About the Maternity Emergency Care Course

Maternity Emergency Care course information:

The Maternity Emergency Care course costs:

Non CRANAplus Member: $660.00 per person                   to apply for CRANAplus Membership

      CRANAplus Members: $510.00 per person

The Maternity Emergency Care course minimum participant number is 16 and we have a full course at 20

for  Sample Program / Course Content.

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

-  pre term labour
-  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 1700 hours to Sunday 1700 hours. 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 is endorsed by CRANAplus Inc and the Royal College of Nursing Australia and attracts 20 CNE points.

Sample Program/Course Content:

Friday Evening

1645 - 1700     Registration
1700 - 1745     Welcome and housekeeping
                      Introduction to course and facilitators, structure of course, issues of maternity services in remote areas.
1745 - 1845     Antenatal care/assessment
1845 - 1945     Normal birth lecture, video and examination of a placenta
1945 - 2015     Cultural safety in childbirth
2015               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

0830 - 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