The Faculty of Nursing at An-Najah Holds a Midwifery Course on Pregnancy and Delivery
Between August 14th and 15th, the Faculty of Nursing at An-Najah University organized an intensive training course that aimed to train and prepare third and fourth-year female students to deal with pregnancy and emergency childbirth. The course was held at the Faculty of Nursing and was administered Dr. Aidah Al-Kaissi, Dean of the Faculty of Nursing, in addition to a number of nurses and midwives at the University.
Dr. Al-Kaissi and Mrs. Rahija Awni, Coordinator of the Course, started by speaking about the general objectives of the course which included: Developing the students’ skills in dealing with cases of pregnancy and emergency childbirth in order to reduce the mortality rates among mothers and children which has increased considerably in the different private and government hospitals in the West Bank recently. The course’s other objective was to support and enhance the scientific knowledge of the students gained by the theoretical courses they take in the field of pregnancy and emergency delivery.
Dr. Al-Kaissi also stressed the necessity to hold the course on an annual and regular basis so that the students could get the latest medical updates that are derived from scientific research in the field of advanced first aid related to pregnancy and emergency delivery cases.
Mrs. Najwa Subuh started the course with a lecture in which she spoke about the importance of safety in childbirth and focused on a number of key concepts in this context such as organized work, team spirit, identifying priorities when it comes to handling emergency cases, as well as the importance of avoiding medical errors while working in delivery divisions. Furthermore, she presented a full explanation on how to deal with children who experience a stop in the work of the heart or the lungs immediately afterbirth.
Furthermore, Dr. Al-Kaissi explained in her lecture the cases of bleeding in early pregnancy and the reasons behind that such as abortion. She also explained molar pregnancy, false pregnancy (pseudocyesis) and focused on following modern techniques in dealing with bleeding in addition to using ultrasound to detect such cases.
Shorouq Qadous spoke about bleeding in the second half of pregnancy, its causes, types, how to deal with each type, as well as explaining the causes and repercussions that result from the explosion of the Uterus and how to deal with such cases.
The lecture also included many different topics related to delivery and childbirth as well as the methods to deal with difficulties in delivery and other cases that inflict serious risk on the mother and her child.
In another lecture, Mrs. Fatima Hirzallah explained an applied in front of the students the method used in case the mother’s heart or lungs stop working. She also explained Pre-eclampsia, a medical condition in which hypertension arises in pregnancy in association with significant amounts of protein in the urine, and described the complications that result from it that could significantly affect the unborn child.
Other topics included early childbirth, its causes, how to follow-up on such cases in the hospital, as well as the proper use of drugs to prevent such early childbirth from happening.
At the end of the course Dr. Al-Kaissi thanked the members of the teaching staff and the students for attending the course. She also thanked the University’s Administration for supporting the Faculty of Nursing and its various activities.
