Disc 1: 2 hours, 15 minutes

Disc 2: 2 hours, 18 minutes

Disc 1:

Introduction

1. Requirements

• Confidentiality
• Teamwork
• Availability while on call
• Personal appearance
• Midwife's assistant birth bag

2. Duties

• When you arrive at the birth
• Care of the mother

3. Informed Choice

4. The Delivery

• Role of the midwife's assitant and duties at the delivery
• Birth setup

5. Postpartum

• Suture setup
• Newborn exam setup
• Items for mother ostpartum

6. Waterbirth

7. Cleanup Duties

8. Blood Pressure

9. Leopold's Maneuvers

10. Fetal Heart Auscultation

• Doppler demonstration

11. Record-Keeping

• Record-keeping in an emergency

12. Emergency Medical Services

• Calling EMS
• Preparing for EMS to arrive

DVD 2:

13. Emergency Procedures

• Role-playing with your birth team to prepare for emergency situations
• Non-reassuring fetal heart rates
• Undiagnosed breech
• shoulder dystocia
• Supre-pubic pressure
• Maternal Shock
• Postpartum hemmorrhage

14. Oxygen Usuage

• Oxygen setup
• Oxygen procedures
• Maternal administration
• Newborn admnistration
• Checking the ambu bag
• Oxygen shutoff
• Free-flow oxygen
• Newborn Suction Procedure
• Oxygen setup with laryngoscope and intubation equipment

15. Resuscitation of the Newborn

• Scenario #1: Vigorous newborn
• Scenarios #2: Meconium, vigorous newborn
• Scenario #3: Oral cyanosis of newborn
• Scenario #4: Low respirations, low muscle tone, central syanosis
• Neo-natal resuscitation setup

16. Intravenous Fluid Administration

• Intravenous fluid setup
• IV demonstration
• Starting an IV for the purpose of administring IV antibiotic therapy during labor
• Removing the IV

Charlene Wheatley Campbell