Clinical Response to Domestic and Family Violence CPD Hours: 1 This course outlines your role as a health professional in identifying and responding to domestic and family violence (DFV). Members: $0.00 / Non Members: $30.00 Purchase |
Medication and Drugs in Pregnancy CPD Hours: 1 Refresh your knowledge about the use of medication and other drugs in the antenatal period.
• Identify which medicines are safe for women to use during pregnancy.
• Describe how medicines are classified during pregnancy.
• Discuss available resources for women and health professionals, regarding medicine usage during pregnancy.
• Describe what should be said to women who are pregnant and smoke cigarettes.
• Discuss the risks and implications of alcohol use during pregnancy.
• Summarise the risk and implications of other drug use with women.
This course is from the Antenatal Care course. Members: $0.00 / Non Members: $30.00 Purchase |
Fetal Surveillance, Induction & Augmentation CPD Hours: 1 Learn about fetal surveillance, induction and augmentation and how to continue working in partnership with women throughout.
• Describe the different options for fetal monitoring during labour.
• Understand the role of electronic fetal monitoring and best practice in regards to fetal monitoring during labour.
• Awareness of options for induction and augmentation of labour and any related risks or benefits that need to be communicated to the woman.
• Reflect on your midwifery role in the context of providing evidence-based information to women.
This course is from the Labour & Birth Care course. Members: $0.00 / Non Members: $30.00 Purchase |
Hepatitis B Screening and Management in Pregnancy CPD Hours: 1 The Learning outcomes of this course:
• Increase awareness of hepatitis B epidemiology globally and in Australia
• Increase awareness of person-centred care that incorporates cultural safety, stigma sensitivity and health literacy
• Identify transmission risks for hepatitis B infection
• Understand why we screen pregnant women for hepatitis B
• Understand how to screen pregnant women for hepatitis B and interpret the serology results
• Understand the basics of how hepatitis B is managed during pregnancy and beyond
• Identity strategies that help to prevent the spread of hepatitis B Members: $0.00 / Non Members: $30.00 Purchase |
Supporting LGBTQ+ Parents and Families CPD Hours: 1 This education package will assist midwives to increase their understanding of the challenges LGBTQ+ families face and how to provide inclusive midwifery care.
Learning outcomes - Midwives will:
1. Gain greater understanding of how discrimination and bias impact LGBTQ+ identifying families in the context of midwifery care.
2. Gain knowledge and resources to be able to provide LGBTQ+ families with appropriate and individualised midwifery care. Members: $0.00 / Non Members: $30.00 Purchase |
Care of the Newborn CPD Hours: 1 Refresh your knowledge about caring for a newborn in the immediate postnatal period.
• Describe neonatal postnatal care in the initial hours after birth.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the neonate’s transition to extrauterine life.
• Summarise ongoing postnatal care of the neonate, including: the Neonatal Screening Test, the Newborn Hearing Test, jaundice, safe infant sleeping and responding to infant health issues.
This course is from the Postnatal Care course. Members: $0.00 / Non Members: $30.00 Purchase |
Variations of Normal Birth CPD Hours: 1 Birth happens in many different ways. Learn about working in partnership with women during Breech, VBAC, Emergency Care & Birth in Theatre.
• Understand the current practices and care requirements for a woman with a breech presentation.
• Understand the current practices and care requirements for a woman wishing to have a vaginal birth after caesarean.
• Understand your requirements for the provision of emergency care.
• Be able to identify key areas of practice that may influence the care you provide.
• Describe your role in supporting women who birth in theatre.
