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SUPPORTING WOMEN TO BREASTFEED

Completing this course will re-enforce your knowledge onhow to best support women withtheir breastfeeding challenges,queries and concerns.

Duration:  8 hours Price:  $176.00  |  $352.00 Course access:  Access will begranted for 12 months fromenrolment

This course is designed for qualified midwives who want to refreshtheir knowledge about breastfeeding.

In this course, we describe the knowledge and skills midwivesrequire to successfully assist women to instigate and then continueto breastfeed their babies.  The content within this course covers:       • Breastfeeding in Australia       • How breastfeeding works       • Breastfeeding in the first 24 hours       • Getting breastfeeding off to a good start       • Breastfeeding challenges       • Breastfeeding equipment       • Continuing to breastfeed       • Mothers not breastfeeding

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NEONATAL RESUSCITATION

Duration:  3 hours Price:  $88.00  |  $132.00 Course access:  Access will begranted for 12 months fromenrolment

Completing this course will re-enforce your knowledge inneonatal resuscitation.

This course is designed for qualifiedmidwives who want to refresh theirknowledge about neonatalresuscitation.

Childbirth is an extraordinary and challenging life event whichprofoundly influences a woman’s physical, social and emotional well-being. The care, information and emotional support that the midwifeoffers the labouring woman and her chosen companions can set thescene to protect the woman’s physical wellbeing and nurture heremotional strengths.

EPIDURAL & SPINAL ANALGESIACompleting this e-Learning course will re-enforce your knowledgein how to manage epidural and/or spinal analgesia.

This course is designed for qualifiedmidwives who want to refresh theirknowledge about the management ofepidural and spinal analgesia for labourand birth.

The care, information and emotional support that the midwife offersthe labouring woman and her chosen companions can set the sceneto protect the woman’s physical well being and nurture heremotional strengths as she becomes a mother.

In this course we describe the assessment and procedures involvedin providing the woman with epidural and/or spinal analgesia duringlabour and birth, as well as ongoing care once the baby has beenborn.

Duration:  3 hours Price:  $88.00  |  $132.00 Course access:  Access will begranted for 12 months fromenrolment

MIDWIFERY INITIATED ORAL HEALTH

The Midwifery Initiated Oral Health (MIOH) e-learning course hasbeen designed to provide qualified midwives with the necessaryskills for assessing and initiating oral health care for womenduring pregnancy and postnatal.

Duration:  16 hours Price:  $176.00  |  $352.00 Funded positions available forVIC midwives through DHSV Course access:  Access will begranted for 12 months fromenrolment

This course was prepared by theCentre for Oral Health Outcomes &Research Translation in collaborationwith Centre for Applied NursingResearch, Sydney & SouthWestern Sydney Local Health Districts,  Sydney Dental Hospital, Western Sydney University andthe Australian College of Midwives (ACM). It is supported by theNSW Centre for Oral Health Strategy.

By completing this e-learning course, midwives will have theopportunity to expand their knowledge of oral health in womenduring pregnancy and postnatal; develop confidence in their clinicalpractice in the field of oral health and associated care requirements;and provide evidence to their colleagues that they areprofessionally capable to initiate oral health care plans for women.

WOMEN WANT TO KNOW:PREGNANCY & ALOCHOL

This e-Learning course has beendeveloped for midwives inpartnership with the Foundation forAlcohol Research & Education(FARE).

This course is designed for midwives who want to refresh theirknowledge on how to advise women about alcohol in pregnancy andwhilst breastfeeding and is an essential component of the WomenWant to Know project.  This project is supported by funding from the Australian GovernmentDepartment of Health and aims to encourage health professionals toroutinely discuss alcohol and pregnancy with women and to provideadvice that is consistent with the National Health and MedicalResearch Council’s Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risksfrom Drinking Alcohol. The content within this course covers: •  effects of alcohol consumption during pregnancy; •  effects of alcohol consumption when breastfeeding; •  what women want to know about alcohol and pregnancy andfacilitating discussions about alcohol consumption with women; •  Assessing and advising women about their alcohol consumption •  Dealing with complex presentations and referral.

Duration:  3 hours Price:  Free Course access:  Access will begranted for 12 months fromenrolment

TELEHEALTH FOR MIDWIVESThis free course has been designed to provide midwives withinformation on how to integrate telehealth into their practice. It aimsto help you meet the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia's CPDrequirements for ongoing registration. The course will takeapproximately 4 hours to complete, which equates to 4 CPD hours.

DEHYDRATION:Concerns and considerations for midwives

Duration:  8 hours Price:  $88.00  |  $176.00 Course access:  Access will begranted for 12 months fromenrolment

This course is provided by the Australian College of Midwives inconsultation with the Hydration Pharmaceuticals Trust.

