Direct Entry Supplemental

MIDW 4001 : BASIC HEALTH SKILLS (3 undergrad credits):

This course is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to learn or reinforce basic health skills in a classroom/laboratory setting. Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to demonstrate 1) basic competence, 2) concern for human and environmental safety and 3) sensitivity and respect for patients. Skills covered in this course include an introduction to: assessment of the patient -- physical and psychosocial; medical ethics; principles of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention as well as crisis intervention; documentation and standard medical terminology; quality assurance, risk management and health care policy; understanding and obtaining basic laboratory and diagnostic tests, cultures and specimens; intervention skills such as bed-making, bed bath, transferring to chair/wheelchair/stretcher, feeding techniques; emergency and life-support care; as well as a variety of other basic health skills used in practicing midwifery.