• Be able to refer to and use the ACM’s Midwifery Guidelines for Consultation & Referral
This course is from the Labour & Birth Care course. Members: $0.00 / Non Members: $30.00 Purchase |
Prenatal Screening and Down syndrome CPD Hours: 1 At the end of this eLearning course, you will be able to:
1. Explain what Down syndrome is;
2. Describe what informed consent is, and how this relates to prenatal screening;
3. Outline the screening and diagnosis options, and discuss the difference between screening and diagnosis;
4. Explore how best to communicate with women about prenatal screening, including how and who to refer families to, to support informed decision making; and
5. Consider how midwives can best support and care for women and their families surrounding prenatal screening, options and decision-making in a way which respects diversity as well as a woman’s right to make an informed choice.
This course is free to access for all and is accredited by the Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine. $0.00 Purchase |
Antenatal Screening & Fetal Anomalies CPD Hours: 1 Refresh your knowledge about providing antenatal care to women regarding screenings and fetal anomalies.
• Explain why testing is offered and describe the conditions that may be diagnosed.
• Identify the difference between screening and diagnosis.
• Discuss screening for fetal structural anomalies, and screening and diagnostic testing of chromosomal and genetic conditions.
• Identify any issues that may occur in antenatal screening and discuss them with the woman.
• Interpret the evidence and assist women to make decisions on which screening option will best suit their needs.
This course is from the Antenatal Care course. Members: $0.00 / Non Members: $30.00 Purchase |
Understanding Domestic and Family Violence CPD Hours: 1 This course is an information resource to help all health professionals raise awareness and understanding of domestic and family violence (DFV), provide information on how to recognise DFV and how to respond to a disclosure of DFV sensitively and in a way that supports safety. Members: $0.00 / Non Members: $30.00 Purchase |
Vaginal Birth After Caesarean (VBAC) CPD Hours: 1 Explore the rates of VBAC, aspects of uterine rupture and how to support a woman who is planning a VBAC.
• Understand the different global and Australian VBAC rates
• Understand the occurrence and signs of uterine rupture
• Understand the impact of the four factors that influence how a woman feels after her planned VBAC
Members: $0.00 / Non Members: $30.00 Purchase |
Water Immersion in Labour and Birth CPD Hours: 1 The goal throughout this learning experience is to enhance the skills you already have and give you the confidence to support the women in your care encompassing some of the tools to the successful use of Water Immersion in Labour and Birth. To give you the skills, knowledge and confidence to manage complications that may arise in labour and birth in water. Members: $0.00 / Non Members: $30.00 Purchase |
Congenital CMV: Prevention is in your hands CPD Hours: 2 This free course is for midwives and midwifery students as well as other maternity health care professionals. The course provides information about CMV and congenital CMV, which is CMV infection passed from a mother to baby during pregnancy. The course aims to update you on how congenital CMV can adversely affect babies, and prevention strategies for reducing the risk of infection during pregnancy.
• What CMV is and how it is spread.
• What cCMV is and how it can affect babies.
• Current recommendations for serological testing of maternal CMV.
• Recommended prevention strategies for reducing the risk of CMV infection and transmission during pregnancy.
• The role of midwives in counselling pregnant women about CMV.
• Current CMV education resources.
This course is free to access for all.
$0.00 Purchase |
COVID-19 Vaccine in Pregnancy CPD Hours: 2 COVID-19 vaccination is now recommended for all pregnant women. This eLearning course delivers an analysis of the latest evidence and arms midwives with the knowledge and tools to counsel the women in their care about the options available to them. It’s important that you feel equipped to answer women's questions and address their concerns.
This course is free for all users.
$0.00 Purchase |
 Breastfeeding Challenges CPD Hours: 2 Breastfeeding Challenges is Course 3 of the Breastfeeding Bundle.
Childbirth and breastfeeding is an extraordinary and challenging life event, which profoundly influences a woman's physical, social and emotional well-being.
The care, information and emotional support that the midwife offers a woman, and her chosen companions sets the scene to protect the woman's physical well-being and nurture her emotional strengths, as she becomes a mother.
This course addresses 12 to 20 of the twenty core competencies that the Baby Friendly Health Initiative (BFHI) considers essential skills for all personnel who counsel and assist breastfeeding women.
