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Understanding women's health checks - for nurses and midwives

This course aims to help nurses and midwives improve their knowledge and understanding of health checks for women and provide education about key health checks at different stages of life.

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:

  • identify health checks for women at different stages of their life
  • explain the available options for cervical screening
  • explain the important steps involved in a self-breast examination.
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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 Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA). Completion of this educational activity entitles eligible participants to claim 45 CPD minutes.

This course has been endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives (ACM). Completion of this educational activity entitles eligible participants to claim 0.5 CPD hours.

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

General information

  • This course is self-paced and online.
  • The expected duration is 45 minutes.
  • Access is unlimited for three months from registration date
  • Check out the Jean Hailes Her Health Check tool.

Assessment

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

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].

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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.