Training Manuals
In this section you can find information on training manuals
Family Centered Maternity Care (FCMC) Course
This course is based on modern recommendations of effective maternity care. It presents latest evidence-based data (source: the Cochrane Library) and relevant WHO materials.The objective of the course is to improve the health and well-being of mothers and babies by preparing health providers to implement family-centered maternity care practices in their hospitals.
The course contains theoretical and practical sessions on the following issues: introduction to FCMC, alternative positions for labor and birth, support during labor, non-pharmacologic pain relief, active management of the third stage of labor. Specific attentions is paid on evidence-based labor and birth practices. Special sessions are focused on such topics as: «Partograph», «Newborn care», «Postpartum care of the mother», «Childbirth education», «Family counseling». Infection control issues and FCMC with practical examples are of great importance in the course. The sessions on evaluation of FCMC implementation, strategies for change, situation analysis, action plan are singled out in the course. Much attention in the course is paid on clinical week. The course starts and ends with the obligatory assessment and testing the knowledge of participants.
Antenatal Care Course
The goals of the training are - to bring antenatal care into the framework of evedence-based decision-making; and to prepare antenatal care providers to change antenatal care practice so that it reflects the needs of women and their families.The course is aimed to enhance health professional’s understanding and knowledge of skills in maternity care and modern principles and practices of sound care in pregnancy, childbirth education, healthy lifestyle. The course is designed to encourage health professionals and policy-makers to enter into health care issues. This deeper knowledge and understanding will allow health providers to improve the standard and quality of care they provide.
The content of the course includes the issues on antenatal care, regarding the role and responsibilities of the health care provider during pregnancy, on increasing awareness of the psychological, biological, cultural and social aspects, affecting the antenatal period. Emphasized are issues of unwarranted intervention at the times of pregnancy care, the urgency of study research data and of a critical attitude to traditional observation and treatment methods. The course highlights the need for improvement clinical skills at caring for high-risk group during labor. Also distinguished are issues of improving managerial standards (a teamwork approach when caring for pregnancies; registering complicated cases, etc.).The course also focuses on key aspects of a healthy lifestyle of importance for the health of a pregnant woman and the fetus (prescription of folic acid, giving up smoking and alcohol consumption, and also types of physical exercises).
The Family Planning Course for Primary Health Care Providers
The Family Planning Training for Primary Health Care Providers is intended to train Russian health providers in international evidence-based practices and standards for family planning services, with an emphasis on counseling.
This course is designed for training health care providers to strengthen their knowledge and counseling skills in order to provide quality family planning services, integrating family planning into the broader spectrum of reproductive health care services. Participants can include obstetrician/gynecologists, nurses, midwives, family medicine doctors, general practitioners, feldschers and pediatricians who provide prenatal, delivery, postpartum, breastfeeding, postabortion, well-baby, adolscent and HIV/AIDS care.
Breastfeeding Counseling. Essential Newborn Care and Breastfeeding Course
These are training courses, developed by WHO and UNICEF with additions of some materials, developed by the WIN/MCHI Project. (For example, how to become a “Baby Friendly Hospital”)
The course contains sessions on importance of breastfeeding, local breastfeeding situation. The course emphasizes not only theoretical but also practical aspects of breastfeeding. Much attention is paid on breastfeeding practice together with assessing breastfeeding and observing breastfeeding. Important place in the course is taken by the sessions on creating self-confidence and support. The participants are trained on recording breastfeeding, examining breasts, breast milk decanting techniques, counseling practice. Also considered are problems of breastfeeding (“not enough milk”, “crying”, breast rejection, feeding of low-weight and sick infants, issues of increase lactation and relactation). The special place is taken by 10 steps of effective breastfeeding and implementation of “Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative”.
