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Chemical reaction equilibria: Review of thermodynamics function. Fugacity and Activity. Free Energy. Partial and integral molar thermodynamics functions. Gibbs-Duhem equations. Ellingham's diagrams for metal-oxide, metal-chloride and metal-sulphide systems. Application of Ellingham diagrams in metal extraction and heat treatment. Assessment of the application of carbon, silicon, hydrogen and other reductants in metallic production. Theory of solutions: ideal, actual and dilute solutions. Deviations from ideal behaviour. Raoult's and Henry's laws. Activity in multi-component system. Phase equilibria: Equilibria of two-component systems. Free energy composition diagrams; Construction of phase diagrams. Reactions between different phases i.e., slag/metal or slag/metal/gas. Pre-requisite: GET 206.

Maternal and child health from conception to delivery and post-delivery. The nursing care of mothers, the newborn, and the family. Drugs used in midwifery practice. Pain management in midwifery practice. Anatomy and physiology of the male and female reproductive organs. Foetal development. Review of history of midwifery in Nigeria and worldwide. Ethics and legal issues in midwifery practice. Theories applied to midwifery practice. Basic concepts of midwifery practice. Standard nursing language and nursing process. Ethico-Legal aspect of HIV/AIDs. Quality of care in midwifery practice.

Concept of community cultural practices. Maternal and child health nursing practice in community settings. Review of the reproductive system in relation to the practice of normal midwifery. The health of the family and the normal needs of the mother, father, foetus and other siblings in the family context. Management of normal pregnancy, labour, puerperium and the care of the baby. Prenatal care/ focused antenatal care. Normal labour. Stages of labour. Normal puerperium. The care of the newborn and newborn environment. Infant nutrition. Discharge, and follow-up. Family care studies as necessary. Domiciliary Midwifery Practice. Role of the nurse. Immunisations - Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI)/ National Programme on Immunisation (NPI). Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT). Physical assessment. Nursing diagnosis. The use of Standing Order and implementation of nursing interventions. Family planning and post-natal exercises. Growth and development of the child. Health education. Growth monitoring. Family planning and infertility. Data collection and management information system in family planning. Record keeping in community practice.

Complications associated with pregnancy, labour, postpartum and the neonatal life. Roles and responsibilities of nurses and midwives in prevention and management of obstetrics emergencies (antepartum haemorrhage, obstructed labour, postpartum haemorrhage, eclampsia and many others). Socio-cultural events that contribute significantly to causes of pregnancy complications and obstetrical emergencies. Risk factors/ conditions that complicate pregnancy and labour. Management of risk factors/ conditions. Management of medical conditions and infections that complicate pregnancy. Malposition and malpresentations and their management. Abnormal pregnancy. Abnormal labour. Obstetrics emergencies. Abnormal conditions of the new born. Youth friendly services. Teenage pregnancy and complications.

Students are posted to clinical and community sites where maternal and child health services are provided. Students’ activities include, provision of normal midwifery services. Antenatal booking and mothers’ comprehensive assessment. Palpation. Weighing. Urine testing. Mothers’ education. Home visits in domiciliary midwifery (Field work – 6 weeks/ Health care institutions’ practice and community midwifery services.

The students are posted to the community health facilities to work under supervision of trained staff for the conduct and provision of community midwifery services. Activities include participation in all the clinic services. Provision of antenatal care. Routine care. Monitoring of mothers in labour. Health education. Counselling. Home visits and follow ups. Child welfare clinics. Immunisations and practice proper recording and reporting.

Student activities in the clinical experience - discovering, developing and refining necessary competencies and skills related to maternal and child health care. Completion of 8hrs per week and a period of 6 weeks in the clinical settings where maternal and child health services are being rendered. Conduct of normal midwifery. Rotation through family planning clinic, antenatal clinic, labour ward, and postnatal wards in primary and tertiary institutions. Each student to conduct 20 - 30 antenatal palpations, 10 vaginal examinations, 10 - 25 normal Midwifery deliveries, care for 5 - 30 women during normal puerperium, and perform minimum of five Episiotomies. In the family planning Unit, each student must insert 5 -10 IUCD and give oral contraceptives to at least 10 women. The course lecturer and the clinical instructors conduct on the site supervision of the students.

Maternal and child health (MCH). Concept of family health. Family structures and patterns. Components and objectives of family health. Factors influencing family health status, objectives and components of MCH services. Integration of MCH and family health services for rural and urban communities. Monitoring and evaluation of family health services, the common causes of morbidity and mortality among women and children in different age groups in developing countries (malaria in pregnancy, abortion harmful traditional practices). The role of traditional birth attendants (TBAS), roles of international health agencies in MCH development. School health programme, prenatal and safe motherhood, natural immunisation programme. Reproductive health education, sexual and reproductive rights, important conferences in reproductive health, adolescent reproductive health, critical appraisal of contraceptive methods, epidemiology and prevention of STIs, HIV and reproductive tract cancers, HPV immunisation programme.

Functions of complex variable and the properties and consequences of analyticity: techniques of analytical continuation and applications; calculus of residues; Complex integration; 'Systematic' methods of obtaining 'exact' solutions of O.D.E.; in closed forms; Local and global analysis of initial and boundary values problems; Applications will include solutions of Eigenvalues of Schroedinger type equations; the classical Anharmonic oscillator; Introduction to partial differential equation methods of characteristics for solving first order p.d.e; transform methods and application to the solution of initial and boundary value problems

Real-valued functions of a real variable. Review of differentiation and integration and their applications. Mean value theorem. Taylor series. Real-valued functions of two and three variables. Partial derivatives chain rule, extrema, lagrangian multipliers. Increments, differentials and linear approximations. Evaluation of line, integrals. Multiple integrals.