The branch was established with the founding of the college in 2008. This branch specialized in teaching maternal and newborn health and nutrition in the third academic stage in a single semester system where the student learns about: the various stages of fetal growth and development, nursing care for women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, complications, Critical cases and various surgical cases during the period of pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, in addition to caring for the newborn. also teaches the nutrition subject that deals with a healthy diet for women, which includes cases of pregnancy and breastfeeding and the subsequent therapeutic nutrition. The branch also specialized in teaching the subject of growth and development and Pediatrics nursing with an one semester system, where students learn about the characteristics of healthy growth and development. the student learns how to provide nursing care to the hospitalized children , as well as students' interest in the preventive methods that must be followed to maintain children's health. These subjects are taught in two sections, theoretical and at a rate of (3) hours per week, and practical and clinical at a rate of (8) hours per week in the college laboratories and hospitals located in Thi Qar Governorate.

(Word of the head of the branch )
( Say: Are those who know equal to those who do not know )
Praise be to God who has given us Science and knowledge and made knowledge a
.beacon that illuminates our path
.May God bless the master of Science, Muhammad, and his family
Now then, the message we carry is a trust and must be preserved and delivered to our dear students in order to create a new generation that is aware, educated, and keen to serve others, especially in the field of nursing, which is considered a humanitarian service with all its meanings and with the most modern advanced scientific methods,
.especially in the field of maternal and newborn nursing and pediatric nursing
So we will live up to the expectations of our professors, dear students, our country, and
.our people. Success comes from God
Assistant Professor Dr. Enas Abdul Karim Jabbar Saleh
Head of the Maternal and Newborn Health Branch

Assistant Professor Dr. Enas Abdul Karim Jabbar Saleh
Head of the Maternal and Newborn Health Branch

Weekly lectures schedule for the academic year 2023/ 2024

Teaching students skills related to vital signs, heart and lung sounds, cardiac
.resuscitation, and measuring circumference and head circumference in nursing
: Skills ☑️
Viral signs -
Heart sounds -
Voices -
CPR -
Measure chest and head circumference -
: Equipments in the laboratory ☑️
Number of dolls (8) with incubator device -
Teaches third stage ☑️

Teaching students various skills in blood testing, knowledge of the stages of
pregnancy, and the pattern of knowing the stage of childbirth in obstetrics and
.gynecology nursing
:Skills ☑️
Knowing the stages of childbirth -
Blood test -
The stage of pregnancy and the condition of the child -
Number of laboratory devices ☑️
Number of dolls (5) -
simulation doll (2) -
Teaches third year students ☑️

Teaching students various skills to hear the sounds of the heart, lungs, and abdomen, knowing
the placement of the urinary catheter, and giving medications and fluids after examining
and knowing the skin for students in taking information about the dolls before going to
.the hospital and applying it to a living person
: Skills ☑️
Knowledge of heart, lung and abdominal sounds -
Make a transition with a gateway -
Providing medicines and urgent aid -
Skin examination -
The doll can be programmed about a specific disease and students can take
.information from it for the purpose of diagnosing the disease
devices in the Lab / sensitive doll
.Teaches third year students -

The College of Nursing holds an educational symposium entitled The side effects of misuse of contraceptives ▪
A workshop entitled strategies for early detection of breast cancer ▪
Scientific symposium on sickle cell anemia ▪
A scientific lecture on the reasons for the birth of low-weight babies ▪
A scientific lecture on endometriosis ▪
An electronic workshop entitled (SEQWA killer of the children (SEQWA poisoning) ▪
Electronic workshop ((Neglect and persecution behaviors towards children)) ▪
A workshop on the curriculum system ▪

: For inquiries, contact us on the following ⌂
MATERNAL_CHILD@UTQ.EDU.IQ✅
07828116722 ✅
your Inquiries will be answered within the official working times⌂