General Skills DVD

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The General Skills for the Student Midwife DVD set is a great opportunity for student midwives to learn and review basic midwifery skills that are essential to their midwifery education. Skills are demonstrated by experienced midwives and nurses and are interspersed with real live examples of the skills described. Valuable discussions of the management of maternal and newborn vitals outside of normal range by a registered midwife are also included.

Jodie Fisher, President of the Midwives College of Utah has this to say about this fabulous new teaching for midwives and their apprentices:

Lainna Wheatley, an MCU faculty member, has just published an incredible DVD resource for student midwives General Skills for the Student Midwife.

This is a terrific set for helping your apprentices prepare to be more helpful and effective as they begin working in your practice.


 This is a MUST HAVE set for any student midwife wanting to:

  1. See hands-on skills being performed over and over again.
  2. Be introduced to skills before they begin practicing on clients.
  3. Speedup their acquisition of specific skills.
  4. Build more confidence in their performance of certain skills.
  5. Be more prepared for when they begin their preceptorship.�

Table of Contents:

  1. Hand washing
  2. Gloving and Ungloving
  3. Sterile Technique
  4. Sterilization of Instruments
  5. Universal Precautions
  6. Oxygen Set-Up � Maternal and Newborn
  7. Basic Treatment of Shock (allopathic and non-allopathic methods)
  8. Maternal Temperature Assessment (with explanation and management of outside normal range)
  9. Maternal Pulse (with explanation and management of outside normal range)
  10. Maternal Respiratory Assessment (with explanation and management of outside normal range)
  11. Maternal Skin Assessment
  12. Use of Stethoscope & Blood Pressure cuff/Maternal Blood Pressure (with explanation and management of outside normal range)
  13. Eye exam
  14. Ear exam
  15. Intramuscular Injection – Maternal and Newborn
  16. Newborn Temperature Assessment (with explanation and management of outside normal range)
  17. Newborn Pulses (with explanation and management of outside normal range)
  18. Respiratory Assessment of the Newborn (with explanation and management of outside normal range)
  19. Apgar Scoring Assessment

Presenters include:

  • Lainna Wheatley BScM MScM
  • Elizabeth Herman RN CBE
  • Norma Hillsman RN MSN APRN BC FNP
  • Louann Janicki RN MSN BC FNP
  • Barbara Barta RM

Film Content Consultants include:

  • Jodie Palmer President MCU
  • Richelle Jolley, CTM, CPM
  • Sonia Ochio CPM
  • Suzanne Smith CPM LDEM
  • Jacqueline Wachell DIA
* Many portions of this DVD were filmed at UBC Okanagan with the cooperation of the Nursing Department and Professor Lou Ann Janicki RN MSN BC FNP.

“General Skills for the Student Midwife DVD’s helped me tremendously. I had taken an EMT course and compared the two and found Lainna’s teachings superior to any I have seen. The instruction on how to use the otoscope and ophthalmoscope helped me understand my newly purchased instruments.”

Suzanna Ford Fass

Midwfery Student

I just wanted to tell you how blessed I have been through you during this course. You are an inspiration. Skilled birth attendant, author, songwriter, actress, and mother (catching your own baby no less!). Through this course you have made me laugh, made me cry, made me think, and taught me to be a better (future) midwife. Thank you for sharing yourself and your time to help those of us on this path.

Kate

Student Midwife