abdominal palpation (4 groups with live models)
1200 - 1245 Lunch
1245 - 1330 Bleeding in pregnancy
1330 - 1430 Shoulder dystocia - mini lecture & skill station
1430 - 1550 Skill station (2 of 4)
1550 - 1610 Afternoon Tea
1610 - 1730 Skill station (3 of 4)
1730 Close
Sunday
0800 - 0915 Preterm Labour
0915 - 1035 Skill station (4 of 4)
1035 - 1055 Morning Tea
1055 - 1130 Routine care of mother & baby
1130 - 1215 Family violence in pregnancy & Maternal trauma
1215 - 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1400 Case studies
1400 - 1500 Video: Birth Rites
1500 - 1630 Practical assessment
Afternoon Tea- while assessments are being done
1630 - 1700 Evaluation
1700 Close
