Midwifery Bridge Certificate: Category 1
Category 1: Emergency Skills in Pregnancy, Birth, and the Immediate Postpartum
At least one course must include a hands-on component. A minimum of 15 contact hours must be from among these options/topics below:
- Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics
- Birth Emergency Skills Training
- Bleeding During Pregnancy
- Intravenous Therapy
- Maternal Complications
- Maternal and Newborn Emergencies
- Miscarriage Complications
- Post Dates Assessment of Mother and Baby
- Shoulder Dystocia
- Suturing for Perineal Tears
- Miscellaneous
- Sessions from past workshops which are eligible if you attended them
Any health provider course approved for CEUs/CMEs/CNEs in these topics:
- Recognizing and responding to complications in pregnancy
- Recognizing and responding to complications in childbirth and the immediate postpartum
- Recognizing and responding to postpartum hemorrhage
- Recognizing and responding to shoulder dystocia
CEUs for the Midwifery Bridge Certificate taught by midwifery associations or non-accredited educational programs will not count unless accredited as CEUs by a third party.
Examples of some courses that meet these requirements are listed below with hyperlinks to the course information where available:
Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics
- AAFP Family Centered Maternity Care Self-Study Package
- AAFP Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Courses – Two of the total hours may be applied to Category 2: Neonate.
Birth Emergency Skills Training
- Birth Emergency Skills Training® (BEST) HYBRID combines 21 Contact Hours ONLINE with 8 hours LIVE learning. BEST is the longest-running emergency skills course for out-of-hospital midwives, proudly educating thousands of since 2008.
- Gold Midwifery Online Conference: Rhythms in labor: critical review of Dystocia, 1 hour
Bleeding During Pregnancy
- Bleeding During Pregnancy (NetCE Course 93251, 10 hrs)
Intravenous Therapy
- Stick ’em up IV Therapy (cost varies, 5 credit hours)
- Shock & Intravenous Therapy for Midwives; online, 6 credit hours, $179
Maternal Complications
- Thyroid Disorders in the Perinatal Period by Holly Scholles, MA, CPM, LDM, $80 (4 hrs)
- Big Babies and Gestational Diabetes (3 hrs)
- Due Dates and Advanced Maternal Age (3 hrs)
- Friedman’s Curve and Failure to Progress (2 hrs)
- Anemia: Diagnosis, Implications, and Management in Pregnancy and Postpartum (MEAC approved for 2 hours, available on-demand at HiveCE), $40
- Holistic Prevention and Management of Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (MEAC approved for 3 hours, available on-demand at HiveCE), $75
- Prevention and Management of Gestational Diabetes (MEAC approved for 6 hours, available on-demand at HiveCE), $95
Maternal and Newborn Emergencies
- Mercy in Action: Midwives Responding to Disasters: Protecting Survival in Worst-Case Scenarios; online, 8 credit hours, $239
- Mercy in Action: Expect the Unexpected: Psychology of Birth Emergencies; online, 4 credit hours, $119
- Mercy in Action: Global Midwifery Skills: Maternal and Newborn Survival Best Practices; online, 4 hours Category 1: Maternal and 4 hours Category 2: Neonate, $239
Miscarriage Complications
Post Dates Assessment
Shoulder Dystocia
Suturing for Perineal Tears
- Online Suturing for Midwives (online, $149, 6 credit hours)
Miscellaneous
- Online Midwives & The First 1,000 Days, This course is packed full of vital information for the midwife to communicate to the pregnant parents in her care. (3 MEAC Approved Contact Hours)
- Hyperemesis, 3 MEAC Approved Contact Hours
Sessions from past workshops which are eligible if you attended them
- Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy and Postpartum, 60 minutes
- REACT: Early Recognition and Management of Maternal Compromise, 60 minutes
Sessions at MANA 2021:
- Click here for the Gold Learning page where you can still buy the entire conference of sessions. When you get to this page, if you mouse-over the text “credits available,” it will tell you whether the course offers CEUs for the Midwifery Bridge Certificate. If you already bought and completed sessions at the conference, your CEU certificate will list which apply to the Bridge Certificate.
