Duration: 4 years
Course description:
A four-year degree program consisting of general education and professional courses which prepare registered midwives for higher level midwifery competencies? The program includes Clinical Practicum in Management of OB Emergencies and High Risk Pregnancies, Care of Infants and Children, Comprehensive Family Planning, Community Health Service Management, Community Health Care Facility Management, Midwifery Pharmacology, Research, Entrepreneurship, Administration and Supervision. Students of the program may select from any of the following Midwifery Majors: Education, Community Health, Reproductive Health, Administration and Supervision or Health Care Facility Management.
COURSE OBJECTIVE
Develop higher level competencies of a midwife as a health care provider: educator, researcher, supervisor and health care facility manager /entrepreneur.
Specifically, this enables the graduates to:
• Give the necessary supervision, care and advice to high-risks parturient;
• Execute emergency measures in the absence of medical practitioners;
• Provide family planning services;
• Provide Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) services;
• Manage MCH clinics at the community level;
• Facilitate community organizing and social mobilization for community development;
• Engage in independent, entrepreneurial health activities including management of primary health care facilities;
• Implement/manage midwifery programs;
• Perform other health related functions as may be deemed necessary by appropriate agency.
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