39141 - Midwifery Skill 3 (RN)

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Docente: Nicoletta Della Chiara
  • 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 is able to identify the risk and manage and plan the care process, in relation to gynecological and urogynecological pathologies and emergency / urgency.

Course contents

1. Management of gynecological care processes in urgent-emergency

Obstetric-gynecological triage

Urgencies and emergencies, timeliness of the intervention and skills in the obstetric profession

Obstetric-gynecological semeiotics

Obstetric-gynecological triage

Earlywarningsystem and MEOWS

Obstetric emergencies

The STAM and the STEN

Audit and Risk management

Obstetric competence in emergencies

Hypovolemic shock - Atypical blood loss with severe bleeding: Menorrhagia, less-metrorrhagia, postmenopausal bleeding, genital trauma.

Uterine haemorrhages, Acute abdomen (haemorrhagic corpus luteum, ovarian cyst rupture, ovarian torsion, PID, GEU, OHSS)

Diseases of the first trimester of pregnancy: threat of abortion, spontaneous abortion, vesicular mole, hyperemesis gravidarum

Acute and intense uterine tenderness: dysmenorrhea, endometriosis, uterine fibroids - Sexual violence

2. Management of care processes in the preventive-gynecological field

Assessment of the state of health of the woman, gynecological semiotics, pelvic examination, clinical assessment of the breast

Care pathways in the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, the vaginal ecosystem and STDs

Care pathways in oncogynecology, care plan for women with oncological pathology: cervicocarcinoma, carcinoma of the vagina, cancer of the vulva and ovary, carcinoma of the endometrium

Care pathways in menopausal and climacteric women

Assistance plans in diagnostic and instrumental investigations: gynecological surgery, bacteriological and cytological examination, abdominal-pelvic and transvaginal instrumental examinations

Care plans in gynecological diseases: premenstrual syndrome, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, toxic shock, pelvic floor dysfunction

Sexological counseling

3. Obstetric competence in the obstetric-gynecological surgical area

Obstetric surgical assistance (Midwiferypre-intra-post operative)

Instrumental revision of cavities, uterine tamponade, cervical cerclage, assistance in manual afterbirth in the operating room

Caesarean section and hysterectomy

Vaginal interventions: diagnostic and operative hysteroscopy, marsupialization of Bartholin's gland cysts

Readings/Bibliography

L'ostetrica/o Esami e professioni Ed. Maggioli 2018

Infermieristica in area materno infantile Marchioni-Salerno Ed. Mc Graw Hill 2014

La disciplina ostetrica - Teoria - pratica e organizzazione della professioneGuana - Cappadona - Di Paolo - Pellegrini - Piga - Vicario, Editore: Mcgraw-Hill, Edizione: II 9/2011

Le competenze infermieristiche e ostetriche, metodi strumentali per costruirle e comunicarle, Maria Camera e Maria Rosaria Mascolo Ed.libreriauniversitaria.it, 2012

Urgenze ed emergenze in sala parto, A.Ragusa e C.CRescini, Ed Piccin 2017

Salute e nascita la salutogenesi in gravidanza, V.Schmid, Ed. Urra 2007

Teaching methods

Lectures / interactive / practical laboratory / Problem-basedlearning (PBL)

Assessment methods

Written and oral exam

Teaching tools

Slide and roleplaying

Obstetric and gynecological triage simulations

Obstetric assistance in the operating room

Office hours

See the website of Nicoletta Della Chiara