BMidwif Midwifery / Course details

Year of entry: 2024

Course unit details:
Promoting Excellence in Midwifery (BMidwif)

Course unit fact file
Unit code NURS34102
Credit rating 30
Unit level Level 6
Teaching period(s) Semester 2
Offered by Nursing & Midwifery
Available as a free choice unit? No

Overview

This unit aims to prepare you to promote excellence as professional midwives who make an important contribution to providing, developing and maintaining high quality and safe maternity care. The unit will enable you to reflectively develop your own philosophy for professional practice and apply this to different concepts, including leadership, education, safety, and personal and professional development. You will learn through a variety of blended learning approaches, including in-person and online, small group work, guest speakers, and providing and receiving peer feedback.

Aims

This unit aims to:

  • Prepare learners for the role of the midwife in promoting excellence as a leader, educator, change-maker and partner with women/birthing people and other professionals.
  • Develop and foster learners’ personal philosophy for professional and ethical practice and life-long learning.

Teaching and learning methods

 

The intended learning outcomes (ILOs) and aims are all constructively aligned to ensure the teaching and assessment methods support the learners’ achievement of these to the highest standard. The assessment ensures that all aims and ILOs can be demonstrated as met during the assessment task and in order to facilitate learners’ understanding of the ILOs the following teaching methods will be used:

  • Flipped classroom approach
  • Seminars and small group work
  • Peer feedback (formative)
  • Lectures
  • Specialist speakers
  • Online lectures
  • Online seminars
  • Directed study
  • Guided reading

Knowledge and understanding

  • Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of midwifery leadership to improve and develop midwifery practice and safety in maternity services.
  • Systematically reflect on your personal philosophy of professional and ethical midwifery practice.
  • Critically evaluate your approach to evidence-informed education, teaching and coaching practices to support and underpin the learning of others.

Intellectual skills

  • Acknowledge and appraise the contexts in which maternity services operate and in which student midwives learn.
  • Critically analyse the impact of individuals and organisational mechanisms on safety in maternity services.
  • Systematically reflect on and analyse your individual professional practice and learning needs, fitness to practice and willingness to change, to inform your personal development.
  • Critically evaluate and respect how individuals learn.

Practical skills

  • Exhibit and reflect on leadership skills, communicating effectively and appropriately with a range of individuals.
  • Assess, create and maintain safe environments of care, and respond effectively to complex or challenging situations.
  • Facilitate others’ learning effectively.

Transferable skills and personal qualities

  • Demonstrate the skills and behaviours to effectively and appropriately respond to and participate in evidence-based change management in maternity services.
  • Reflect on personal qualities and development needs in preparation for entering the midwifery workforce.

Assessment methods

Patchwork Text

Create a patchwork text made up of 4 separate reflective ‘patches’ built up over the course of the unit, and ‘stitched’ together with one final overarching patch, plus additional information required for the AFHEA application. Within each patch analyse one area of midwifery practice. The stitching patch requires you to reflect on and analyse your learning experiences to articulate your personal philosophy for practice.

Feedback methods

Formative

Reflective journal to be kept throughout the unit and used to facilitate peer/academic discussion and feedback.

Recommended reading

  • Bass, J., Fenwick, J. and Sidebotham, M. (2017). Development of a Model of Holistic Reflection to facilitate transformative learning in student midwives. Women and birth: journal of the Australian College of Midwives, 30(3), pp.227–235.
  • Bolton, G. and Delderfield, R. (2018). Reflective practice: writing and professional development. Fifth edition. London: SAGE.
  • Downe, S., Byrom, S. and Simpson, L. (2011). Essential midwifery practice¿: leadership, expertise and collaborative working. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Gray, M., Kitson-Reynolds, E. and Cummins, A. (2019). Starting life as a midwife: an international review of transition from student to practitioner. Cham: Springer Nature.
  • Jarvis, P. and Jarvis, P. (2004). Adult education and lifelong learning: theory and practice. 3rd Ed. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
  • Kemp, J., Maclean, G.D. and Moyo, N. (2021). Midwifery Leadership. In Global Midwifery: Principles, Policy and Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 163–184.
  • Lobo, C., Paul, R. and Crozier, K. (2021). Collaborative learning in practice: coaching to support student learners in healthcare. First edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Northouse, PG, (2021) Leadership: Theory and Practice. 9th Edition, Sage, Thousand Oaks.
  • Stanley, D. (2017). Clinical leadership in nursing and healthcare: values into action. Second edition. Chichester, West Sussex, England: Wiley-Blackwell.

    Study hours

    Scheduled activity hours
    Lectures 28
    Seminars 4
    Work based learning 60
    Independent study hours
    Independent study 234

    Teaching staff

    Staff member Role
    Helen White Unit coordinator

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