About This Course

The aim of this free online SafeMa midwifery postgraduate MOOC is to enhance women´s access to quality midwifery services by strengthening the knowledge and reflection of the participant. The course is self-paced and interactive with reading materials, videos, and tests to further your professional reflection. 

8 partner institutions in Denmark, Greece, Cambodia, and Vietnam have come together in an Erasmus+ capacity-building project to create the SafeMa Hubs for excellence in the partner institutions of Vietnam and Cambodia to foster competency-based and on-site training, evidence-based research and career development facilities. 

The SafeMa postgraduate course offers a postgraduate course consistent of 8 modules as well as facilitated internships. Each SafeMa module has an associated MOOC that introduces you to the SafeMa postgraduate course and prepares you for participation in the related module. Each MOOC has a different theme related to the SafeMa module taught in Vietnam and Cambodia:

1. Advanced clinical skills in midwifery – promoting normal labor

2. Advanced clinical skills in midwifery II – Fetal monitoring and patient safety

3. Advanced clinical skills in midwifery III – Obstetric emergencies

4. Post-partum health promotion within midwifery

5. Methods in health research

6. Clinical preceptorship

7. Human rights in midwifery

8. Evidence-based midwifery

In this MOOC you will gain knowledge on the SafeMa project and structure. You will be presented to two main topics which are essential and partly representative for the remains of SafeMa Module 3 - Advanced clinical skills in midwifery III – Obstetric emergencies

First topic: Shoulder dystocia

It is essential for the midwife to have extensive knowledge on the physiology of the first and second stage of labour and on the normal mechanism of baby’s delivery in order to act adequate when managing second stage of labour and recognise and manage complications in second stage and more specifically shoulder dystocia. The topic entails the normal mechanism of labour and includes the following points: Physiology of the second stage of labour, normal mechanism of labour, cardinal movements and delivery of the shoulders, mechanism of shoulder dystocia, causes and risk factors of shoulder dystocia, early identifications signs of shoulder dystocia, prevention of shoulder dystocia, management of shoulder dystocia including HELLPERR-manoeuvre, first-line maneuvers, internal maneuvers, maternal outcomes, fetal injuries. 

Second topic:  Complications in the third stage of labour in relation to excessive bleeding

It is essential for the midwife to have extensive knowledge on the anatomy of the female reproductive anatomy and of physiology of the third stage of labour in order to act adequate when managing third stage of labour and recognize and manage complications related to postpartum haemorrhage. This topic entails the normal physiology and includes the following points: Female reproductive anatomy, physiology the third stage of labour, placental separation, management of third stage of labour, and examination of the placenta. The topic also introduces briefly to postpartum hemorrhage and different definitions. The topic entails the following points: Estimation of blood loss, Causes of PPH, and Managing PPH. 

DISCLAIMER:

UCN is responsible for the original content of this MOOC, as it was prepared during the project period of the SafeMa project. Translations and adaptions during/and after the project period of the SafeMa project is the responsibility of local SafeMa partners in Vietnam and Cambodia.