Midwifery Academy · MINC-MW-001
Focused Antenatal Care and Risk Assessment
Focused Antenatal Care and Risk Assessment was selected because it addresses an important midwifery responsibility with direct implications for patient safety, continuity and quality of care. The module progresses from foundational concepts through assessment, midwifery action, communication, evaluation and an integrated practice-improvement exercise.
40 CPD credit hours · 40 one-hour units · 2400 minutes · UGX 200,000 in total
Module aim
Variation in antenatal risk assessment, delayed recognition of danger signs and incomplete birth preparedness can prevent women from receiving timely, individualised care.
What you will be able to do
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to conduct a respectful and comprehensive antenatal assessment.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to classify and document maternal and fetal risk.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to develop an individualised birth and emergency plan.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to recognise danger signs and arrange timely referral.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to support continuity across antenatal contacts.
Units
- Foundations of quality antenatal care (60 min)
- Respectful and person-centred antenatal care (60 min)
- Confirming pregnancy and estimating gestational age (60 min)
- First-contact antenatal assessment (60 min)
- Comprehensive obstetric history (60 min)
- Medical and surgical history in pregnancy (60 min)
- Previous pregnancy outcomes and recurrence risk (60 min)
- Social determinants and safeguarding (60 min)
- General physical examination in pregnancy (60 min)
- Baseline maternal vital signs (60 min)
- Weight, height and nutritional assessment (60 min)
- Abdominal examination in pregnancy (60 min)
- Fetal heart assessment (60 min)
- Antenatal contact schedule and continuity (60 min)
- Individualised birth and emergency plan (60 min)
- Routine antenatal investigations (60 min)
- Blood group, rhesus status and sensitisation (60 min)
- Anaemia screening and response (60 min)
- HIV, syphilis and hepatitis screening (60 min)
- Malaria prevention in pregnancy (60 min)
- Tetanus vaccination and immunisation review (60 min)
- Iron, folate and micronutrient support (60 min)
- Healthy eating and physical activity (60 min)
- Common discomforts of pregnancy (60 min)
- Medicines, substances and pregnancy safety (60 min)
- Screening for hypertensive disorders (60 min)
- Screening for diabetes in pregnancy (60 min)
- Recognising antepartum haemorrhage (60 min)
- Reduced fetal movement assessment (60 min)
- Multiple pregnancy risk awareness (60 min)
- Adolescent pregnancy (60 min)
- Pregnancy in older women (60 min)
- Mental health and psychosocial wellbeing (60 min)
- Intimate-partner violence and confidential support (60 min)
- Infection symptoms and referral (60 min)
- Preterm-birth risk and warning signs (60 min)
- Documentation and maternity records (60 min)
- Referral pathways and continuity (60 min)
- Antenatal quality indicators (60 min)
- Integrated antenatal risk-assessment case (60 min)
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