Midwifery Academy · MINC-MW-005
Respectful Maternity and Essential Newborn Care
Respectful Maternity and Essential Newborn Care 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
Women and newborns may experience preventable harm when respectful care, immediate newborn care, feeding support, thermal protection and danger-sign recognition are inconsistent.
What you will be able to do
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to provide respectful rights-based maternity care.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to deliver essential immediate newborn care.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to support thermal care and breastfeeding.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to recognise newborn danger signs.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to verify practical competence through simulation and observation.
Units
- Rights-based maternity and newborn care (60 min)
- Dignity, privacy and confidentiality (60 min)
- Informed consent and shared decisions (60 min)
- Companionship during labour and birth (60 min)
- Culturally responsive communication (60 min)
- Prevention of mistreatment and abuse (60 min)
- Supporting women with disability (60 min)
- Adolescent-friendly maternity care (60 min)
- Bereavement-sensitive care (60 min)
- Preparation for every birth (60 min)
- Clean and safe birth environment (60 min)
- Immediate drying and stimulation (60 min)
- Skin-to-skin contact (60 min)
- Delayed cord clamping (60 min)
- Cord care (60 min)
- Thermal protection (60 min)
- Early initiation of breastfeeding (60 min)
- Assessment of breathing at birth (60 min)
- Newborn resuscitation readiness (60 min)
- Helping a baby who does not breathe (60 min)
- Apgar score: use and limitations (60 min)
- Identification and documentation (60 min)
- Initial newborn examination (60 min)
- Gestational-age and growth assessment (60 min)
- Recognition of congenital abnormalities (60 min)
- Vitamin K and preventive care (60 min)
- Eye care according to national policy (60 min)
- Newborn infection prevention (60 min)
- Feeding assessment and attachment (60 min)
- Supporting exclusive breastfeeding (60 min)
- Small and preterm newborn identification (60 min)
- Kangaroo mother care (60 min)
- Hypothermia prevention and response (60 min)
- Hypoglycaemia risk awareness (60 min)
- Newborn danger signs (60 min)
- Safe sleep and caregiver education (60 min)
- Discharge readiness (60 min)
- Post-discharge follow-up (60 min)
- Respectful-care audit and improvement (60 min)
- Integrated mother-newborn care scenario (60 min)
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