This course is designed for qualified midwives who want to refreshtheir knowledge about the causes, risks, prevention and treatmentof dehydration. The material describes the considerations andconcerns you may have in caring for women with dehydrationduring pregnancy. Completing this course will reinforce your knowledge and skills toconfidently manage dehydration in pregnancy, as well as helping toeducate women about how to prevent dehydration from occurring. Midwives will complete the following e-learning modules: • The physiology and pathophysiology of dehydration • Dehydration in pregnancy, labour and postnatal • Measures for managing and preventing dehydration

2019 WEBINAR CALENDARACM delivers a minimum of 12 new webinars peryear each attracting on average 1 CPD hour.Webinars can be accessed either at the live eventor as a recording at a later date, if the live time didnot suit an individual’s work/familyschedule.  Register for an upcoming webinar byvisiting www.midwives.org.au/our-events.

The importance of the midwifeCONTINENCE PROMOTION:

This course is designed for qualified midwives who want to refreshtheir knowledge about bladder, bowel and pelvic floor health. As key health care practitioners involved in the care of womenduring childbearing, midwives are in a unique position to be able topromote bladder, bowel and pelvic floor health.  By completing thiscourse you will learn more about: • Anatomy and function of the pelvic floor and the perineum;       • Normal bladder and bowel function; • Disorders of continence and the pelvic floor; • Anatomy and physiology of the bladder, bowel and pelvic floorduring pregnancy and postnatal; • Impact of childbirth on continence and the pelvic floor; and • Postnatal care and long term issues The full Continence Promotion course has been approved for 8 ACM CPD Recognition Hours, which means that you can accrue up to 40% of your annual CPD hours. Are you only interested in one of these topics? Do you only needto accrue 1-2 CPD hours? Continence Foundation Australia and theACM are very excited to announce that the Continence Promotioncourse is now available as individual modules.

Duration:  8 hours Price:  $88.00  |  $176.00 Course access:  Access will begranted for 12 months fromenrolment

This course is provided by theContinence Foundation of Australiain consultation with the AustralianCollege of Midwives. 

PROFESSIONAL PEER REVIEW

The Professional Peer Review course has been designed as anintroduction for midwives to the Peer Review Process and its rolewithin the healthcare sector.

Duration:  5 hours Price:  $110.00  |  $220.00 Course access:  Access will begranted for 12 months fromenrolment

By completing the course you willlearn about the purpose of peerreview and the benefit that itprovides to various stakeholders,as well as the process and roles involved in typical Peer Review.  You will also learn about key skillsthat a Peer Reviewer will be able to draw on during the Peer Reviewprocess.

This course is a pre-requisite for people wishing to become areviewer for the Australian College of Midwives' MidwiferyPractice Review program, or assessor for the Baby Friendly HealthInitiative program.

Completing this course will provide you with a solid foundation andunderstanding of the Peer Review process and is designed toincrease your general knowledge and awareness, especially if youare considering becoming a Peer Reviewer.

COMING SOON!

REFRESHER PROGRAM FOR MIDWIVES

This program has been designed by the Australian College of Midwives(ACM) for Midwives holding general registration with the Nursing andMidwifery Board of Australia  (NMBA).  The program refreshes midwives existing knowledge and skills by drawingon current evidence, research and practice. This is a theory based package.

Any midwife can undertake this theorybased package. This program does notinclude any clinical placement. Midwives looking to refresh their clinicalskills can find options listed on the ACMwebsite.  They must meet the NMBARecency of Practice RegistrationStandard and hold a generalregistration. Midwives needing to update clinicalskills to meet regulatory requirementssuch as conditions on registration willneed to follow the guidelines of theAustralian Health PractitionerRegulation Agency for re-entry topractice. Midwives will be able to align theirexisting skills and experience to theirrefreshed knowledge of contemporarymidwifery practice.  $999.00 ACM members / $1998.00non-members 37 Core hours + access to 16 electivehours Online study over six months from thetime of enrolment.

Midwives Requirements The ProgramThe program delivers 37 hours oflearning across the Core modules. Midwives have access to an additional16 Elective hours as well as the ACMwebinar recording library offering over60 hours of additional learningopportunity. Core Modules • Introduction to contemporarymidwifery practice in Australia; • Assessment and management of theantenatal period including commonpregnancy variations; • Assessment and management oflabour and birth; • Assessment and management of thepostnatal period; • Assessment and management ofneonatal resuscitation; • Assessment and management ofbreastfeeding, including commoncomplications. Elective Modules • Epidural & Spinal Analgesia • Perineal care and management • Hydration requirements duringpregnancy • Professional Peer Review • Midwifery Initiated Oral Health

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BABY FRIENDLY HEALTH INITIATIVE (BFHI) ASSESSOR COURSE

This course has been designed for Baby Friendly Health Initiative(BFHI) Assessors, both new assessors and a refresher for existingassessors.

Duration:  6 hours Course access:  Access will begranted for 12 months fromenrolment

By completing this course you will learn about the BFHIaccreditation and re accreditation process in Australia, as well ashow the criteria are assessed in health facilities.  You will also learnabout key skills that a BFHI Assessor will be able to draw on duringthe BFHI assessment process.

This course, together with what you have learnt in the ProfessionalPeer Review course, will provide you with a solid foundation andunderstanding of the BFHI program and is designed to increaseyour understanding of the role of BFHI Assessors.

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