Crana Plus Maternity Emergency Course in Darwin

Learn what to do if a pregnant woman presented at your clinic and no midwife was available.

Designed for Nurses, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners, Paramedics and Medical Officers, the Maternity Emergency Care course enables the remote health workforce to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to provide emergency care for expectant mothers and their babies in a remote or isolated setting.

The CRANAplus Mater­ni­ty Emer­gency Care course con­sists of the fol­low­ing components.

• Online pre-course mate­ri­als and assess­ments that must be com­plet­ed one week before the workshop
• Atten­dance at a two-day face-to-face work­shop con­sist­ing of guid­ed dis­cus­sions, prac­ti­cal skill sta­tions and con­text based scenarios
• Two indi­vid­ual sce­nario based clin­i­cal skills assessments

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Demon­strate the prin­ci­ples of unplanned or emer­gency man­age­ment of a preg­nant & labour­ing woman and care imme­di­ate­ly after childbirth.
• Assess and man­age to the fol­low­ing mater­nal and neona­tal complications:
  • Pre-term labour
  • Bleed­ing in pregnancy
  • Dia­betes
  • Hyper­ten­sion
  • Pre-eclam­p­sia
  • Mater­nal trau­ma, dete­ri­o­ra­tion and resuscitation
  • Neona­tal Resuscitation
  • Post par­tum haemorrhage

Fam­i­ly Vio­lence and Peri­na­tal Men­tal Health are also discussed.

Financial support to attend

CRANAplus Mem­bers receive a dis­count on face-to-face course reg­is­tra­tion and are eli­gi­ble to apply for var­i­ous CRANAplus pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment grants to meet the costs asso­ci­at­ed with course atten­dance. You can also find a list of grants and schol­ar­ships offered by exter­nal providers, such as the Health Work­force Schol­ar­ship Pro­gram, on our Path­way Incen­tives page.

This course will sell out fast so be quick.

Cost

Member: $930

Non member: $1030

CPD

CPD hours are self-record­ed and self-report­ed if audit­ed. 1 hour = 1 CPD point.

Questions?

Phone: (07) 4047 6400