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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Maternity Care: Building Relationships Really Does Save Lives
Griffith University
This course explored how quality relationships between mothers, midwives and other health professionals can transform maternity care and save lives. Topics included the outcomes of the current state of maternity care, the evidence-based agenda for change, globally-developed frameworks to guide implementation, and case studies demonstrating relationship-based care in practice. Learners developed their own goals and action plans to work towards implementing continuity of care in their local area.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Jenny Gamble
Professor of Midwifery
Griffith University
Mary Sidebotham
Associate Professor of Midwifery
Griffith University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Summarise the key problems in the current provision of maternity care
- Explain what a relationship framework for maternity services is
- Justify why a relationship framework for maternity services can produce better outcomes for mother, baby, maternity care providers, and society
- Describe the organisational model that can facilitate relationship-based care for maternity services
- Develop a plan for action you or your community could implement to begin to affect change in this area
Syllabus
- The current state of maternity care and its effect on women, babies and families, as well as midwives, other health professionals, and the health service
- The case for reform – why moving to a relationship-based maternity care model significantly improves outcomes across all areas
- The evidence behind the efficacy of relationship-based maternity care – it really does save lives
- What relationship-based care involves - the overarching principles and what it means in the context of maternity care
- An outline of the relationship framework (organisational model) that best facilitates quality relationship-based care
- Demonstrations of relationship-based maternity care in practice
- Affecting change from a grassroots level - the power of individuals and groups
- How you can help – practical ways to help make relationship-based care available in your area
Issued on 15th March 2020
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