Maternal and Infant Health Across Perinatal Period (Synchronous & Asynchronous)

Course Objectives

Learners will be able to:

• illustrate the purpose, rationale, activities, and performance measures for promoting care to pregnant women, new mothers, and their new-borns.
• understand importance of incorporating family-centred care in enhancing overall well-being of pregnant couples, new mothers, and the infants across the perinatal period;
• identify factors to promote breast-feeding.
• practice and promote family-centered care to support new parents in the community settings;
• provide breast-feeding support and education to new mothers.
• advocate health and well-being of pregnant women, new mothers and their new-borns across the perinatal period; and
• adopt culturally appropriate care for maternal and infant health.

What You'll Learn

This module emphasizes on promoting maternal and infant health across the perinatal period. Learners will incorporate evidence based care to promote health and well-being of pregnant women, new mothers, and their new-borns across the perinatal period in primary care. The module will allow learners to practise and promote family-centred care to support new parents in the community settings.

Minimum Entry Requirement

A Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in a related discipline.

Applicants without a Bachelors' degree but with relevant work experience are also eligible