Module 04:
Promoting Respectful Maternity and Newborn Care
Welcome to the fourth module in the ERMC course. This module has been developed to further your knowledge of the consequences of disrespectful care for women during labor and birth and ways to promote ERMC. A list of resource requirements to promote ERMC is also provided, as well as an example of a case scenario of providing ERMC. Finally, this module will end with a post-course completion survey that includes reflection on equity and respect in maternity care.
Module 04:
Promoting Respectful Maternity and Newborn Care
Welcome to the fourth module in the ERMC course. This module has been developed to further your knowledge of the consequences of disrespectful care for women during labor and birth and ways to promote ERMC. A list of resource requirements to promote ERMC is also provided, as well as an example of a case scenario of providing ERMC. Finally, this module will end with a post-course completion survey that includes reflection on equity and respect in maternity care.
Main Resource Requirements for RMC
4. Infrastructure
Rooming-in to facilitate women and their babies to remain together
Clean, appropriately illuminated, well-ventilated labor, childbirth, and neonatal areas that allow for privacy and are adequately equipped and maintained
Continuous energy supply in the labor, childbirth, and neonatal areas.
Clean and accessible bathrooms for use by women in labor, safe drinking water, and a hand hygiene station, with soap or alcohol- based hand rubs
Curtains, screens, partitions, and sufficient bed capacity
Facilities for labor companions, including physical private space for the woman and her companion
On-site pharmacy and a medicine and supplies stock management system that is managed by a trained pharmacist or dispenser