2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
HECS1132 Optimising Care
40 creditsClass Size: 90
Module manager: Rose Beaumont
Email: r.beaumont@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: 1 May to 30 Sep View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
Pre-requisite qualifications
Students must have passed the practice component from the previous module before commencing the practice element for this module.This module is not approved as a discovery module
Module summary
During this module, you will acquire the knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of labour and birth. You will also have the opportunity to identify the principles of universal intrapartum care and explore the role and responsibility of the midwife in supporting women and their families to make informed choices to optimise health outcomes and their birth experience. The module will also provide opportunity for discussion and debate about the role of the midwife as an advocate, and the importance of empowerment and advocacy during labour and birth.The module will build on your previous knowledge of the adaptation of the newborn infant to extra-uterine life, including the role of the midwife working in partnership with women and families to promote health in the transition to parenthood.The module will focus on your professional development as healthcare student. There will be an opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills to promote self-care and identify strategies to meet the demands of professional practice.The module will also build on your fundamental understanding of evidence-based practice to explore different research methods and how these may answer different research questions in healthcare practice. The opportunity to explore decision-making processes which contribute to and may complicate care provision will also be considered.Experience within clinical placement will provide the opportunity to demonstrate your proficiency of the clinical skills and knowledge to the Level 1 standard.Objectives
This module will aim to explore the role of the midwife in contemporary midwifery practice, considering how to optimise care for women, newborn infants and their families as an individual practitioner and as part of the multidisciplinary team.Learning outcomes
At the end of the module students will be able to:
1. Reflect on the role, responsibility and accountability of the midwife in optimizing care.
2. Demonstrate proficiency in required practice skills for year 1.
3. Identify how particular research designs answer different research questions.
4. Describe how midwives optimise normal physiological processes, and support safe psychological, social, cultural and spiritual situations in order to promote positive outcomes.
5. Demonstrate awareness of the need to manage personal and emotional challenges of work and workload, and to begin to incorporate compassionate self-care into professional and personal life.
6. Explain why uncertainty is an important issue in healthcare decision making and describe the reasoning processes used by healthcare professionals when they make decisions.
7. Understand and demonstrate knowledge and skills in health education, health promotion and health protection to promote psychological and physical health and well-being and prevention of complications.
Skills outcomes
To demonstrate the proficiency of clinical skills to meet the Level 1 standard.
Syllabus
The module syllabus will be centred around the three programme themes:
Biopsychosocial-spiritual:
- The anatomy and physiology of the first, second and third stage of labour
- Role of the midwife in the provision of intrapartum care for women and their families
- Methods of non-pharmacological and pharmacological analgesia during labour and birth
- Role of the midwife in the provision of evidence-based information to support informed decision making, including the promotion of empowerment and advocacy for women, their newborn infants, and their families.
- Relationship building and partnership working with women and their families to optimise care during the intrapartum and postpartum period (includes NIPE)
- Pre-existing medical conditions and their significance for the childbirth continuum
- Internal and external influences to promote the physiological process of birth.
- Health promotion and education to promote psychological and physical wellbeing for women and their newborn infants.
- Adaptation of the newborn infant to extra-uterine life (NIPE)
- The influence of social, historical, cultural and media influences on public and professional understanding (NIPE)
Evidence-based care:
- Introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methods
- Introduction to reading published primary research and how different research methods may answer different research questions.
- Patient and public involvement in healthcare research
- Role, responsibility and accountability of the midwife in the provision of evidence-based intrapartum care
Professional practice:
- Preparation for clinical practice
- Reflection in and on clinical practice
- Decision making in professional practice.
- Emotional intelligence and resilience, including the role of self-efficacy for practitioner performance.
- Preparation and participation in coaching
- Development and importance of support networks
- Introduction to local and national support systems for professional practice
- Preparing for and providing feedback to peers to develop professional practice.
- Promoting anti-discriminatory professional practice
- Challenging discrimination within professional practice and identifying the potential causes of conscious and unconscious bias.
Applied practice:
- Clinical skills appropriate to Level 1
- The application of theory to clinical practice as appropriate for Level 1.
Content links to Standards of Proficiency for Midwives (NMC 2019)
Domain 1 = 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.17.2, 1.17.3, 1.18, 1.26, 1.27
Domain 2 = 2.4, 2.12
Domain 3 = 3.1, 3.2, 3.8, 3.11, 3.12.1, 3.12.2, 3.12.3, 3.12.4, 3.13.1, 3.13.2, 3.13.3, 3.13.4, 3.15, 3.17, 3.17.1, 3.17.2, 3.17.3, 3.21, 3.22, 3.23, 3.25, 3.26
Domain 4 = 4.1, 4.4.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.5, 4.8, 4.9
Domain 5 = 5.13, 5.13.1, 5.13.2, 5.13.3, 5.13.4, 5.13.5, 5.13.6, 5.15, 5.16, 5.17
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| On-line Learning | 12 | 2.00 | 24.00 |
| Clinical Practice | 300 | 1.00 | 300.00 |
| Tutorial | 3 | 2.00 | 6.00 |
| Independent online learning hours | 20.00 | ||
| Private study hours | 200.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 330.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 550.00 | ||
Private study
The students will engage in private study and independent learning to consolidate and advance their learning and understanding of the module content. Independent learning opportunities will include learning activities prior to and following online learning in formal classes. Independent learning opportunities will also include accessing a range of asynchronous learning activities.The private study hours allocated to this module will be used to prepare for the summative assignment, preparation for group learning activities, and background reading.
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Formative feedback will include:- Participation and completion of group work: exploring a case study and considering a set of
questions. Responses (1 x 500 words per group) to be added to a Padlet/Discussion board for tutor feedback. Task introduced by tutor during online taught session.
- Guided debate within synchronous formal online session
- Online quizzes: to test knowledge and check understanding in relation to the module content. Offered twice a month throughout the module. Feedback provided by module leader within taught sessions. Online quizzes also provide instant feedback to students.
Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Placement Assessment | Completion of specified level 1 proficiencies and placement assessment in eMORA and related workbooks (Pass/Fail) | 0.00 |
| Group Discussion | FORMATIVE: Guided debate within synchronous session | 0.00 |
| Group Project | FORMATIVE: Exploration of a case study and consideration of a set of questions. Students will be required a written response to a Padlet/Discussion Board for tutor feedback (1 x 500 words per group) | 0.00 |
| In-course MCQ | FORMATIVE: Online MCQ quizzes to test knowledge and check understanding | 0.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 0.00 | |
No compensation will be allowed: students will be required to pass all summative coursework to pass the module
Exams
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
| Open Book exam | 2 hr | 100.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 100.00 | |
No compensation will be allowed: students will be required to pass the summative exam to pass the module
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 29/04/2024 16:14:53
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