2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HECS3307 Promoting Excellence in Midwifery Practice

40 creditsClass Size: 90

Module manager: Jane Tyler
Email: j.tyler@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

Normally 120 credits at level 2

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

During this module students will continue to develop and build upon the knowledge and skills acquired in level 2 to be able to promote excellence in the delivery of care to women and babies with complications and additional care needs. The module will build upon the importance of communication, collaborative working and will apply this to practice- particularly situations where complications and emergencies occur. Professional accountability, professional misconduct, leadership and the importance of debrief in clinical practice will also be exploredand discussed in the context of the role of the midwife and the wider multi-disciplinary team. Clinical skills days focused on obstetric emergencies and recognition and management of the deteriorating woman will give students the opportunity to develop their knowledge, leadership and practical skills. This will be facilitated using different teaching methods and technologies such as the SIM-MOM and filming facilities within the clinical skills suite which will enable students to work in real-time simulation scenarios, apply underpinning knowledge of human factors and have the opportunity for detailed formative feedback from lecturers, clinical practitioners and their peers.

Objectives

This module will focus on developing the skills, knowledge and attributes required to promote excellence in the delivery of care to women and newborn infants with a focus on complications and additional care needs. Students will continue to evaluate and critically appraise knowledge, research and policy to determine priorities for safe, effective care delivery and service improvement with a national and global insight.

Learning outcomes
At the end of the module students will be able to:
1. Critically apply and demonstrate the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to promote excellence and deliver holistic care to women and newborn infants with complications and additional care needs.
2. Identify different methods / tools that can be used to assist with decision making in midwifery practice.
3. Critically explore quality and safety in maternity care, the importance of duty of candour and the role of midwives in enabling effective team working and promoting continuous improvement
4. Demonstrate underpinning knowledge and the ability to respond promptly to the signs of compromise and deterioration in the woman, fetus and newborn infant and to make clinical decisions based on needs, best practice evidence and act on those decisions.
5. Critically discuss the implications of poor practice through the regulatory framework and professional misconduct procedures.
6. Act appropriately in an obstetric emergency and understand the importance and implications of human factors.
7. Work inter-professionally in optimising normal physiological processes during childbearing and supporting safe physical, psychological, social and spiritual situations, working to promote positive outcomes and anticipate and prevent complications.

Skills outcomes
Students will develop skills for recognition and management of acute clinical situations and how to care for mothers and babies with complications.

Syllabus

Professional Practice:
Communication and interpersonal skills
Leadership skills in preparation for joining the professional register.
Ethics and accountability surrounding examination of the newborn.
Ethics and legislation surrounding acute deterioration.
Duty of candour, substandard care and the importance of human factors.
Case-studies from clinical practice.

Applied Practice:
Clinical skills and human factors.
Recognition and management of the deteriorating condition, obstetric emergencies (APH, PPH, Breech, PET, Sepsis, DIC, BLS, NLS, cord) and enhanced care.

Biopsychosocial-Spiritual:
Identification, management and care of women and newborns with additional and complex needs. Care of the critically ill woman, recognising and responding to the deteriorating fetus, debrief and maternal cardiac conditions.
Pathophysiology relating to obstetric emergencies and acute scenarios (such as VTE and anaphylaxis)
Medicines management.

Evidence based practice:
Midwifery and childbearing from a national and global perspective
Evidence driving practice development.
Midwifery in an epidemic/pandemic

Content links to Standards of Proficiency for Midwives (NMC 2019)

Domain 1 = 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17.1, 1.17.3, 1.18, 1.20, 1.21, 1.24, 1.25
Domain 2 = 2.2, 2.3, 2.6, 2.9, 2.10, 2.1
Domain 3 = 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, 3.17.2, 3.17.3, 3.18, 3.19, 3.20, 3.23, 3.24, 3.25, 3.2
Domain 4 = 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4, 4.4.5, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.10, 4.11
Domain 5 = 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, 5.13.1, 5.13.2, 5.13.3, 5.13.4, 5.13.5, 5.13.6, 5.14, 5.16, 5.17, 5.18

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Clinical Practice	300	1.00	300.00
Lecture	16	1.50	24.00
Practical	3	6.00	18.00
Seminar	4	1.50	6.00
Tutorial	2	1.00	2.00
Independent online learning hours			10.00
Private study hours			40.00
Total Contact hours			350.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			400.00

Private study

Private study to read around module taught content and to build upon independent online learning for example looking at further reading and research around subject areas.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will be offered formative feedback in a variety of formats throughout the module to give the opportunity to enhance their learning and development, this will be via:

- Formative feedback from academic supervision for the essay in line with school guidance
- Practice MCQ to be undertaken during tutorial with lecturer feedback.
- Practice numeracy test with feedback
- During clinical skills sessions there will be the opportunity to use filming facilities within the clinical skills suite which will enable students to work in real-time simulation scenarios with the opportunity for detailed formative feedback from lecturers, clinical practitioners and their peers.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	Essay (2500 words)	60.00
In-course MCQ	FORMATIVE: Practice MCQ- online	0.00
Placement Assessment	Selected performance and skills outcomes in level 3 eMORA (Pass/Fail)	0.00
Online Assessment	FORMATIVE:Practice numeracy exam	0.00
Practical	FORMATIVE: Video of Clinical Scenarios	0.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		60.00

There is no compensation between the essay, MCQ and eMORA. Students need to complete the required competencies (pass/fail) located within the eMORA and successfully complete the essay and MCQ in order to pass the module. The medicines management assessment will need to be completed successfully in order to complete the eMORA. There are two attempts permitted for the medicines management assessment before the eMORA is considered as failed.

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Online MCQ	1 hr 20 mins	40.00
Online Time-Limited assessment	1 hr	0.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		40.00

The MCQ will consist of a 80-minute exam with questions relating to assessment of the module content. The exam will be held on campus and conducted via online software, accessed by students, via Minerva. Pass mark for medicines management exam 100%- students will be offered resit

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

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