Learn how nurses support family healing and adaptation in the weeks after childbirth with this free online course. Build confident postpartum care skills with a practical course for nurses and students. Learn maternal and newborn assessment, pain control, perineal and C-section recovery, breastfeeding and lactation support, mental health screening for baby blues and postpartum depression, and family-centered teaching across cultures. Real cases and checklists turn theory into clinical judgment. Ready to guide families with skill and heart?! Enroll today.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201759 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Describe the regular physiologic and psychological changes that occur during the postpartum period. • Explain the nursing assessments and interventions that promote maternal recovery after birth. • Identify the warning signs and complications that require immediate postpartum nursing actions. • Discuss the role of the nurse in fostering parental attachment and psychosocial adaptation to parenthood. • Select the evidence-based practices that provide safe, individualized postpartum and newborn care. • Summarize the effectiveness of patient education in supporting family adjustment and self-care. |
| Course Code | 7770 |

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