39088 - Midwifery (BO)

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Benedetta Dini
  • Credits: 2
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Midwifery (cod. 9201)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module the student possesses the ability to apply knowledge and understanding regarding the historical and legislative facts that have determined the cultural and professional evolution of the midwife figure with particular regard to the transition from practical-empirical assistance, purely to female, to structured and organized assistance based on scientific knowledge.

Course contents

  1. Birth cultures: evolution of the midwife's skills, autonomy and responsibilities
  2. Concepts of physiology, pathology and risk
  3. Regulatory references and training evolution of the Midwife
  4. Concept of “Midwifery”
  5. Areas of competence of the Midwife's own field of activity and responsibility
  6. Analysis of the type of care activity
  7. From “Colleges of Midwives” to “Professional Orders” - National Federation of Orders of the Midwifery Profession (FNOPO)
  8. Code of Conduct - Professional secret
  9. International Code of Ethics for Midwives (ICM 1993)‏
  10. International reports (NEMIR and EMA)

Readings/Bibliography

TEACHING MATERIALS:

•W. Costantini, Trattando di Scienza ed Arte della professionalità ostetrica, Vol. I, Piccin, Padova 2021

• V. Schmid, Salute e nascita. La salutogenesi in gravidanza, Urra-Apogeo, Milano 2007

RECOMMENDED READING:

•Verena Schmid, Venire al mondo e dare alla luce. Percorsi di vita attraverso la nascita, Feltrinelli, 2014;

•Ina May Gaskin, La Gioia del Parto. Segreti e virtù del corpo femminile durante il travaglio e la nascita, Bonomi editore;

•G. T. Bulbarelli, La levatrice, Egida Minerva, Bologna, 2021

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Individual and group work

Assessment methods

oral examination

Teaching tools

slides and videos

Office hours

See the website of Benedetta Dini