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 three main topics which are essential and partly representative for the remains of SafeMa Module 4 - Post-partum health promotion within midwifery.

You will gain knowledge on post-partum health promotion within midwifery.

First topic: Health promotion: Midwifery considerations in the post-partum period

The aim of this topic is to use the concept of health promotion in reflective study activities, where you are asked to reflect on you own midwifery praxis.

Second topic:  Recommendations and benefits of breastfeeding - including parents’ experiences related to breastfeeding

You will be presented to recommendations for breastfeeding. WHO and UNICEF have clear recommendations regarding breastfeeding. These recommendations are supported by studies showing how the baby and mother benefit from breastfeeding. More recently studies have shown that parents´ experiences relating to the promotion, guidance and support they receive concerning breastfeeding have a big impact on how they succeed with breastfeeding. You will gain knowledge and awareness to serve as a base of understanding for the importance of individual care, and why midwives should avoid unnecessary interventions.

Third topic: Anatomy and physiology of lactation

The anatomy and physiology of lactation is essential to understand the mechanisms of breastfeeding. This gained knowledge serves as a basis for understanding complex and complicated situations in breastfeeding.

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.