Midwifery Academy · MINC-MW-003
Monitoring Normal Labour Using the Partograph
Monitoring Normal Labour Using the Partograph 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 · Coming soon
MINC is still writing this module. Its units are listed below so you can see what is coming; none of them can be started or bought yet.
Module aim
Inconsistent labour monitoring and documentation can delay recognition of abnormal progress and fetal or maternal compromise. Midwives require reliable use of the WHO Labour Care Guide and respectful supportive care.
What you will be able to do
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to assess a woman respectfully on admission in labour.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to use the WHO Labour Care Guide accurately.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to support physiology, comfort and informed choice.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to recognise abnormal maternal, fetal or labour findings.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to document, communicate and escalate appropriately.
Units
- Physiology and stages of labour (60 min)
- Respectful admission in labour (60 min)
- Confirming labour and assessing urgency (60 min)
- History on admission (60 min)
- Maternal examination on admission (60 min)
- Abdominal and fetal assessment (60 min)
- Vaginal examination: indications and consent (60 min)
- Assessing cervical dilatation and descent (60 min)
- Membrane and liquor assessment (60 min)
- Principles of the WHO Labour Care Guide (60 min)
- Preparing and initiating the labour record (60 min)
- Supportive care and companionship (60 min)
- Mobility and position in labour (60 min)
- Oral fluids, nutrition and bladder care (60 min)
- Pain assessment and non-pharmacological support (60 min)
- Fetal heart-rate monitoring (60 min)
- Maternal pulse, blood pressure and temperature (60 min)
- Monitoring uterine contractions (60 min)
- Monitoring cervical progress (60 min)
- Assessing descent and rotation (60 min)
- Recording medicines and intravenous fluids (60 min)
- Avoiding unnecessary intervention (60 min)
- Recognition of slow labour progress (60 min)
- Amniotomy: scope and safety awareness (60 min)
- Oxytocin use and monitoring awareness (60 min)
- Meconium-stained liquor (60 min)
- Fetal heart-rate abnormalities (60 min)
- Maternal fever during labour (60 min)
- Hypertension during labour (60 min)
- Bleeding during labour (60 min)
- Second-stage assessment (60 min)
- Safe pushing and maternal position (60 min)
- Preparing for birth (60 min)
- Immediate care at birth (60 min)
- Active management of the third stage (60 min)
- Placenta and membrane examination (60 min)
- Fourth-stage observations (60 min)
- Labour documentation and handover (60 min)
- Audit of labour-care records (60 min)
- Integrated Labour Care Guide scenario (60 min)
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