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Midwifery (Qualifying for the Health Profession of Midwife)

Bachelor Degree
L/SNT1
In presence
Planned
License to practice
  • Slovenia

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What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?

The Bachelor's Degree in Midwifery aims to train midwives, able to carry out with professional autonomy activities aimed to the prevention, care and protection of individual and collective health, women and families.

To this end, the course identifies the specific training paths of the midwife profession.

The achievement of professional skills is obtained through theoretical and practical training.

Particular importance is given to the practical and clinical training activity, through the supervision and guidance of high-level professional tutors.

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What do you learn?

Graduates in Midwifery will acquire the skills of the professional profile: to Assist and advise women during pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium; Conduct and complete eutocic births and provide assistance to the newborn; Participate in health and sexual education interventions both within the family and in the community; Participate in psycho-prophylactic preparation for childbirth; Participate in preparation and assistance for gynecological interventions; Participate in the prevention and assessment of tumors of the female genital sphere.

Participate in assistance programs for the mother and newborn; Participate in health and sexual education interventions both within the family and in the community; Manage, as members of the health team, in compliance with professional ethics, care interventions within their competence; Identify potentially pathological situations that require medical intervention and practice, where necessary, the related measures of particular emergency; Carry out their activity in health facilities.

The training path provides adequate preparation in basic disciplines, such as to allow them both the best understanding of the processes to which their preventive and therapeutic intervention is aimed, and maximum integration with other professions.

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What can you do with it?

Graduates in Midwifery are healthcare professionals responsible for:

  • Management of maternal and neonatal physiology;
  • Ability to diagnose potentially pathological situations concerning pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium and the consequent ability to collaborate with the gynecologist specialist;
  • Ability to undertake measures and provisions in the event of an emergency, while waiting for medical intervention and/or transfer to a suitable facility (STAM: Assisted Maternal Transport-STEN: Neonatal Emergency Transport);
  • Conducts and completes eutocic births with their own responsibility and provides assistance to the newborn;
  • Management of health and sexual education interventions both within the family and the community;
  • psychoprophylactic preparation for childbirth;
  • preparation and assistance for gynecological interventions;
  • prevention and assessment of tumors of the female genital sphere;
  • maternal and neonatal assistance programs.
Skills: Private Practice Area, Public and Private Health Companies (delivery room, operating room, hospital wards, gynecological clinics, pregnancy and full-term pregnancy clinics, prenatal diagnosis clinic, activities at Family Counseling Centers).

Outcomes: Access Master's Degree; Professional activity in public or private health facilities, as an employee or freelancer.