Category 3: Specific Topics Relevant to Midwifery Care
Category 3 continuing education topics are based upon identified areas to address emergency skills and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) competencies. These continuing education credits must come from the topics listed below (up to a maximum of 20 CEUs from this Category). If a workshop with accredited CEUs is not linked but meets the topic description it would meet the requirements. Any healthcare provider course accredited for CEUs/CMEs/CNEs in these topics:- Charting for Midwives
- Cultural Competency for Healthcare Providers
- Domestic and Sexual Violence, Trauma, and Microaggression
- Ethics for Midwives
- HIPAA
- HIV/AIDS
- Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making
- Manifestations of Various Degrees of Female Genital Mutilation (Cutting) and their Potential Effects on Women’s Health, Including the Birth Process
- Medical Errors
- Methodology for Conducting Maternal Death Review and Near Miss Audits
- Peer Review Course
- Perinatal Bereavement and Counseling
- Perinatal Mood Disorders
- Pharmacology for Midwives
- Preceptor Training; Preceptor-Student Relationships
- Principles of Active Management of 3rd Stage of Labor: Including Indications for Episiotomy and Research on the Pros and Cons of Active Management vs. Physiological Management
- Principles of Research, Evidenced-Based Practice, Critical Interpretation of Professional Literature, and the Interpretation of Vital Statistics and Research Findings
- Transfer Guidelines from Home to Hospital (Home Birth Summit Research)
- Using the Microscope to Perform Simple Screening Tests
- Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: Conditions Affecting the Risks and Topics Related to Cesarean Birth and VBAC
- Misc
- Sessions from past workshops which are eligible if you attended them
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:
Charting for Midwives
- On-site course taught by NARM (2 credit hours)
- Charting Made Simple for Midwives – Lynn Arnold (on-site 3 credit hours)
Cultural Competency for Healthcare Providers
- Cultural Competency for Healthcare Providers (RN.com, 1 hour)
- Mercy in Action Cultural Competency and Respectful Maternity Care; online, 4 credit hours, $119
- Mercy In Action’s Cultural Awareness and Respect in Midwifery Education; online, 2 credit hours, $59
Domestic and Sexual Violence, Trauma, and Microaggression
- A Neurobiological Approach to Trauma Informed Care (MEAC approved for 3 hours, available on-demand at HiveCE), $80
- Domestic violence (online course required for license renewal in Florida)
- Creating the Space for Healing (MEAC approved for 4 hours, available on-demand at HiveCE), $85
Ethics for Midwives
- On-site course taught by NARM (2 credit hours)
- Gold Midwifery Online Conference: Ethical practice, 2017, 1 hr
HIPAA
- HIPAA (RN.org online course required for license renewal in Florida)
- A Heappa HIPAA Help (3 credit hours)
HIV/AIDS
- HIV/AIDS (RN.org online course required for license renewal in Florida)
Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making
Manifestations of Various Degrees of Female Genital Mutilation (Cutting) and their Potential Effects on Women’s Health, Including the Birth Process
Medical Errors
- Medical Errors (RN.org online course required for license renewal in Florida)
Methodology for Conducting Maternal Death Review and Near Miss Audits
Peer Review Course
- On-site course taught by NARM (2 credit hours)
Perinatal Bereavement and Counseling
- Gunderson Health System: RTS Bereavement Training: Perinatal Death
- Hearthside Perinatal Bereavement Care: Bereavement Webinar Series (12 hr webinar series)
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization: Evidence-based Neonatal-Perinatal Palliative Care (1.5 credits $210)
Perinatal Mood Disorders
Pharmacology for Midwives
- Pharmacology for Community Birth Midwifery (online, 7 credit hours, $199)
- Mercy in Action’s Pharmacology for Midwives; online, 8 credit hours, $239
- Vitamin K and Eye Ointment (2 hrs)
Preceptor Training; Preceptor-Student Relationships
- Association of Midwifery Educators Preceptor as Educator Courses 9 hrs
- On-site course taught by NARM (2 credit hours)
- Mercy in Action’s Navigating Ethical Student/Preceptor/Client Relationships; online, 4 credit hours, $119
- Mercy In Action’s Cultural Awareness and Respect in Midwifery Education; online, 2 credit hours, $59
