2021/22 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HECS3303 Theory and Practice Preparation for Becoming a Midwife

50 creditsClass Size: 58

Module manager: Angela Graves
Email: a.graves@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Jan to 30 Sep View Timetable

Year running 2021/22

Pre-requisite qualifications

Successful completion of Level 2

Pre-requisites

HECS3258

Preparing for Midwifery Practice

This module is mutually exclusive with

HECS3259

Becoming a Midwife

Module replaces

HECS 3259 Becoming a Midwife (40 credit)Range of options modules (10 credit) For the 09/18 cohort only

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.

Objectives

This is the final theory/practice module in the programme. The balance here moves markedly towards the practice elements of the programme where students further hone their skills, develop confidence and prepare for qualification and registration. The theoretical focus is on students honing their 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.  This will develop their abilities as leaders and managers to prepare them for practice.   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.

Learning outcomes
At the end of the module students will be able to: 
  
1. Meet selected performance and skills outcomes within the Clinical Assessment Document
2. Meet the European Union and Article 40 (training of midwives) Directive 2005/36/EU
3. Critically explore current and future context of public health and maternity services
4. Critically explore service improvement principles and how they influence service provision
5. Demonstrate leadership and management skills in decision making and service delivery relating to clinical scenarios
6. Demonstrate skills to ensure life-long learning, personal and professional development
7. Critically apply evidence based practice
8. Analytically review partnership working, professional and autonomous practice.
9. Critically evaluate learning and assessment in a practice environment.
10. Analytically review programmes of parenting education and practice initiatives.
11. Critically review alternative practices/therapies integrated into healthcare and maternity services.

Skills outcomes
Midwifery care in all environments

Syllabus

Service users: 
Review the philosophy of partnership working / woman centred care  
The role and responsibilities of the midwife when service users want care normally out with the sphere of practice of the midwife

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) 
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:
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 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	626	1.00	626.00
Seminar	10	2.00	20.00
Tutorial	10	2.00	20.00
Private study hours			30.00
Total Contact hours			666.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			696.00

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

Provide detail of opportunities for students to receive formative feedback. Please state the type, frequency and length of work done by which the progress of a student is monitored (e.g. 2 x 1000 word essays).

SN@P practice sets provided for students 6 weeks in advance of the assessment – formative feedback provided via the SN@P system. Preparation for Viva timetabled where formative feedback provided verbally for students. Within clinical placements there is opportunity for formative feedback and guided development via preliminary and intermediate interviews. These are tripartite with the student, practice assessor and academic assessor.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Portfolio	Clinical Assessment Document	40.00
Viva	20 minutes	60.00
In-course Assessment	Medicines Calculations (SN@P) (pass/fail)	0.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

During placements students will need to focus on demonstrating the evidence that they meet selected performance and skills outcomes within the Clinical Assessment Document. They will also need to demonstrate and record evidence that they meet the European Union and Article 40 (training of midwives) Directive 2005/36/EU along with completion of the programme skills record. The viva voce will be held with a midwifery lecturer and (where available) an appropriately experienced clinician and take the format of semi structured questions focussing on the evidence underpinning responses to a clinical scenario. Viva lasts 20 minutes. Scenarios are provided 6 weeks beforehand for preparation. Where a clinician is not available an additional member of academic staff will be present. The viva is audio recorded for review by the external examiner and for moderation purposes.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 30/06/2021 16:22:17

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