Nurse Midwifery: Collaborative Care and Early Recognition of Complications

Course Purpose

5 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Nurse Midwifery: Collaborative Care and Early Recognition of Complications.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 5 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

5 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Nurse Midwifery: Collaborative Care and Early Recognition of Complications.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. Describe the credentialing sequence through which any clinician, including a nurse midwife, is granted privileges, and name what primary source verification requires.
2. Explain why the scope of a midwife's practice is answered by the learner's own state board and employer rather than by a course or a colleague.
3. State the reported blood pressure values that define mild-range and severe-range hypertension in pregnancy, including the required interval and the gestational age after which they apply.
4. Explain why the same blood pressure values found before 20 weeks of gestation carry a different diagnosis.
5. Describe how the diagnostic frame for preeclampsia shifted from the classical triad to hypertension plus organ dysfunction, and name the organ systems involved.
6. Define gestational diabetes as retrieved, distinguish diet-controlled from pharmacologically treated disease, and state what the source says about consensus on diagnostic criteria.
7. Describe the boundaries of the first and second stages of labour and the three factors summarised as power, passenger and passage.
8. Explain what dysfunctional labour means in terms of those three factors, and which of them is assessed on admission rather than at intervals.
9. Classify a described fetal heart rate tracing as Category I, II or III using the retrieved criteria, and state the response each category calls for.
10. Explain why an early deceleration requires no treatment while monitoring must continue, and distinguish its mechanism from that of a variable deceleration.
11. Recognise shoulder dystocia from its described presentation and explain why the source calls most cases unpredictable and unavoidable.
12. State the reported definition of postpartum haemorrhage and explain why estimated blood loss below the threshold can still be abnormal.
13. Name the four T's of postpartum haemorrhage and identify which cause accounts for approximately 70% of cases.
14. Distinguish postpartum blues from perinatal depression on duration, functional impairment and diagnostic status.
15. Explain what proportion of pregnancy-related deaths occur after 42 days postpartum and what that implies for postpartum follow-up and handoff.
16. Describe the reported disparities in maternal mortality and mistreatment, and explain how minimising a patient's stated concern can end in a missed diagnosis.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Nurse Midwifery: Collaborative Care and Early Recognition of Complications.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   The midwifery role inside a system: credentialing, privileges and collaboration

4. 4

   Antenatal care and risk identification: gestational diabetes as the worked example

5. 5

   Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: the numbers, the interval, and the escalation

6. 6

   Normal labour: what is happening, and what makes it abnormal

7. 7

   Fetal heart rate interpretation: three categories and what each one asks for

8. 8

   Shoulder dystocia: an emergency you cannot predict and must have rehearsed

9. 9

   Postpartum haemorrhage: the definition, the underestimate, and the team response

10. 10

    The postpartum year: depression, handoffs, and the deaths that happen after discharge

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

This Course Satisfies

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