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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
2 credits This course facilitates competency in the advanced management of normal pregnancy and birth and is intended for enrollees in the naturopathic midwifery program. Topics covered include prenatal assessment skills, maternal physiological changes in pregnancy, pelvimetry, charting and prenatal testing. Also covered are advanced normal labor and delivery management, including cardinal movements, monitoring protocols, common complications, hand maneuvers, birth positions, waterbirth and introductory neonatal assessment and management. Students practice conducting prenatal consults, cervical dilation assessment, initial and routine visits, client education and telephone assessment and consultation. Prerequisite: MW7320
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2.00 Credits
2 credits This course provides an opportunity for students to study areas of interest in greater detail than is covered in the regular curriculum. With the aid of a selected resource person, the student may explore any topic within the area of childbirth. The student is responsible for submitting an independent study form to the program chair which includes learning objectives, evaluation method and timeline. Students may study more than one topic, using a separate course number for each topic. Two credits are required in the naturopathic midwifery program. Prerequisites: MW7321 and permission of department chair
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1.00 Credits
1 credit This course offers an overview of the current trends in and methods of teaching childbirth education classes and prepares students to teach childbirth education classes. Concepts of instruction, learning and effective means of conveying both factual information and practical skills to expectant parents are presented. Students are required to attend and critique at least one community childbirth education class session and to teach one topic in class. Prerequisite: MW7320
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2.00 Credits
2 credits This course outlines the legal responsibilities and restrictions of practice for naturopathic physicians specializing in natural childbirth. Upon completion of this course students demonstrate knowledge of the following: professional ethics specific to midwifery; local and national politics; midwifery regulation in various jurisdictions; peer review procedures, quality assurance and quality improvement mechanisms; malpractice insurance; billing practices; informed consent/choice; scope and standards of practice; cultural diversity in client populations; consultation/ referral relationships; dual licensure; unlicensed/unregulated practice; regulatory systems, sanctions and disciplinary processes. Prerequisite: NM7109 Note: This course is for students in their final year of the naturopathic midwifery program.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Upon completion of this course, students are competent to do the following: provide emotional support to families grieving the loss of a pregnancy or newborn, teach self-nurturing methods that facilitate healing in the grief process, model how to heal through and be strengthened by loss, and draw on personal spiritual resources for the benefit of self and client. Students develop skills in helping couples talk through the impact of grief and loss on their relationship and the grief of infertility. Students also learn to help parents deal with bereavement pressures, grief reactions of the extended family, and societal expectations around the death of a child, a spontaneous abortion or planned termination of pregnancy. Prerequisite: PS6306
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1.00 Credits
1 credit This course covers medication use during pregnancy and intrapartum, along with substances commonly used in healthy neonates. The course emphasizes the medications that midwives may legally administer in Washington state, including indications, contraindications, and associated risks for interaction and/or adverse effects for these agents. Additionally, the course includes dosing and routes of administration along with the underlying pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Throughout, scope of practice and consultation/referral indications are incorporated into the information discussed. Prerequisites: BC6305, MW7321, admission to naturopathic midwifery program
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1.00 Credits
2.5 credits See description above. Prerequisite: MW7320
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2.00 Credits
5 credits See description preceding MW8800. Prerequisites: MW7320, MW7321
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1.00 Credits
1 credit See description above. Corequisite: MW8800
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1.00 Credits
1 credit See description preceding MW8811. Corequisite: MW8800 or MW8802. Prerequisite: MW8811
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