Obstetric and Neonatal Emergencies

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Evaluate the skills required to recognise, respond to, and manage, within the scope of practice, maternal, fetal and neonatal deterioration and emergency situations.
• Demonstrate the ability to take responsibility for your own professional development linked to risk assessment and skills rehearsal in obstetric and neonatal emergencies.
• Recognise and articulate the importance of team-working in the best interests of women, fetus/neonate.
• Identify and justify the skills required for discussion/negotiation with other professionals within the obstetric/neonatal emergency scenario.
• Review and apply the evidence base appropriate to the pathophysiology linked to emergency scenarios.

• Antepartum Haemorrhage i.e. abruption, placenta previa, uterine rupture
• Postpartum haemorrhage
• Uterine Inversion
• Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia
• BLS and maternal collapse
• Maternal Sepsis
• Maternal anaesthetic emergencies
• Shoulder dystocia
• Cord prolapse
• Vaginal breech birth
• Neonatal resuscitation and support of transition
• Team working and effective communication, leadership and situational awareness, Human factors and debriefing

Programme threads are linked throughout and include:

• Infant feeding principles
• Medicines management
• Mental health and well-being
• Values Based Enquiry Journey
• Making every contact count
• Continuity of carer
• Leadership
• Coaching

Teaching and learning methods

• Skill Rehearsal
• Group work
• Scenarios and Role play
• Self-directed learning
• Structured reflection
• Quizes
• Technology enhanced learning activities

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Access to the local Maternity Services for theoretical and skills rehearsal.

Internet Resources

RCM/RCOG joint statement on multidisciplinary working.

Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MBRRACE-UK).

National Health Service (NHS) Improvement SBAR communication tool – situation, background, assessment, recommendation..

Revalidation.

Textbooks

Johnson, R. and Taylor, W. (2010). Skills for midwifery Practice. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.

Johnson R and Taylor W (2010). Oxford Textbook of Women and Mental Health. Open University Press.

Stables D and Rankin J (eds) (2010). Physiology in Childbearing. Elsevier.

Winter C, Crofts J, Draycott T, Muchatuta N. (2017). Practical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training PROMPT course manual. Cambridge University Press.

Chapman V and Charles C (2013). The Midwife’s Labour and Birth Handbook. John Wiley and Sons Limited.

Bass, J., Fenwick, J., Sidebotham, M (2017). Development of a Model of Holistic Reflection to facilitate transformative learning in student midwives,’ Women and Birth. Elsevier: Australian College of Midwives.

Williamson A and Crozier K (2008). Neonatal Care: A Textbook for Student Midwives and Nurses. Lantern Publishing Ltd.

Downie G, Mackenzie J and Williams A (2013). Calculating Drug Doses Safely. Churchill Livingstone.

Assessment strategy

To pass this module you must achieve a grade of 40 % or more from the OSCE assessment

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: External