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Midwifery Practice Learning 4 - HEA00179M

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  • Department: Health Sciences
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2026-27
    • See module specification for other years: 2025-26

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Semester 1 2026-27 to Semester 2 2026-27

Module aims

Note: This document uses the word 'women’ throughout. This should be taken to include people who do not identify as women but are pregnant or who have given birth.

 

To provide supportive, supernumerary practice learning opportunities that enable students to participate in care:

  • understand the role and scope of the midwife working within maternity care services, including interdisciplinary and multi agency working

  • maintain the required knowledge, skills and behaviours to provide universal midwifery care and additional care for women and newborn infants and families with complications.

  • promote and provide continuity of care and carer

  • professionally develop towards meeting the midwifery skills outlined within the NMC (2019) Standards of proficiency for midwives and the learning outcomes within the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) Standards.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students will be able to:

  1. Maintain identified proficiencies for Stages 1-3 in the eMORA.

  2. Able to maintain proficiency with appropriate supervision, all relevant proficiencies identified in the eMORA document.

  3. Achieve UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) themes and learning outcomes as specified for Stages 1-3/in the eMORA.

  4. Demonstrate proficiency with drug calculations, using Safe-Medicate.

Module content

Please see detailed mapping to NMC (2019) Standards of proficiency for midwives Domain 6 skills within the eMORA; this includes interprofessional learning and working.

Please see detailed mapping of this module to UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) University Standards themes and learning outcomes.

Note: Practice learning equates to 50% of the overall BMid (Hons) programme and a minimum of 2,300 practice learning hours will be evidenced over the three years. It is anticipated that students will achieve 800 practice learning hours in this module. A practice learning week will total 40 hours, comprising 37.5 hours verified by an NMC registrant and a maximum of 2.5 hours student self-declared time for reflection/professional development completion of evidence of proficiencies within the eMORA/attendance at relevant practice learning events

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) 50.0
Practical 50.0

Special assessment rules

Non-compensatable

Additional assessment information

This module is a practice module which spans across stage 4. A total of 800 practice hours should be achieved by the end of the module.

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) 50.0
Practical 50.0

Module feedback

Verbal and written evidence of achievement is provided within the student’s eMORA, verified by discussion with the Practice Assessor (PA) and Academic Assessor (AA).

Results from the safeMedicate assessment will be available within the timescale specified on the assessment schedules.

Indicative reading

Ashton, D, Ripman, J. and Williams, P. (eds) (2017). How to be a nurse or midwife leader. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell

Byrom, S. and Downe, S. (eds) (2015). The roar behind the silence: Why compassion and respect matter in maternity care. London: Pinter and Martin

Barr, J. and Dowding, L. (2016). Leadership in health care (3rd ed). London: SAGE Publications

Gopee, N. and Galloway, J. (2017). Leadership and management in healthcare. (3rd ed). London: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Johnson, R. and Taylor, W. (2022) Skills for Midwifery Practice 5th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

NMC (2015, updated 2018). The code: Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour for Nurses and Midwives. [Online]. Available at: https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/nmc-publications/nmc-code.pdf [Accessed 21 Jan 2022].

NMC (2019). Standards for pre-registration midwifery education [Online]. Available at: https://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/standards-for-midwives/standards-for-pre-registration-midwifery-programmes/ [Accessed 21 Jan 2022].

NMC (2018). Part 2: Standards for student supervision and assessment. [Online]. Available at: https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/education-standards/student-supervision-assessment.pdf [Accessed 21 Jan 2022].

NHS England (2016) National Maternity Review: Better Births – Improving outcomes of maternity services in England – A Five Year Forward View for maternity care accessed 29 Feb 2016 [Online]. Available at: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/national-maternity-review-report.pdf [Accessed 21 Jan 2022].

Smoker, A. (2016) Launching your career in nursing and midwifery. London: Palgrave.

Thompson, N. (2015). People skills. (4th ed). London: Palgrave.


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