Welcome to our Maternity Education Page.
Please find our education calendar in the link below:
Education Planner Maternity 2025
For further information please contact education.mat@cdhb.health.nz or visit the Maternity Services Education Team on Level 5, Christchurch Women's Hospital or call us on (03) 364 4730
To book any Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury maternity education session please go to www.healthlearn.ac.nz For Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury employed maternity staff, all compulsory education will be allocated by the education team and all continuing education must be approved by a manager via healthLearn.
The following planners may be useful to guide you on Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury/Midwifery Council/BFHI education requirements:
Prof Development Planner 2024 Core Midwives
Professional Development Planner 2023 Nurses in Maternity
NOTE: To download Word files, right-mouse click on the Word document link, select 'save target as' OR 'save link as' in the right-click menu, and then click the 'save' button to download the document to your computer and open it.
Adult CPR/Maternal Collapse
Resuscitation training is provided as part of either Emergency Skills or PROMPT course - see below.
Breastfeeding
Four hours breastfeeding is included in this year's Maternity Practice Skills programme.
Cultural Competency
Mauriora Associates Online Foundation Course
Mauriora Associates Website
Cultural Engagement: Applying the Treaty of Waitangi
Cannulation and Phlebtotomy
Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Cannulation Course
IV Cannualation "Tips and Tricks" video (using non-safety cannula and including use of local anaesthetic). Acknoweldgements to Dr Jonathan Guirguis.
IV Cannulation Education Resource by Dr Jonathan Guirguis
Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Treaty of Waitangi and Tikanga Maori
CALD Cultural Competency Courses
https://www.ecald.com/
Learn Online Courses
Understanding bias
Cultural competency
Diabetes in Pregnancy
Online via healthLearn.
Emergencies in Maternity Care
Emergency Skills: online via healthLearn.
PROMPT: online via healthLearn.
Newborn Life Support: online via healthLearn.
Epidural in Maternity Care
Online via healthLearn.
Family Violence
Online via healthLearn
Fetal Monitoring
OFSEP for free online course
Online via healthLearn.
Fetal Surveillance Education Requirements
GAP (Growth Assessment Programme)
GAP
GROW 2.0 Training Video
Create Birthweight Centile
Infection Prevention
Five Moments of hand hygiene online yearly refresher: via healthLearn
Covid-19 Infection Prevention: via healthLearn
Covid swabbing resources: via Learn Online
Maternity Morbidity/Pre-eclampsia/Sepsis
Online via healthLearn.
Pre-eclampsia online learning
NZAPEC 2023 Pre-eclampsia and Fetal Growth Study Day
Maternity Practice Skills
Online via healthLearn.
Mental Health
Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Aotearoa (PADA)
PADA Events
Mental Health Education and Resource Centre (MHERC) Website
Perinatal Loss
Online via healthLearn.
Perineal Care and Repair
Online via healthLearn.
Preceptor Development
Book via Ara: Mary Kensington, Head of Midwifery, Mary.Kensington@ara.ac.nz
Smoking, SUDI, Screening and More
ABC smoke cessation on healthLearn
Learn Online for courses on newborn metabolic and hearing screening; effective stop smoking conversations with pregnant women; shaken baby prevention; sudden infant death in infancy (SUDI)
Healthy Start Professional Development – early life science and behaviour change: https://www.healthystartprofessional.org.nz/en.html
STABLE
Not running in 2025.