UONP020 Midwifery 1

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/30/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Mgr. Daniela Nedvědová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Yvetta Vrublová, Ph.D.
Institute of Paramedical Health Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Slováček Hagenová
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(B) && FORMA(P)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is a profiling vocational theoretical and practical course which includes comprehensive knowledge of care of women in all age categories, with a focus on the physiology of pregnancy and care of women in prenatal counselling and prenatal classes.
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes: students know the basic aspects of care of women of child-bearing period and of pregnant women.
Professional Knowledge: Students demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts in obstetrics.
Professional Skills: Students can plan and perform care of a woman with a physiological pregnancy.
General Qualification: Students are familiar with prenatal care of pregnant women.
Competences: Students are able to make informed planing of prenatal care of women with a physiological pregnancy
Syllabus
  • 1. Planned parenthood, fertilization, implantation, fetal development in the uterus, placenta, amniotic fluid containers, amniotic fluid - development, morphology, function.
  • 2. Preparing women for pregnancy.
  • 3. Pregnancy changes to the female body, regimen of pregnant women
  • 4. Pregnancy counselling - course of normal pregnancy, proper dating, individual examinations during pregnancy, medical history in obstetrics as part of the medical records,
  • 5. Obstetric examination methods - fundamentals of ultrasound diagnostics in pregnancy, physical obstetric examination at different stages of pregnancy and childbirth.
  • 6. biochemical and microbiological examinations in obstetrics
  • 7. Obstetric examination methods - prenatal diagnosis of congenital defects - non-invasive and invasive methods
  • 8. Obstetric examination methods - cardiotocography, fetal pulse oximetry, ST analysis, genetic counselling and clinical genetics
  • 9. Obstetric investigation - situs, positio, presentatio, habitus, diagnostics of the fetal position in the uterus, obstetric findings.
  • 10. Admission of women in labour, obstetric documentation, medical history, antenatal preparation, postpartum care.
Literature
    required literature
  • PROCHÁZKA MARTIN, PILKA RADOVAN. Porodnictví pro studenty všeobecného lékařství a porodní asistence. Olomouc: AED-Olomouc s.r.o., 2016.
  • HÁJEK,Z.,ČECH,E., MARŠÁL, K. Porodnictví. Praha: Grada 2014, s. 576, ISBN 978-80-247-4529-9.
  • LEIFER, G. Úvod do porodnického a pediatrického ošetřovatelství. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2004. ISBN 80-247-0668-7. info
  • FAIT, T., DVOŘÁK,V., SKŘIVÁNEK, A. Almanach ambulantní gynekologie. Praha: Maxforf, 2009, ISBN 978-80-7345-191-2.
  • HOŘEJŠÍ, J. Dětská gynekologie. Praha: Mladá fronta a.s., 2017, ISBN 978-80-204-4027-3.
  • KŘEPELKA, P. Poruchy menstruačního cyklu. Praha: Mladá fronta a.s., 2015, ISBN 978-80-204-3520-0.
  • PILKA, R. Gynekologie. Praha: Maxdorf. 2017, ISBN 978-80-7345-530-9
    recommended literature
  • EVANSOVÁ, N. Těhotenství a porod od A do Z: přehledná encyklopedie. Praha: Pragma, 1997. 343 s. ISBN 80-7205- 510-0.
  • FENWICKOVÁ, E. Zdravé těhotenství. 1. vyd. Praha: Ikar, 1998. 72 s. ISBN 80-7202-105-2.
  • MACKŮ, F., MACKŮ, J. Průvodce těhotenstvím a porodem. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 1998. 327 s. ISBN 80-7169-589-0.
Assessment methods
Fulfilment of 80% instruction attendance (students who cannot attend compulsory instruction for serious reasons will be assigned an alternative way of fulfilling their study requirements) and passing a written test 80%.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2019, Accreditation summer, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2025, recent)
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