Principles of Active Management of 3rd Stage of Labor: Including Indications for Episiotomy and Research on the Pros and Cons of Active Management vs. Physiological Management
Principles of Research, Evidenced-Based Practice, Critical Interpretation of Professional Literature, and the Interpretation of Vital Statistics and Research Findings
- Gold Midwifery Online Conference: Transition to evidence based models of care, 2017, 1 hr
- Evidence Based Care, 8 credit hours covering: Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making, Transfer from Home to Hospital, and Principles of Research and Interpretation of Research
- Mercy In Action’s Statistics for Midwives; online, 12 credit hours, $299
Transfer Guidelines from Home to Hospital (Home Birth Summit Research)
- Transfer Tools for Midwives, EMS, and Hospital Providers (MEAC and ACNM approved for 4 hours, available on-demand at HiveCE), $140
Using the Microscope to Perform Simple Screening Tests
Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: Conditions Affecting the Risks and Topics Related to Cesarean Birth and VBAC
- The Truth About VBAC™ for Professionals, on-line video series, 6.6 credit hours
- Labor After Cesarean in the Community Setting (ACNM approved for 6 hours, available on-demand at HiveCE), $95
Misc
- Accessibility and Ableism in Midwifery Education; Instructor: Mel Smith-Tourville, CPM
- Supporting Socioeconomic Status and First Generation College Students; Instructors: Madelaine Shernock, CPM, LM and Christian Smith, PhD Candidate
- Spinning babies with Gail Tully
- Gold Midwifery Online Conference: Healing from difficult or traumatic birth, 2017, 1 hr
- Gold Midwifery Online Conference: Placenta, the forgotten chakra, 2017, 1 hr
- Mercy in Action’s Leveraging The International Childbirth Initiative (ICI) to Improve Community Birth Outcomes; online, 2 credit hours, $59
Sessions from past workshops which are eligible if you attended them
- Dealing with Loss, Gold Perinatal series Oct 13- Nov 30, 2015, Jessica McNeil, MSN, RNC-OB
- Gold Midwifery Online Conference: Rose colored, informed choice, 1 hr
- The #1 Complication of Pregnancy: Perinatal Mood Disorders, Gold Perinatal series Oct 13- Nov 30, 2015, Birdie Gunyon Meyer, RN,MA, 75 minutes
- The role of the midwife in supporting women who experience domestic violence and abuse during pregnancy –(domestic violence) – GOLD 2016 course
- New mothers’ thoughts of infant-related harm and their relationship with postpartum OCD and parenting – (postpartum depression) – GOLD 2016 course
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.
Sessions at MANA 2018:
- Whiteness, Racism, and Birth in the US, 8 hours
- Healing Attachment Trauma for Providers, 4 hours
- How to Create a More Trauma Aware Practice, 4 hours
- Research Literacy and Community Birth Applying Evidence Informed Practice During Clinical Care, 1.5 hours
- Pregnancy and Postpartum Mood Disorders, 1.5 hours
- Impact of Domestic and Sexual Violence on Women’s Health: Implications for Midwifery Care, 1.5 hours
- Attachment Wounds for a More Connected Midwifery, 1 hour
- Trauma Informed Care as a Universal Precaution, 1.5 hours
Sessions at MANA 2017:
- Whiteness and Racism full day, 8 hours
- Whiteness and Racism, breakout, 1.5 hours
- Pharmacology, 8 hours
- Integrating Research into the midwife community, 1.5 hours
- MANA Division of Research annual research roundup, 1 hour
- Pharmacology and Midwifery Care, 1.5 hours
- Disenfranchised Grief following pregnancy loss, 1.5 hours
- VBAC: Access and Safety, 1.5 hours
- Domestic Violence, 1.5 hours
- MANA Stats: Fetal and Neonatal Mortality Research, 1 hour
- Best Practices in Charting, 1.5 minutes
- The Afterbirth Plan: postpartum disorders, 1.5 hours
Sessions at MANA 2016:
- Pharmacology for Midwives, 8 hours
- Pregnancy Loss and its Ripple Effect, 4 hours
- Home Birth Health Systems, Alignment of OOH Providers and Hospital, 1 hour
- Preceptors and Students Speak Out: MEAC clinical training survey, 1.5 hours
- Placenta: the Forgotten Chakra, 1.5 hours
- Walking the Labyrinth: Research Literacy, Evidence Informed Practice, and Shared Decision Making, 1.5 hours
- MANA Division of Research annual research roundup, 1 hour
- The Game of Rubrics: Leveling the playing field for preceptors and students, 1.5 hours
- Engendering System Integration of Home Birth through a quality narrative and guidelines for collaboration, 1.5 hours
- Mentoring Midwives – Creating safe space in education, 1.5 hours