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Developing Competent Midwifery Practice (A)

Code / MI227
Level / 5
Credit rating / 30
Pre-requisites / Students will have successfully completed year one of the BSc (Hons)/Dip HE midwifery – 3 year course
Type of module / Extensive
Aims / This module aims to:
  • Develop clinical competence that is underpinned by knowledge and understanding
  • Develop standards of professional conduct as required by the NMC

Learning outcomes/objectives / Following satisfactory completion of this module students will be able to:
  1. Compare and contrast those competencies reached in previous modules to the care of women throughout childbearing including women and babies experiencing complications.
  2. Demonstrate ability to be able to contribute to the assessment of needs, planning, implementing and evaluating individualised care of women during childbearing including women and babies experiencing complications.
  3. Demonstrate and show an understanding of communication and interpersonal skills, which develop caring, therapeutic and empowering relationships with women and their families
  4. Demonstrate effective contemporaneous record keeping
  5. Demonstrate effective working across professional boundaries and development of professional networks
  6. Demonstrate ability to be able to identify actual and potential risks to clients, self and others, and participate in measures to promote health and safety
  7. Demonstrate an understanding of the benefits of seamless care and working in new ways
  8. Demonstrate literacy, numeracy, and computer skills needed to record, enter, store, retrieve and organise data essential for care delivery
  9. Demonstrates the principles of drug administration and complementary therapies, including pharmacokinetics, routes of administration and legal aspects as applied to midwifery practice, within the context of existing NMC registration
  10. Demonstrate analysis and reflection of their practice.

Content / Through learning opportunities in clinical practicestudents will work under the supervision of their sign-off mentor. Through this process they will engage in midwifery care in a variety of settings.
During this time they will be working on developing the following skills in clinical practice and that all skills will include communication, reflection and documentation of care.
Skills:
  1. Administration of Medicines - to include:
IV fluids, blood transfusion, asepsis
  1. Vaginal Examination - to include:
rationale for performing a VE in pregnancy, labour and the puerperium, recognising deviation from the normal
  1. Monitoring of the Fetal Heart - to include: use of Pinnard, CTG & hand held Doppler, recognising deviation from the normal
  2. Preparation for theatre – to include: valid consent, check list, psychological impact
  3. Postoperative Care – to include: assessing levels of consciousness, skin integrity, physical comfort
  4. Infant feeding – to include: promoting breastfeeding, facilitating alternative methods of feeding
  5. Female urinary catheterisation – to include management of consent, privacy, dignity, asepsis & record keeping and urine output
  6. Assessment, Examinationand Care of the Neonate - to include: Jaundice, SGA, Low birth weight- preterm neonate.
Authentic World-Medication dosage calculation package
Teaching and learning strategies / Some taught sessions will be undertaken in the classroom to prepare students for practice this will include practical sessions and reflecting on practice. Most learning and teaching will take place in the clinical environment facilitated by sign-off mentorsand midwifery lecturers.
Learning in relation to numeracy and midwifery calculations will be facilitated through the use of Authentic World Software
Learning support / Baston, H. and H. Durward. 2001. Examination of the Newborn: A Practical Guide. London: Routledge.
Bick, D. et al. 2002. Postnatal Care: Evidence and Guidelines for Management. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Brayford, D. 2008. Evidence-based care for midwives: clinical effectiveness made easy. 2nd ed. Abingdon: Radcliffe.
Chapman,V. and C.Charles. 2009. TheMidwife’s Labour and Birth Handbook. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Clement, S. 1998. Psychological Perspectives on Pregnancy and Childbirth. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Davis, L. 2008. Examination of the newborn and neonatal health: a multidimensional approach. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Fraser, D.M. and M.A. Cooper. 2003. Myles Textbook for Midwives. 14th Ed. London: Churchill Livingstone.
Henderson, C. and S. Macdonald. 2004. Mayes Midwifery: A textbook for midwives. 13th ed. London: Bailliere Tindall.
Hobbs, L. 2001. The Best Labour Possible. Oxford: Books for Midwives.
Jasper, M. 2006. Professional developments, reflection and decision making. Oxford: Blackwell
Johnson, R. and W. Taylor. 2006. Skills for Midwifery Practice. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.
Jordan, S. 2002. Pharmacology for Midwives: the evidence base for safe practice. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
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Assessment tasks / The assessment module will comprise of two parts.
Part one: Practice Assessment Document – Developing Midwifery Practice Module (MI227) Level 5. Students will demonstrate evidence of satisfactory completion of all elements of the Practice Assessment Document. Assessment will be undertaken by the sign-off mentors in the practice environment.
Part two: Authentic World. A minimum pass mark of 80% in a summative on-line drug calculation invigilated examination (Authentic World)
A pass mark must be achieved in both parts in order to pass the module.
Brief description of module content and/or aims (maximum 80 words) / This module will enable students to be credited for their clinical practice. It aims to enable them to build from previous modules to further develop their competence as a midwife including care of women and babies experiencing complications.
Students will be encouraged to follow the care of two women selected from practice to share the woman’s experience of childbirth. This will enable them to develop an understanding of the benefits of seamless care and working in new ways.
Area examination board to which module relates / Midwifery
Module team/authors/ coordinator / Module Leader: Julie Sinden-Edwards
Authors: Cathy O’Callaghan & Kim Hill
Semester offered, where appropriate / Year 2
Site where delivered / Eastbourne
Date of first approval / 2nd May 2007
Date of last revision / January 2011
Date of approval of this version / 17 Feb 2011
Version number / 5
Replacement for previous module / MI 217 Skills for Midwifery Practice 2
Field for which module is acceptable and status in that field / Midwifery
Course(s) for which module is acceptable and status in course / BSc (Hons) Midwifery – 3 year
Mandatory
School home / School of Nursing and Midwifery
External examiner
New external examiner / Denise Campbell, (September 2010 – September 2014)