Consolidating Midwifery Practice

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Reflect on how you, as a professional, engage in effective and compassionate self-care practices to support your personal and emotional well-being.
• Apply advanced problem-solving and critical thinking skills to assess, analyse, and manage clinical situations, making evidence-based decisions that ensure optimal outcomes for both mother and fetus/infant.
• Communicate effectively and professionally with women, families, and multidisciplinary teams, demonstrating respect, empathy, and the ability to negotiate, advocate, and collaborate.
• Demonstrate the ability to autonomously plan, deliver, and manage safe and effective midwifery care, considering the physical, emotional, cultural, and psychological needs of women and newborn infants.
• Recognise and respond, and where appropriate, escalate care during evolving clinical situations, to ensure timely interventions and collaboration with relevant healthcare professionals.

Decision making theories applied to simulation and clinical practice. Informed choice and presentation of risk. Risk assessment and management when managing care. Self-leadership and leading clinical care. Patient safety, human factors, clinical escalation, challenging colleagues in clinical practice. Interdisciplinary team working in clinical practice. Application of existing knowledge of anatomy and physiology and the physiological adaptations which occur in pregnancy to clinical practice. Applying learning of additional care needs and obstetric emergencies to clinical practice. Caring for someone requiring critical care. Recognising and managing the deteriorating patient. Application of clinical guidelines and evidence base to clinical practice. The role of debriefing in midwifery. Midwife as an educator Midwife as supervisor of student midwives and other learners within a variety of environments including consideration of learner's professional values, knowledge base, proficiency, 6 C’s and action plan development. Development of coaching skills to support all staff learning in practice. Managing the emotional challenges of work and workload, uncertainty, and change Compassionate self-care as a registered midwife Self-care strategies and strength based approaches Programme threads are linked throughout and include: Infant feeding principles Medicines management Reflection Mental health and well-being Values Based Enquiry Journey Leadership Coaching

Synchronous and asynchronous lectures Group work Simulated sessions Debrief reflective sessions Self-directed study Blended learning

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Practical assessment

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Formative assessment feedback will be via peer and academic feedback within the skills rehearsal simulation activities.
• Final Assessment:
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.