Flu vaccination in pregnant women
This course aims to provide midwives with information about why pregnant women and their unborn babies are at increased risk from flu. It informs midwives about the safety and effectiveness of flu vaccination, despite the low uptake routinely achieved in the UK. This course also covers some common misconceptions held by pregnant women, and some suggestions on […]
Scoring Tool for Documentation Audit: Midwifery out-patient antenatal care
Record keeping is an essential part of midwifery practice and is vital to support safe and effective care. All midwives should already be familiar with the NMC guidance on record keeping within the NMC Code. Complete the audit tool to ensure your record keeping standards are up to date. You can email the completed audit […]
Surrogacy
How do people go about finding and arranging for a surrogate to carry a child for them? Assisted reproductive technology has generated a range of family building possibilities, not only for infertile couples but also for non-heterosexual people whose parenting choices were previously limited. Technological developments, allowing an extra ‘third-party’ contribution to conception or gestation, […]
Autism and pregnancy
It is estimated that around 700,000 people in the UK have a diagnosis of autism. According to the British Medical Association it is estimated that 1 in 100 children in the UK are autistic. It is thought that there is a genetic link so if a child is autistic there may be other autistic members […]
DSD: recognising differences in sex development
What to do when it is unclear if a newborn baby is a boy or a girl? You can expect to see atypical genitalia at least once during the course of your career. Most babies born with a difference in sex development (DSD) have genitalia that look different. There are many conditions which cause DSD. […]
Epilepsy (revised 2021)
Epilepsy is the most common serious, potentially life threatening neurological condition to encounter in pregnancy and up to a year postnatally. Increasing midwifery knowledge about epilepsy can potentially reduce morbidity and mortality rates through recognition of risks and a deteriorating medical condition. This i-learn module on epilepsy aims to develop knowledge and understanding of epilepsy, […]
Management of tongue-tie (updated 2021)
What is tongue-tie? How can it impact on the woman and baby? What can be done to manage and treat it? This module will provide a basic knowledge of tongue-tie, a condition that can restrict the tongue’s movement because of a short, tight frenulum. You will learn about its impact on infant feeding and on […]
Cancer in pregnancy and beyond
Cancer is pregnancy remains uncommon, however, changes in lifestyle and a maturing maternity population is likely to increase the incidence. Receiving a diagnosis of cancer in pregnancy or soon after birth is difficult and challenging for the woman and her family. It is important that maternity practitioners are aware of some of the issues and […]
Newborn bloodspot screening
The information about this screening is complicated, given the number of disorders screened for and the range of potential results. As well as identifying those affected by these conditions, the screening also identifies those who are not affected but are carriers of the disorders and those who may have genetic alterations of unclear significance. Midwives […]
Health inequalities: the power of maternity care
This i-learn module will introduce ‘health inequalities’, before looking more closely at the role of midwives and maternity support workers and the power of maternity care to reduce health inequalities. By the end of this module you will: understand the relationship between people’s socioeconomic circumstances and their health understand how structural inequalities lead to health […]