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Understanding pelvic floor health - for nurses and midwives

This course aims to help nurses and midwives improve their knowledge and understanding of the pelvic floor health to support patients with pelvic floor dysfunction and conditions that impact the pelvic floor. 

Although the course has been designed for nurses and midwives, other health professionals are welcome to participate.

Course cost: free.

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Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • define the role and function of the pelvic floor muscles
  • list the common symptoms and presentations of pelvic floor dysfunction.

General information

  • This course is self-paced and online.
  • The expected duration is 30-60 minutes.
  • Access is unlimited for three months from registration date.
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CPD information

Jean Hailes for Women's Health education activities can be used to fulfill the continuing professional development (CPD) requirements of many registered health professions.

This course has been endorsed by the Australian Practice Nurses Association (APNA) for 1 CPD Hour and the Australian College of Midwives (ACM) for 0.5 CPD hour of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Upon completion of this activity, a certificate of completion will be emailed for your CPD records.

Assessment

  • This course is assessed using multiple choice quizzes.
  • A minimum 80% passing score is required for each quiz.

Support

Please note that your certificate of completion will be emailed to you by a member of our team within 5 business days of completing this course. For any other questions or technical support, please email [email protected].

Evi­dence and med­ical knowl­edge is con­stant­ly chang­ing. The authors have tak­en care to ensure that the infor­ma­tion on this page is accu­rate and up to date at the time it was cre­at­ed. This con­tent is intend­ed for health­care pro­fes­sion­als who should always man­age patients with­in their scope of prac­tice and work with­in local poli­cies and prac­tices. This con­tent is not intend­ed for mem­bers of the gen­er­al public.