Introduction to Midwifery
PLEASE NOTE THAT AGAPE MIDWIFERY RESOURCES ARE BEING UTILIZED FOR DEVELOPING A FULL MIDWIFERY PROGRAM TO BE NATIONALLY ACCREDITED, RECOGNIZED BY THE US DEPT of EDUCATION. FUTURE ItM COURSES ARE ON HOLD UNTIL THE FULL PROGRAM IS FINALIZED. If you wish to be kept updated on upcoming start dates please call or fill out an inquiry form on Agape Schools’ CONTACT PAGE. Thank you for your interest in Agape’s programs.
A much needed program designed to prepare you to begin working as a midwife assistant or start your training to complete the national NARM exam. Whether you have no experience with birthing care or you do but need a step up, this comprehensive midwifery assistant program is for you. Get ready to be prepared!
Course Description:
Learn the fundamental knowledge, skills, and problem solving solutions required to be a vital asset to assisting your local out-of-hospital midwife and complete numerous NARM required skills. Also serves as the prerequisite for the full 3 year midwifery program.
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Skills & Knowledge Covered
-Medical Terminology
-Anatomy & Physiology
-Critical Thinking & Study skills
-History of Midwifery
-Privacy, Ethics, & Cultural Competency in Midwifery care
-Antepartum, Intrapartum & Postpartum Care Charting
-Counseling & Communication
-Informed Choice
-Life being On-Call & the assistants birth bag
-Marketing yourself to midwives as an assistant/student
-Sterilizing equipment
-Assisting with Prenatal Care & Basic Skills Practice
-Vitals Signs, How & Why
-Labor Care & Comfort Measures
-Birth Set-Up
-Intermittent Auscultation of FHT’s
-Assisting with second stage & the moment of birth
-Water birth
-Third/Fourth Stage
-Responsibilities after the birth
-Breastfeeding assistance for mothers and babies
-Postpartum Care and the normal newborn
-Birth Emergencies with simulated skills practice
-CPR and NRP certification class
Course Logistics
Hybrid Program (120 Hour):
– Agape Online:
Content, Discussions, Assignments, & Tests
– Agape On-Site:
Demonstration, Skills, Lab, CPR, & NRP
Including live Pregnant & Newborn “Clients”
Schedule for 2015:
– Registration
Opens June 1 (Online Application)
Early Bird Deadline: August 15 ($100 discount off student’s tuition)
Registration Deadline: September 15
Course Start Date: September 28 (online assignments begin)
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Pricing:
In-Full
$49 Application
$1,166 Tuition
PayPlan
$49 Application
$24 /week (1 year) Tuition
State Aid Option
– For scholarship eligibility screening or questions, please contact a Career Facilitator at your nearest Northwest Michigan Works Center. Visit their website for contact details at www.nwmichworks.org and select the “Contact Us” tab to find a MI Works Center near you!
Supplies & Books:
Books
Books must be purchased by the student.
SUPPLIES
The following supplies are included with the Introduction to Midwifery course:
– Stethoscope
– BP cuff
– Digital thermometer
– Neonatal bag/mask
– Box of gloves
– Tape measure
– Watch w/ second hand
– Economy fetoscope
– Eldon card kit
– 3 pair sterile gloves
– 2 cord clamps (varied types)
– Equipment bag
– 2 sets of scrubs
– 3” binder
– 5 subject notebook
– 200 4×6 index cards
– Black Pens/Highlighter
BOOKS
The following books are required for the course and must be purchased in addition to tuition costs.
1) Breastfeeding Answers Made Simple: A Pocket Guide for Helping Mothers by Nancy Mohrbacher – ISBN: 978-0984774623
2) Birth Emergency Skills Training: Manual for Out -of- Hospital Midwives by Bonnie U. Gruenberg – ISBN: 978-0979002007
3) Heart and Hands, Fifth Edition: A Midwife’s Guide to Pregnancy and Birth by Elizabeth Davis – ISBN: 978-1607742432
4) Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP) by American Academy of Pediatrics & American Heart Association – ISBN: 978-1581104981
NARM Specific Skills Covered:
ABC’s of Emergency Care
Administration of Free Flow Oxygen to the Newborn
Assessment of the Placenta
Assistance with Breastfeeding Techniques
Auscultation of Fetal Heart Rate
Basic Comfort Measures
Basic Treatment of Shock
Bimanual Compression
Clamping and Cutting the Cord
Drawing Medication from a Multi-Dose Vial
Drawing Medication from an Ampule
Estimation of Blood Loss
Fundal Height Measurement
General Lifting Technique
Gloving
Glucose Analysis
Handwashing
Hemoglobin Analysis
Input/Output During Labor
Intramuscular Injections
Leopold’s Maneuvers
Maternal Blood Pressure
Maternal Pulses
Maternal Respiratory Assessment
Maternal Skin Assessment
Maternal Temperature Assessment
Monitoring the Fetal Heart in Labor
Newborn Pulses
Newborn Suction Techniques
Newborn Temperature Assessment
Obtaining a clean catch of Urine
Obtaining a Cord Blood Sample
Oxygen Safety – Set up and Administration
Oxygen Setup and Preparation for Birth
Preparation of the Birth Room
Pulse Oximeter Newborn and Adult
Shoulder Dystocia
SOAPIER Charting
Sterile Technique
Sterilization of Instruments
The Newborn Metabolic Screen
Two person Sheet Lift
Ungloving
Universal Precautions
Urinalysis via dipstick
Use of AED
Use of Eldon Card
Use of Stethoscope
Water Birth
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