Midwifery Bridge Certificate: Category 2

Category 2: Emergency Skills for Newborn Care.

At least one course must include a hands-on component. A minimum of 15 contact hours must be from the topics below.

• Conditions affecting the Newborn
• Fetal Heart Monitoring
• Neonatal Resuscitation of the Newborn
• Newborn and Maternal Emergencies
• Sessions from past workshops which are eligible if you attended them

Any health provider course accredited for CEUs/CMEs/CNEs in these topics:

• Recognizing and responding to Newborn emergencies
• Recognizing and responding to Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn
• Recognizing and responding to preterm or low birth weight babies
• Recognizing and responding to newborn infections and metabolic disorders
• Emergency skills for the delivery and immediate care of twins
• Emergency skills for the delivery and immediate care of breeches

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:

Conditions Affecting the Newborn

• Jaundice: Friend or Foe? by Holly Scholles, MA, CPM, LDM 3 hours, $60
• Lip and Tongue Tie: Fad or Life-Long Health Issue, Gold Perinatal series Oct 13- Nov 30, 2015, Dr. Martin Kaplan, D.M.D. 60 minutes
• Newborn Care (National Certification Corporation module WB2440, 10 CEUs)
• PROM, GBS, and Newborn Procedures (3 hr)
• Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease Using Pulse Oximetry
• Newborn Hearing Screening Training Curriculum. A full course that certifies the midwife by national standards to do newborn hearing screens. 3 CEUs.

Fetal Heart Monitoring

• Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring: Introductory AWHONN FHM course ($70 online 2.8 credit hours); Intermediate AWHONN FHM course (2-day onsite course, 18 credit hours)
• Fetal Assessment In Labor, 9 hours

Neonatal Resuscitation of the Newborn

• American Academy of Pediatrics/Neonatal Resuscitation Program (AAP/NRP) Provider Course
• Integrative Resuscitation of the Newborn
• STABLE Courses Click on learner courses to find current list, ask about credits and hours
• Newborn Assessment (NetCE Course 32264, 10 credits)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) 8 hours
• Theory of Biodynamic Resuscitation of the Newborn

Newborn and Maternal Emergencies

• Mercy in Action: Global Midwifery Skills: Maternal and Newborn Survival Best Practices
• Preventing Mother-to-Child-Transmission of HIV/AIDS and Hep B&C; online, 4 hours, $119

Gold Learning Sessions

• 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.