2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HECS2235 Compassionate Care

40 creditsClass Size: 90

Module manager: Katherine Dewhurst
Email: k.dewhurst@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

Normally 120 credits at Level 1 Pre-registration Midwifery BSc(Hons)

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

During this module you will have the opportunity to build on your foundational learning from your first year including both taught content and placement experience.You will have the opportunity to explore the role of the midwife as a knowledgeable, respectful and compassionate carer in situations where the woman experiences complications and additional care needs within her childbearing journey.Midwifery skills surrounding the anticipation, recognition, response, management and escalation of additional care needs, challenges and deviations from the norm will be explored, considering the midwifery role in collaboration with the wider Multidisciplinary Teams and other agencies, and effective communication in these circumstances.The module will provide you with the opportunity to explore, in more depth, the Midwife's role as an advocate and enabler. It will build on your understanding of evidence-based practice to explore decision making processes.You will explore the midwife's role and responsibility in promoting effective communication and ensuring meaningful conversations with the woman in the context of enabling informed decisions and providing holistic care tailored to a woman's individual circumstances. Factors which contribute to and may complicate care provision will also be considered.The module will revisit knowledge and skills which promote self-care as it introduces situations which may be more emotionally challenging.Experience within clinical placement will provide the opportunity for you to demonstrate your proficiency of the clinical skills and knowledge to the Level 2 standard

Objectives

This is a theory and practice module that builds on the taught content and placement experience of the 1st year.

Focus is given to when a woman experiences complications and additional care needs within her childbearing journey. Midwifery skills surrounding the recognition, response, management and escalation of deviations from the norm will be explored, considering not only the midwifery role in collaboration with the wider Multidisciplinary Teams, but also the midwife as a non-judgemental, respectful and compassionate carer.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students will be able to:
1. Identify the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to promote and deliver compassionate care
2. Identify the origin of errors in decision making and their consequences.
3. Develop further understanding of searching the professional and public literature using contemporary electronic resources.
4. Apply the biopsychosocial-spiritual model of health and wellbeing to partnership working.
5. Develop skills in communicating effectively and with kindness and compassion.
6. Explore how to provide and promote non-discriminatory, respectful, compassionate, and kind care, and take account of any need for adjustments.
7. Demonstrate awareness of the need to manage the personal and emotional challenges of work and workload, uncertainty, and change; and incorporate compassionate self-care into personal and professional life.
8. Understand the importance of positive role modelling and leadership development in providing safe and effective care; demonstrating skills in leadership, supervision, teamwork and recognising the contribution of others, in order to maintain and improve quality and standards.

Skills outcomes
Students will develop clinical skills for the application to Midwifery practice:

Practical sessions will be organised on campus, within the clinical
skills suite to include practice/simulation of
- Malpresentation/Malposition
- Newborn Life Support (NLS)
- Breech presentation/birth
- Shoulder dystocia diagnosis and manoeuvres.
- Skills and scenarios specific to Systematic Examination of
the Newborn - including performance of examination in
sequence, hip examination (Ortolani and Barlow), eye
examination (red reflex), use of equipment (e.g. saturation
monitor, ophthalmoscope)

Syllabus

Biopsychosocial- spiritual:
- The role of the midwife in providing compassionate care
- Strategies and skills to undertake effective communication and have authentic and meaningful conversations with women and their families
- The role of the midwife in facilitating informed decisions.
- How factors in the care environment can impact on normal physiological processes such as labour or breastfeeding.
- Recognising complications and additional care needs of the woman and her baby and planning individualised care.
o Perinatal Mental Health Challenges
o Vulnerable groups
o A woman with raised BMI
o Malposition and Malpresentation (including caring
for a woman with a Breech presentation)
o Ongoing application of the SEN in practice
o Shoulder dystocia
o Neonatal Life Support
o When breastfeeding challenges are experienced
o When mother and baby are separated including
support of expressing, breastfeeding and ensuring
positive relationship building
o Antepartum and Postpartum haemorrhage
o Bereavement and end of life care
- The role of fathers/partners and the family during the pregnancy journey.
- The role of the midwife in the provision of compassionate care at the beginning and end of life

Evidence based care:
- Role, responsibility and accountability of the midwife in the provision of evidence-based care
- The influence of culture and medical guidelines on women’s choices around childbirth.
- The implementation of guidelines in practice and the evidence base surrounding this.

Professional Practice:
- The role of the midwife in promoting a positive physical, psychological and emotional environment when complications or additional care needs are present
- Collaborative working within the multidisciplinary team, referral and liaison with other agencies
- Working effectively as a team including exploration of effective communication, Human factors, challenging practice, difficult conversations and compassionate leadership.
- Decision making
- The effects of emotional labour and strategies to cope with this.

Applied Practice
- Medicines management
- Clinical skills and underpinning knowledge appropriate to Level 2.

Content links to Standards of Proficiency for Midwives (NMC 2019)
Domain 1 = 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.15, 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.17.2, 1.17.3, 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, 1.25
Domain 2 = 2.6, 2.9, 2.10, 2.12
Domain 3= 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.6, 3.9, 3.13.1, 3.13.2, 3.13.3, 3.13.4, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16.2, 3.17.3, 3.19, 3.23, 3.24, 3.25, 3.26
Domain 4 = 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.4.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4, 4.4.5, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11
Domain 5 = 5.4, 5.9, 5.10, 5.16, 5.17

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
On-line Learning	10	1.50	15.00
Clinical Practice	300	1.00	300.00
Group learning	2	1.50	3.00
Lecture	8	1.50	12.00
Practical	2	6.00	12.00
Tutorial	4	2.00	8.00
Independent online learning hours			20.00
Private study hours			180.00
Total Contact hours			350.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			550.00

Private study

Private study and independent learning will include student engagement in a-synchronous webinars, podcasts, guided study and a growing selection of e-learning packages and resources. Group working will be enabled to support peer assessment and problem-based learning within the online environment. In line with a blended learning approach, these activities will be integrated into online synchronous key lectures and tutorial sessions, and face to face simulated practice and clinical skills learning.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

The students will undergo formative assessment and receive feedback during practical skills blocks whilst undertaking skills for obstetric emergencies and systematic examination of the newborn. They will also participate in Inquiry Based Learning as part of a group in line with their learning outcomes.

The Academic and Practice Assessor will provide ongoing feedback in relation to their performance in clinical placement, and this will contribute to evidence they will submit within their eMORA

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	3000 word essay	100.00
Placement Assessment	Selected proficiencies in level 2 eMORA (Pass/Fail)	0.00
Online Assessment	FORMATIVE: Medicines calculation	0.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The essay undertaken will be an evidence-based exploration of a chosen aspect of midwifery care. As part of a practice-based assessment, the student will be required to complete selected proficiencies within their Level 2 eMORA. This will form a summative assessment which will be performed within the SSSA tripartite process and marked on a pass/fail basis. Both the essay and Practice Based assessment will require completion to Pass the module. There will be no compensation between the essay and the eMORA The Medicines calculation assessment will take place using an online platform. This will be a formative assessment consisting of questions with 100% as the pass mark. The outcome will contribute to the completion of Medicine management proficiencies within the eMORA. The student will have opportunity to have a 2nd attempt at the assessment in the event of a 1st attempt fail. Should the student fail at 2nd attempt, this will be used as an indicator for further support being put in place in preparation for the summative Medicine calculation assessment in Year 3.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

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