91122 - Innovative Models of Caring and Ethics in Midwifery (RN)

Learning outcomes

• By the end of the course, the student should possess knowledge and skills in the maternal and child care setting to identify needs, manage pathways , ensure integration and networking, gender-based care, and identify the appropriate care model.

Course contents

• Introduction to midwifery science: peculiarities of midwifery intervention nationally and internationally.
• The organizational environment and context of midwifery care in Italy: hospital area Hub and Spoke systems and family counseling area.
• DM 70/2015 Regulation defining qualitative, structural, technological and quantitative standards of hospital care: the Clinical Care Network model for Neonatology and Birth Points.
• Models and standards for the development of Territorial Care in the National Health Service: "Services for the health of children, women, couples and families."
• Models of women's health promotion and family and community midwifery.
• Determination of criteria indicators and quality standards in midwifery care and organization.
• Organizational models: general principles.
  The Department: the departmental organizational model of the maternal and child area.
• The models of care and orientation: of WHO, NICE , LG-SNL-ISS guidelines.
  Conceptual and operational models in the obstetric discipline.
• National and international obstetric organizational models: Italy, England, Canada, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands .
• Obstetrically managed functional areas the Birth Center model: Free-standing Units and Along-side Units , criteria and standards.
• Midwifery care and the concept of Midwifery Sensitive Outcomes.
• Maternity Health Policies and Models: "Ethical Framework for Respectful Maternity Care during Pregnancy and Childbirth."
  

Readings/Bibliography

• Reference bibliography will be given during the course.
• Teaching materials provided by the instructor.

Teaching methods

• Lectures with use of power point and flipchart
  Classroom presentation and dicussion of clinical and/or organizational cases.
• Analysis of National and International models and examples in the maternal and infant area and guided discussion.

Assessment methods

• The student will be required to take a written exam with preparation of a project work on the implications in 'care of organizational models in maternal and child care and their impact in the health care system.
• Predefined project work preparation timelines correlated with the appeal dates defined by the integrated course.

Teaching tools

• Video projector for power point presentations
  Flip chart.
• Materials with case studies in the maternal and child area, prepared by the lecturer.

Office hours

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