• Counsel a mother who thinks she does not have enough milk.
• Counsel a mother with an unsettled baby.
• Counsel a mother on selecting and using an alternative feeding method.
• Counsel a mother whose baby is refusing to breastfeed.
• Counsel a mother who has flat or inverted nipples.
• Counsel a mother with engorged breasts.
• Counsel a mother with sore or cracked nipples.
• Counsel a mother with mastitis.
• Support a mother to breastfeed a low-birth-weight, preterm or sick baby.
$60.00 Purchase |
Breastfeeding Counselling CPD Hours: 2 Establishing Breastfeeding is Course 1 of the Breastfeeding Bundle.
Childbirth and breastfeeding is an extraordinary and challenging life event, which profoundly influences a woman's physical, social and emotional well-being.
The care, information and emotional support that the midwife offers a woman, and her chosen companions sets the scene to protect the woman's physical well-being and nurture her emotional strengths, as she becomes a mother.
This course addresses 1 to 4 of the twenty core competencies that the Baby Friendly Health Initiative (BFHI) considers essential skills for all personnel who counsel and assist breastfeeding women.
• Use listening skills when counselling a mother.
• Use skills for building a mother’s confidence and giving support.
• Counsel a pregnant woman about breastfeeding.
• Counsel a mother to make an informed and appropriate decision about infant feeding, suitable to her circumstances $60.00 Purchase |
 Establishing Breastfeeding CPD Hours: 2 Establishing Breastfeeding is Course 2 of the Breastfeeding Bundle.
Childbirth and breastfeeding is an extraordinary and challenging life event, which profoundly influences a woman's physical, social and emotional well-being.
The care, information and emotional support that the midwife offers a woman, and her chosen companions sets the scene to protect the woman's physical well-being and nurture her emotional strengths, as she becomes a mother.
This course addresses 5 to 11 of the twenty core competencies that the Baby Friendly Health Initiative (BFHI) considers essential skills for all personnel who counsel and assist breastfeeding women.
• Help a mother to recognise when her baby is ready to initiate breastfeeding while in skin to-skin contact after birth.
• Support a mother to position herself and her baby for breastfeeding.
• Support a mother to attach her baby to the breast, encouraging baby-led attachment.
• Assess a breastfeed; including teaching a mother how to monitor milk transfer.
• Explain to a mother about feeding cues and the optimal pattern of breastfeeding.
• Using hands-off techniques, assist a mother to express her breast milk.
• Explain to a mother how to know if her baby is getting enough milk.
$60.00 Purchase |
 Birthing on Country CPD Hours: 3 Birthing on Country is a service delivery model for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to access culturally safe and equitable maternity care.
Although Birthing on Country has been occurring for thousands of years, birthing ‘off’ country is more prevalent now, due to the lack of services and access to midwives, for women in rural and remote areas. In addition to lack of physical access to appropriate health professionals and services, when accessible, most mainstream services use a blanket approach for all women. These services are often implemented for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women without their involvement. This approach is proven to be harmful to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, causing more distress and increasing clinical and medical risks.
The BoC e-Learning Resource has been developed as part of the Australian College of Midwives (ACM), Merck Sharp Dohme (MSD) Birthing on Country Project which is supported by a grant from MSD through its Merck for Mothers Program.
This course is free to access for all.
$0.00 Purchase |
Neonatal Resuscitation CPD Hours: 3 In this course we describe the goals, assessment and procedures involved in basic neonatal resuscitation. Completing this course to re-enforce your knowledge. $90.00 Purchase |
Epidural and Spinal Analgesia CPD Hours: 3 Refresh your knowledge about the management of epidural and spinal analgesia for labour and birth.
In this course we describe the assessment and procedures involved in providing the woman with epidural and/or spinal analgesia during labour and birth, as well as ongoing care once the baby has been born. Completing this course will re-enforce your knowledge in how to manage epidural and/or spinal analgesia.
$90.00 Purchase |