SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVE:

At the completion of this course, the students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills in the following areas:

1. Understand the ethics and the personal and social issues and attitudes of the midwife’s assistant and the midwife in the Apprenticeship Model.
2. Understand the requirements of the midwife’s assistant and prepare a Midwife’s Assistant Birth Bag.
3. Be oriented on the basics of being a competent assistant to the midwife during prenatal care, birth and postpartum care.
4. Understand the basic concepts of labor support and non-pharmacological pain management, including water labor and water birth.
5. Have a detailed knowledge of the midwife’s assistant’s duties before, during and after delivery.
6. Understand the role of the midwife’s assistant in various common emergency situations and how to assist the primary midwife to manage them safely.
7. Demonstrate how to set up for birth, resuscitation, IV, suturing, and newborn exam.
8. Be familiar with the MCU Clinical Program
9. Understand the theory and procedure of the following general skills:
   • Maternal temperature assessment
   • Maternal pulse
   • Maternal respiratory assessment
   • Use of stethoscope
   • Maternal blood pressure
   • Use of fetoscope or Doppler
   • Leopold’s maneuvers
   • Fundal height measurement
   • Fetal heart rate normal and abnormal
   • Newborn temperature assessment
   • Newborn pulse
   • Respiratory and cardiac assessment of the newborn
   • Apgar assessment
   • Hand washing
   • Gloving and ungloving
   • Sterile technique
   • Sterilization of instruments
   • Standard precautions
   • Adult and infant CPR
   • Basic treatment of shock
   • Oxygen set-up
   • Administration of oxygen to the birthing parent
   • Parent and newborn intramuscular injection

Midwives College of Utah. (2021). MDWF 1050- Midwife’s Assistant Orientation Syllabus.