2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HECS3259 Becoming a Midwife

40 creditsClass Size: 60

Module manager: Angela Hewett
Email: A.Hewett@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Jan to 30 Sep View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Pre-requisites

HECS3258

Preparing for Midwifery Practice

Module replaces

HECS 3162, HECS 3163 and 3164 by 2014-5

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

In this module students will prepare to become midwives, the focus is on midwifery clinical practice and service evaluation and development.

Objectives

This is the final theory and practice module in the programme. The balance between the two parts has shifted markedly towards practice so students can hone their clinical skills, develop confidence and prepare for qualification and registration. Through seminars and tutorials students will apply critical thought to how maternity services are delivered, their quality, the views of service users and wider critiques of public health policy and practices. In the clinical areas students will, under more indirect supervision, work in partnership with women and other members of the multi-professional team in the provision of care. An emphasis will be on case loading. This will develop their abilities as leaders and managers to prepare them for practice.

Learning outcomes
At the end of the module students will be able to:

1. Critically review current and future context of public health and maternity services.

2. Critically explore decision making processes and how they may influence health, health provision and services.

3. Analytically review partnership working, professional and autonomous practice.

4. Critically evaluate learning and assessment in a practice environment.

5. Demonstrate skills to ensure life-long learning, personal and professional development.

6. Analytically review programmes of parenting education and practice initiatives.

7. Demonstrate leadership and management skills in decision making and service delivery.

8. Critically review alternative practices/therapies integrated into healthcare and maternity services.

9. Critically apply evidence based practice.

10. Meet selected performance and skills outcomes in the level 3 Common Assessment Document.

Skills outcomes
Midwifery care in all environments under indirect supervision, including caring for a small case load of women in the community environment.

Syllabus

Service users
Review the philosophy of partnership working / woman centred care
Analyse parenting education provision
The role and responsibilities of the midwife when service users want care normally out with the sphere of practice of the midwife eg. complementary and alternate therapies
Personal growth knowledge and skills
Reflection of personal learning needs and ongoing concept of lifelong learning
Supporting learning and assessment in practice and creating a positive learning environment
Giving and receiving feedback including self assessment on academic and professional performance
Preparing for employment
Professional adaption including curricula vitae development, interview techniques, professional requirements (Registrant/PREP/portfolio)
Knowledge and legal frameworks relating to complementary and alternate therapies used by women during childbirth
Professional accountability relating to medicines management

Process and systems
Changing nature and context of midwifery
Situational awareness and personal safety
Developing skills in locating, sifting, retrieving and appraising and applying a range of evidence that informs frameworks decision making.
Interpretation and clinical application of statistical results reported in research papers
Informatics
Practice development
Analysing public health initiatives and services
Evaluate the role of healthcare professional(s) in public health
Evaluate programmes of parenting education, identifying areas for development or improvement
Leadership, vision and management, change theory
Develop and appraise practice initiatives to enhance delivery of midwifery services
Innovation and knowledge transfer by way of practice development
Process mapping analysis and design


Practice: In this module there are 690 hours of clinical practice. Students will gain exposure to the care of women and babies within a maternity unit setting and with community midwifery teams. In semester 2a students will have a 10 day exposure to adult nursing to meet NMC requirements. Placements will include adult intensive care and high dependency units, and acute medical and surgery areas.

In the midwifery placements students and their mentors will identify a caseload of women and take a lead in their care.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Clinical Practice	690	1.00	690.00
Seminar	10	2.00	20.00
Tutorial	10	2.00	20.00
Private study hours			30.00
Total Contact hours			730.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			760.00

Private study

The 30 hours of private study will be used to:
Prepare for the oral examination and essay.
Prepare for inquiry based learning tutorials.
Background reading.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Theoretical progress
Theoretical progress will be monitored through participation in inquiry based learning within the tutorials. A typical example would be around leadership and management skills. The example below also illustrates how key programme themes will be introduced and developed with the themes relating to research skills, decision making skills and ethics and law being fundamental to this approach. It is intended that the case scenarios are developed with input from clinical midwives to represent current practice issues. It is intended that the case scenarios are developed with input from clinical midwives to represent current practice issues

Clinical progress
Students will be assessed using the appropriate learning outcomes within the Midwifery Common Assessment Document for level 3 and their performance will be graded by their sign-off mentor in the last two weeks of their community placement. At this point students will have met all competencies to achieve the NMC standards for registration as a midwife including the Essential Skills Clusters for entry to the register.

Reflective sessions throughout the clinical placement will assist students to make links between theory and practice.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	2,500 words	30.00
Written Work	Common Assessment Document	0.00
Placement Assessment	Grading of Practice	40.00
Viva	20 minute oral examination	30.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The essay will focus on an aspect of practice development. Students will be expected to identify an aspect of service delivery and critically explore how improvements could be made appropriately underpinned by a range of evidence. The oral examination will be held with a midwifery lecturer and an appropriately experienced clinician and take the format of semi structured questions focussing on the evidence underpinning aspects of midwifery practice. No compensation is permitted between the essay, oral examination and the grading of clinical practice.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 11/08/2016

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