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Midwifery Practice Learning 1 - HEA00081C

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  • Department: Health Sciences
  • Credit value: 40 credits
  • Credit level: C
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Autumn Term 2022-23 to Summer Vacation 2022-23

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

  • develop the required knowledge, skills and behaviours to provide universal midwifery care to women and newborn infants and families.

  • 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. Demonstrate progression towards the identified proficiencies for Stage one in the eMORA.

  2. Demonstrate they are able to participate under direct supervision and direction, all relevant proficiencies identified in the eMORA document.

  3. Achieve UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) themes and learning outcomes as specified for Stage One/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
Essay/coursework 50

Special assessment rules

Non-compensatable

Additional assessment information

This module is a practice module which spans across stage 1. A total of 800 practice hours should be achieved by the end of the module.

Indicative reassessment

None

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

Andrews, A. and St. Aubyn, B. (2020). Record keeping for nurses and midwives: an essential guide. Kewsick: M&K Publishing.

Homer, C., Brodie, P., Sandall, J. and Leap, N. (2019). Midwifery continuity of care: a practical guide. (2nd ed). Australia: Elsevier.

Johnson, R. and Taylor, W. (2022). Skills for midwifery practice. (5th ed). Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier.

Lindsay, P., Bagness, C. and Peate, I. (2018.) Midwifery skills at a glance. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.

NMC. (2018).The Code: professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates. [Online]. Available at: https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/nmc-publications/nmc-code.pdf [Accessed 11 March 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 11 March 2022].

NMC. (2019) Part 3: 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 11 March 2022].

NMC. (2019). Standards of proficiency for midwives. [Online]. Available at: https://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/standards-for-midwives/standards-of-proficiency-for-midwives/ [Accessed 11 March 2022].

NMC. (2021) Practising as a midwife in the UK. [Online]. Available at: https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/nmc-publications/practising-as-a-midwife-in-the-uk.pdf [Accessed 11 March 2022].

safeMedicate. (2022). What is safeMedicate? [Online]. Available at: https://www.safemedicate.com/ [Accessed 11 March 2022].

UNICEF UK. (2019). Guide to the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative standards . [Online] Available at: https://www.unicef.org.uk/babyfriendly/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/Guide-to-the-Unicef-UK-Baby-Friendly-Initiative-University-Standards.pdf [Accessed 11 March 2022].

UNICEF UK. (2022). The Baby Friendly Initiative. [Online] Available at: https://www.unicef.org.uk/babyfriendly/ [Accessed 11 March 2022].


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