Obstetric Pharmacology For Midwives
MDWF 2070
As midwives, we are responsible for providing high quality, comprehensive care to clients during their pregnancy and the birth of their baby. The expertise of midwives includes supporting and honoring uncomplicated pregnancy and birth. It must also include the knowledge, skill and ability to take action when intervention is necessary to improve health outcomes for client and baby. This expertise requires that midwives be knowledgeable about both life-saving medications and those used to ease common discomforts of pregnancy.
This course will focus on the medications, both prescribed and available over-the-counter, that midwives will encounter when providing care for clients and newborns during the antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum periods. The course will provide an introduction to the ways in which pregnancy impacts the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs and the actions of these drugs in the body. Protocols for both common and life-saving medications will be developed to assist you in caring for your clients.
Midwifery College of Utah. (2023, Winter). Mdwf 2070 Obstetric Pharmacology For Midwives [Course Syllabus] Available from midwifery.edu