ID:
504136
Duration (hours):
30
CFU:
2
SSD:
SCIENZE INFERMIERISTICHE OSTETRICO-GINECOLOGICHE
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (02/03/2026 - 30/06/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The student at the end of the course should have acquired kwnoledge of the historical excursus that led to the current framing midwife role and function and must know the main laws regarding the midwifery profession. At the end of the course, the student will have a clear understanding of the past and current healthcare panorama.
During the course, basic notions on clinical risk management will be transmitted.
During the course, basic notions on clinical risk management will be transmitted.
Course Prerequisites
To pass the first semester exams.
Italian language knowledge.
Italian language knowledge.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons with the support of slides sent to students at the end of each lesson, self-assessment test of the learning degree, discussion groups and brainstorming.
Assessment Methods
Oral exam.
Texts
E. Rosemary Buckley, Quality in obstetric care -– Italian Edition by Miriam Guana – McGraw-Hill Publisher
Guana M., et al., The midwifery discipline: theory, practice and organization of the profession, McGraw Hill, Milan 2011.
Daniele Rodriguez, 2010, midwife profession. Aspects of forensic medicine and liability, Eleda Edizioni
Guideline 20 Physiological pregnancy, National system for guidelines of the Higher Institute of Health (SNLG-ISS), November 2011.
SNLG-ISS Guidelines No. 22 Caesarean section: an appropriate and informed choice, National system for guidelines of the Higher Institute of Health (SNLG-ISS), January 2012.
ISS-SNLG Guideline Postpartum haemorrhage: how to prevent it, how to cure it, 2016
Guidelines for the definition and organization of autonomous assistance by midwives to low obstetric risk pregnancies (BRO) - Ministry of Health General Directorate of Health Planning Directorate General of Health Prevention National Birth Path Committee, year 2017.
Agenas Clinical-organizational guidelines for the prevention of pregnancy-related complications
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Clinical guideline “Antenatal care for uncomplicated pregnancies” NICE 2008, 2017 update.
World Health Organization: WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience. WHO, Geneva 2016.
Lecture notes. Regulations and references indicated during the lessons. Material made available by the teacher.
Guana M., et al., The midwifery discipline: theory, practice and organization of the profession, McGraw Hill, Milan 2011.
Daniele Rodriguez, 2010, midwife profession. Aspects of forensic medicine and liability, Eleda Edizioni
Guideline 20 Physiological pregnancy, National system for guidelines of the Higher Institute of Health (SNLG-ISS), November 2011.
SNLG-ISS Guidelines No. 22 Caesarean section: an appropriate and informed choice, National system for guidelines of the Higher Institute of Health (SNLG-ISS), January 2012.
ISS-SNLG Guideline Postpartum haemorrhage: how to prevent it, how to cure it, 2016
Guidelines for the definition and organization of autonomous assistance by midwives to low obstetric risk pregnancies (BRO) - Ministry of Health General Directorate of Health Planning Directorate General of Health Prevention National Birth Path Committee, year 2017.
Agenas Clinical-organizational guidelines for the prevention of pregnancy-related complications
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Clinical guideline “Antenatal care for uncomplicated pregnancies” NICE 2008, 2017 update.
World Health Organization: WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience. WHO, Geneva 2016.
Lecture notes. Regulations and references indicated during the lessons. Material made available by the teacher.
Contents
Healthcare organization prior to 1978
-Health reforms
Legal status of health personnel
-Professional liability
-The concept of profession
-Code of ethics
-The sources of law
-Legislative process of midwifery training
- Legislative process of the exercise of the midwife
-Informed consent
-Professional secret
-Conscientious objection (L. 40/2004 – L. 194/78)
- State Agreement - Regions 2010
-The health legislation in force with particular reference to the mother-child area.
-The organizational environment and care context of the midwife: Hub and Spoke model hospital area.
-DM 70/2015 Regulation defining the qualitative, structural, technological and quantitative standards of hospital care: neonatology network and birth points.
-Perinatal care organizational network models: Maternal Assisted Transport Service (STAM)- neonatal emergency transport service (STEN).
-Maternal and child health: indicators (structure, process, outcome).
- Transversal integrative tools of clinical governance: guidelines, procedures, protocols.
- Legal and responsibility profiles of the midwifery profession in relation to the functions in the organization: Law 8 March 2017, n. 24.
-The basic skills of the midwife / or from the professional profile to Legislative Decree 206/2007 and its amendment (Legislative Decree 15/2016).
- The autonomy and collaboration of the midwife (professionals and health workers who collaborate with the midwife).
-The civil, penal, administrative and deontological liability of the midwifery profession.
-The Certificate of Assistance in Childbirth (CedAP): national epidemiological tool.
-Health reforms
Legal status of health personnel
-Professional liability
-The concept of profession
-Code of ethics
-The sources of law
-Legislative process of midwifery training
- Legislative process of the exercise of the midwife
-Informed consent
-Professional secret
-Conscientious objection (L. 40/2004 – L. 194/78)
- State Agreement - Regions 2010
-The health legislation in force with particular reference to the mother-child area.
-The organizational environment and care context of the midwife: Hub and Spoke model hospital area.
-DM 70/2015 Regulation defining the qualitative, structural, technological and quantitative standards of hospital care: neonatology network and birth points.
-Perinatal care organizational network models: Maternal Assisted Transport Service (STAM)- neonatal emergency transport service (STEN).
-Maternal and child health: indicators (structure, process, outcome).
- Transversal integrative tools of clinical governance: guidelines, procedures, protocols.
- Legal and responsibility profiles of the midwifery profession in relation to the functions in the organization: Law 8 March 2017, n. 24.
-The basic skills of the midwife / or from the professional profile to Legislative Decree 206/2007 and its amendment (Legislative Decree 15/2016).
- The autonomy and collaboration of the midwife (professionals and health workers who collaborate with the midwife).
-The civil, penal, administrative and deontological liability of the midwifery profession.
-The Certificate of Assistance in Childbirth (CedAP): national epidemiological tool.
Course Language
Italian
Degrees
Degrees
MIDWIFERY
Bachelor’s Degree
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