Level 6 (20 credits) Evidence-Based Care for Normal Birth - Single module
- Part-time study available
- NHS Funding and bursaries available
- Duration :
Part-time, one semester, intake September
3 good reasons to study Evidence-Based Care for Normal Birth at Salford
- Support and promote normal birth and challenge the medicalisation of birth
- Increase your confidence to practice autonomously
- Taught by subject experts
You can take this course as a single module for continuing professional development or as part of BSc (Hons) Enhancing Professional Health Care Practice
The module will explore:
- Normal birth
- Physiology of birth
- Autonomy and the midwife
- Historical and contemporary influences on birth practices
- Importance of normal birth with reference to psychology (experiences of women and their families), sociology (impact on society, cultural issues), midwifery (the role of the midwife), public health (long-term outcomes)
- Different models of birth, social, biomedical, holistic
- Factors optimising a woman's chances of normal birth
- Midwifery skills to support difficult births
- The purpose of pain in labour
- Physiology and psychology of pain and pain relief
- Non-pharmacological pain relief: aromatherapy, reflexology, hypnotherapy