Skills covered include identification of risk factors, assessing pelvic capacity, diagnosing presentation and position of the baby, assessing descent of the fetal head, and recognizing obstructed labour. An explanation of puerperal sepsis is followed by sessions dealing with underlying risk factors, identification and differentiation from other conditions, prevention, and management. A session on HIV and AIDS, related to childbearing women, is also included. Skills covered include identification of risk factors, signs and symptoms, taking a midstream specimen of urine, taking a high vaginal swab, and maintaining vulval hygiene. An introduction to pre-eclampsia and eclampsia includes basic information about hypertension, proteinuria, and oedema, and explains the stages of an eclamptic fit.
Subsequent sessions deal with risk factors and their identification, prevention, and management.
Teaching aids included in the manual illustrate the clinical features of eclampsia, epilepsy, cerebral malaria, meningitis, subarachnoid haemorrhage, cerebral tumour, uraemia, and septicaemia. Skills covered include identification of risk factors, differential diagnosis, midwifery and nursing observations, taking of blood samples, intravenous infusions, insertion of a catheter, and care and observation during an eclamptic fit. 10.50 Order no. 1930058 A series of eleven teaching modules intended for use in a basic nursing education course on HIV-related illness. Addressed to course instructors, the manual covers the basic HIV-related knowledge and skills which nurses need in order to effectively and safely practice their profession.