Multidisciplinary Skills and Drills Training
Course
COURSE INTRODUCTION
The Multidisciplinary Skills and Drills course is evidence based training package that teaches midwives and other healthcare professionals how to respond to obstetric emergencies. The course has been designed to improve clinical outcomes and reduce patient safety incidents.
WHO IS IT FOR?
This course aims to boost the confidence of participants in dealing with obstetric emergencies and to provide clinicians with the skills to deal with obstetric complications well before they are faced with an emergency on their maternity units like Labour ward.
Our Multidisciplinary Skills and Drills courses are delivered by qualified individuals who are still practicing in midwifery Units. They have the current evidence based knowledge and skills to give high quality training.
Participants on the course learn how to manage obstetric emergencies in multiprofessional teams on their own labour ward or practice units using their own emergency equipment and procedures and systems, as well as important emergency skills.
This course also refreshes knowledge and skills in dealing with obstetric emergencies.
This course gives participants opportunity to engage with our midwifery and anaesthetic colleagues.
Annual participation in Skills and Drills course is mandatory for obstetric and midwifery staff.
Multidisciplinary Skills and Drills training is multiprofessional, with all members of the maternity team being trained in emergency techniques. Aspects of team working, including training for communication in an emergency, are included throughout the course.
CERTIFICATION
Participants are assessed throughout the day by the trainers. A certificate is provided at the end of the training.
TOP TIPS
- This course is popular because of its multidisciplinary nature—it is designed for all grades of obstetricians, midwives, and anaesthetists. Book the course and your study leave early on.
- Read the Skills and Drills course manual before attending the course, as the key messages are reinforced throughout the course.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST
Fee: £135.00
HOW IS IT STRUCTURED?
Participants are given a Skills and Drills training course manual one week before attending the course. The recently updated manual covers all obstetric emergencies and includes up to date evidence based management recommendations.
The day is divided into morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session is lecture based and covers a variety of topics such as basic life support and maternal collapse, maternal cardiac arrest and advanced life support, intrapartum fetal monitoring (CTG), pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, maternal sepsis, major obstetric haemorrhage, breech delivery, shoulder dystocia, and cord prolapse.
In the afternoon session delegates are put into multiprofessional teams and practise obstetric emergency “drills”. Drills include management of eclampsia, major obstetric haemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, breech delivery, cord prolapse, and maternal cardiac arrest.