Midwifery undergraduate education is an education that requires both theoretical knowledge and skills. Students need to acquire the care practices that they will perform on patients in the clinics, primarily in the laboratory environment. Therefore, the equipment of skills laboratories and the skills training of students in the laboratory environment are very important.
The Midwifery Practices Laboratory of our university is organized with models and laboratory materials suitable for the skills that students need to acquire.
The Medical Skills Laboratory is used jointly with the Nursing Department for practices that are similar to nursing practices.
In the Midwifery Practices Laboratory, leopold maneuvers in pregnant women, vaginal (speculum) and bimanual examination, listening to CDS with hand doppler, normal labor simulation, difficult labor simulation, dilatation-effacement examination, episiotomy repair, sterile material and surgical set preparation, women's health practices (KKMM, KKVM, pap-smear, etc.), reproductive health-family planning.), reproductive health-family planning practices (IUD, condom, etc.) and physical examination of the newborn.
Laboratory applications are carried out by working one-to-one with each student in accordance with the content of vocational courses, accompanied by expert lecturers, so that students gain the necessary skills before starting clinical practice.
Midwifery Practice Laboratory Equipment
This laboratory has the necessary hardware and equipment for the specified applications to be carried out in accordance with the curriculum of Üsküdar University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Midwifery (see Inventory).
The "Enhanced Mother-Newborn Birth Simulator" with advanced technological features, which was recently added to the laboratory of the Department of Midwifery, simulates all normal and abnormal situations that can be encountered in women in real life during pregnancy, birth and postpartum period in the laboratory environment through the scenarios created, thus allowing students to observe the situations they may encounter in real life on the model and perform the necessary midwifery interventions.
The birth simulator with advanced technological features allows students to examine the fetal position (leopold maneuvers) as well as the vital signs of the pregnant woman on the model with near-human characteristics and thus determine the position and size of single or twin babies in the womb.
In addition to assessing the suitability of the pelvic structure for delivery by vaginal examination, the simulation model also provides the opportunity to perform normal vaginal delivery, breech delivery, shoulder dystocia, placenta delivery, episiotomy incision and repair, postpartum uterine massage, and intervention in cord problems.
With the new simulation model, students will be able to monitor the progress and rotations of the fetus in the birth canal, as well as fetal distress conditions, changes in maternal life functions, and develop the ability to intervene in all abnormal conditions, including maternal resuscitation.
The infant simulation model will enable students to learn all neonatal care practices including neonatal resuscitation in the laboratory environment.
