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Advanced Birth Attendant School ( HLC 373 )

This course is part of a series of programs with the goal of equipping midwives to integrate knowledge and skills to provide a full-scope of midwifery practice. This is a continuation of the CNH 271/272 midwifery school for students who have completed those requirements, or by permission by school leadership. Students may have lectures at a field location as they gain further understanding and insight about the birthing practices and handling complications in the community. Lecture content includes puerperal sepsis, obstructed labor, postpartum hemorrhage and eclampsia. Students will also be involved in clinical experience and research projects. The intent of this program is to help students progress in their knowledge and practical skills with a focus on demonstrating Christ as they fulfill requirements for credentialing and licensure as a professional midwife. This program includes international standards for knowledge and skills competencies that are required by many national and international regulatory boards. The midwifery instructors and clinical preceptors, who verify documentation of knowledge and skills achievements, are health care providers holding professional credentials in their field.

Birth Attendant School ( HLC 271 )

A Midwife Assistant serves midwives, as they care for their clients. The care is primarily of women and families with normal pregnancies, and is always under the supervision of a professional health care provider, or health care system supervisor. In this program, the students learn basic, entry level health care skills with a specific focus on midwifery in the community. This care includes basic prenatal care, labor, birth, postpartum and newborn care. It also covers various international requirements for midwifery credentials, writing midwifery protocols, emergency care, and timely transfers to a higher level of medical care. The midwifery instructors and clinical preceptors, who verify documentation of knowledge and skills achievement, are health care providers holding professional credentials in their field. This is an excellent entry point for those who wish to become professional midwives, or community midwives because there is no assumption of prior birth knowledge. This course has a field assignment/practicum available with qualified health care providers and midwives, to give the students guided, reinforced experiential learning. The course may be offered in sessions that allow experience to be gained that connects to their current study topics.

Childbirth/Antenatal Educator Seminar ( HLC 175 )

The Childbirth Educator supports pregnant women and families by providing prenatal health education, birth preparation, and important information to assist families in making decisions regarding their birth and new baby. The Teacher/Facilitator Development portion actually gives time to learn more teaching concepts and to practice skills in a community setting. This seminar includes training for "Pregnant Life Circles", which incorporates the Childbirth Education topics with basic prenatal care in a group setting. This helps to create more community support and empowers women to follow through with healthier reproductive outcomes. These skills can be adapted for most locations where missionaries would serve pregnant women. This course also can equip workers who are already serving in other capacities to reach out to those in need, through a simple health education format, either in a classroom setting or one-on-one counseling.

Doula Seminar ( HLC 173 )

A Birth "Doula” is a trained labor companion who devotes herself to labor with pregnant women as they work to bring forth in childbearing. Women need companions to accompany them in this strategic time of life, and of giving life. Someone they can trust to support them emotionally, socially, physically, and to advocate for them. This brings about a better and safer birth experience for both mother and child. These skills can be adapted for most locations where missionaries would serve pregnant women. This course also can equip workers who are already serving in other capacities to reach out to those in the community through service in health facilities. No prior knowledge of birth is assumed in this course and this is a non-medical program. You are taught how to help women and then there are possible sites for an internship to give hands-on experience!

Maternity Attendant - Kraamzorg ( HLC 177 )

The Maternity Attendant/Kraamzorg acts as a companion to help the mother journey through difficult times in pregnancy and especially during her postpartum weeks. This is primarily within a non-medical perspective although the Maternity Attendant maintains skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, infant resuscitation and assessment for possible danger signs in pregnancy, the postnatal and neonatal periods. This is a strategic time in the life of the new mother and newborn infant, especially when they do not have appropriate supportive care from their traditional resources. This is not only a strategic in the physical lives of family-members but also an important spiritual time when parents' lives are being transformed! Maternity Attendants are able to assist women in their homes with light housekeeping, meal preparation, sharing important health information and physically monitoring mother and baby as they recover from birth and transform into a strong bonded family!

Midwifery Certification Course ( HLC 375 )

This course is designed to help students demonstrate Christ as they fulfil requirements for credentialing and licensing as a professional midwife. It includes international competency standards for knowledge and skills that are required by many national and international regulatory boards. This course has the goal of equipping midwives to integrate knowledge and skills to provide a full-scope of midwifery practice. It focuses on students transitioning from a student or assistant role, into an autonomous healthcare provider role. Lecture content usually includes professional communications, more advanced anatomy and physiology for midwives, professional issues and ethics in midwifery, gynaecology, pre-conception care, fertility regulation, STD/STI and infection control, and professional considerations for services. Students will also be involved in clinical experience, research projects, and protocol writing (refining professional guidelines).

Midwife-Teacher Development ( HLC 377 )

The specific objective for this course is to equip midwifery teachers, including clinical preceptors, to educate midwifery students who will be providing culturally responsive care, normally to women with normal pregnancies. Many direct-entry midwives learn as apprentices under professional midwives, in both developed and under-developed nations. There is a huge need for this extra development of teaching strategies and skills for midwives who mentor others. The World Health Organization addresses this area as one of the major methods of influencing midwifery and saving lives around the world. We can influence many for Christ in taking this lead. This course could be used in addressing teaching skills for other health care professions as well. In the Midwife Teacher School, the midwives have didactic, as well as clinical sessions to help them develop the needed strategies, enabling them to instruct midwives in the full scope of practice, both for families having normal pregnancies and those who are experiencing an emergency that must be referred to a higher level of care. The Midwife Teacher may be mentoring students who will become certified/registered professionals or those who will solely work under the supervision of another professional health care provider, or health care system. Student Teachers are assisted to master post-basic midwifery skills, and then to learn effective teaching skills for educating healthcare providers. This program addresses the goal of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality, and morbidity, by increasing the skills of midwife teachers, therefore increasing the capabilities of their student population. This is an excellent entry point for those who wish to become professional midwife instructors, or to teach community midwives. This course has a field assignment/practicum available with qualified midwife teachers, to give the students guided, reinforced experiential learning.