Online Global Midwifery Skills: Maternal and Newborn Survival Best Practices

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This course will focus on meeting global goals and initiatives toward reducing child mortality and reducing maternal mortality in low income countries or under-developed areas  through advanced skills, new use of technology and current best practices for the care of women during pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and the entire childbearing season. Anyone providing health care to women anywhere in the world will benefit from this course.

Global Midwifery Skills is essential for midwives, but is also helpful for doctors, nurses, doulas or any other health care workers who serve women of different ethnic or sub-culture groups in America OR who may volunteer in developing countries where maternal mortality is high. The needs of women in the area of culturally sensitive, respectful and evidence-based maternity care is actually a life and death matter.

Global Midwifery Skills is broken into two parts, and presented in an extremely practical way: Part one is Newborn Survival: Updated Best Practice, and Part two is Maternal Survival: Updated Best Practice. By looking at the common causes of death for both mothers and babies in the world, we can easily teach the skills, knowledge and attitudes necessary to save those lives. Rarely is it a purely medical problem, and usually the treatment is within the scope of practice of the midwife. However, the issues are very different from what a Western midwife will encounter, hence the need for this "bridge" course. 

In this course, you will be brought up to date on best practices in maternity care globally, but more than that, you will be pointed to resources for further learning and study that will serve you well for years to come. Included in the course are drug sheets for commonly used medications,  how to treat illnesses common to the developing world like malaria and parasites during pregnancy, and much more. Vicki says "I would have given my right arm to have this kind of information when I went to work in the third world 25 years ago, but it did not exist then. Now, it is right here at our fingertips!".

Once you complete the course, you will immediately receive a certificate for your CEUs

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PRICE

Online Global Midwifery Skills: $239

CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS

CEU: 8 hours

Accredited by MEAC

DATE

Purchase anytime you are ready. You have access to the full course for 30 days after you purchase

COURSE TAUGHT BY

Vicki Penwell, CPM, LM, MSM, MA
Rose Penwell, CPM, LM, BSM, BS
Ian Penwell, CPM, LM, BSM, BS

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