BSc Midwifery(with Registration) (2021 Curriculum)

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
1. demonstrate a broad understanding of the concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which
are standard features in a range of aspects of midwifery;
2. apply generic and subject specific intellectual qualities to standard situations outside the context in which they
were originally studied;
3. appreciate and employ the main methods of enquiry in the subject and critically evaluate the appropriateness of
different methods of enquiry;
4. use a range of techniques to initiate and undertake the analysis of data and information;
5. adjust to professional and disciplinary boundaries;
6. effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms.
7. Meet the NMC criteria for progression

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
1. qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject area(s) studied;
2. skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
3. decision making.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules
specified for the year/programme and will include:
1. demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline/profession to
complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
2. work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
3. demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the midwifery;
4. the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.