Suturing

SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES for MDWF 2090

At the completion of this course, the students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills in the following areas:

• Explain the pelvic muscular anatomy and how it relates to clinical care through the childbearing childbirth and repair

• Evaluate pelvic floor disorders and choose treatment plan

• Identify and recommend treatment for an inclusion cyst

• Appraise and implement techniques to prevent tears in childbirth

• Evaluate appropriate need for an episiotomy

• Compare and contrast anatomical impacts from a medial and medio-lateral episiotomy

• Describe procedural tools and steps for correct episiotomy technique to perform an episiotomy

• Compile a ‘suture kit’ that identifies appropriate suturing materials and equipment

• Identify when a client is stable enough to begin repair

• Assess characteristics to properly identify/classify various wounds

• Develop a repair plans that are clinically appropriate for the different lacerations (including transfer or not suturing)

• Demonstrate the set up and maintaining of sterile and clean fields

• Demonstrate tying knots using one handed, two handed and instrument techniques

• Demonstrate anchor, interrupted, continuous, locked mattress, subcutaneous/running mattress, and figure 8 stitches

• Select and administer an appropriate anesthetic agent

• Explain technique to tie off a bleeding vessel

• Perform first, second, skin tag, labial tear repairs

• Analyze principles of wound healing and be able to distinguish between physiologic healing and pathologic repair breakdown or infection

• Recognize third- and fourth-degree tears and implement care protocol.

• Recognize cervical tears and implement care protocol.

• Enact informed consent and

• Demonstrate documentation of a repair