Quality of Care

Module 1: Evidence-Based Practice for Maternal and Newborn Routine Care and Management of Complications (Standard 1)

Module 2: Effective Communication

Module 3: Healthcare Quality Management

This course is designed to introduce health care workers to the concept of healthcare quality, quality improvement model for Malawi and healthcare standard precautions. 

Module 4: Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response

This module is designed to prepare the learners to acquire knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes in maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR). It will also guide activities aimed at reducing maternal and perinatal mortality by routine identification and timely notification, collecting, analysing and interpreting data, reporting findings, make recommendations, implementing and monitoring the impact of the implemented interventions to prevent similar deaths in the future.



Module 5: Emotional Support to Women and Families

This module will take you through five main sequential sections describing how emotional support can be provided during specific period of time. It is recommended that you take the module units and sections in order as the information builds on one another. These sections include support and care throughout labor and child birth, role of a companion in supporting the woman during labour and childbirth, mental Health, death and bereavement; and gender based violence. This module is recommended to be taken in conjunction with effective communication module.



Module 6: Respectful Maternity Care

All women need access to quality antenatal care, skilled care during childbirth, care and support in the weeks after childbirth, and access to fully functioning emergency obstetric care. However, a comprehensive review of research conducted by Bowser and Hill in 2010, seven categories of disrespect and abuse in childbirth was identified and exist in medical facilities around the world including Malawi.

Module 7: Community Based Maternal and Neonatal Care

Module 8: Effective Communication between Health Care Professionals