MW0633 - Additional Midwifery Care for Women and Families: Integration and Co-ordination

The module consists of complex and challenging topics relating to maternity care. You will learn primarily through a series of interactive seminars and debates, which require you to prepare beforehand and play an active part in. Module activities will be blended to create a mix of face to face and online activities supported by the University’s Electronic Learning Platform, the seminars are designed to challenge you and to facilitate effective collaboration, developing your inquiry, critical appraisal, and communication skills, and signposting you to further reading and learning activities. Interactive peer learning is a fundamental aspect of the module, enabling you to reflect on the skills and attributes required to engage women, their partners and social support networks, including the most vulnerable. Again, women’s voices and experiences will be integral to the module, for example through the involvement of service user groups who work with vulnerable families, and this forms a critical part of the formative assessment. The module content will enable you to build positive relationships which respect the diversity of contemporary family life and effective midwifery practice.

The academic staff involved in delivering this module will provide guidance and academic counselling to ensure that you are able to confidently engage with the module content. Learning materials, including directed and e-learning will be made available on the electronic learning platform. The seminars will form an opportunity for lecturer and peer support and feedback throughout the module. Formative feedback will be available to enable you to review your learning in a safe and supportive environment, and a group tutorial will further support preparation for the module assessment. In addition, the module will be supported by University library staff and resources, including study skills support packages.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.

Knowledge & Understanding:
1. Critically analyse the holistic health care needs of women and families across the childbearing continuum, from a local, national and international perspective
2. Critically appraise evidence and research underpinning ill health and complexity in maternity care.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
3. Critically reflect on the role of the midwife within the MDT when providing additional care to women and families, including the ability to recognise and prioritise needs, manage and refer as appropriate.
4. Demonstrate capability when planning and providing care that recognises the service user voice, whilst considering multiple and complex professional frameworks and boundaries.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
5. Demonstrate capability in building strengths in vulnerable women through evidence-based, respectful, empowering and inclusive approaches to midwifery practice.

Formative:
10-minute oral presentation of a case from practice to peers and service user stakeholders. Feedback provided in relation to the service user voice, empowerment and the legal and ethical frameworks informing midwifery care (LO3, 4, 5).

Summative:
30-minute oral viva of the case from practice.
MLO 1,2,3,4,5 (100%)

Feedback through marking rubric and qualitative comments.

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This year three module builds on prior learning and practice experience, developing your knowledge and confidence in caring for the most vulnerable women and families as you approach qualification. The module explores complex issues around ill health and their influence on childbearing and maternity care, a critical appraisal of health policy and the evidence base for practice. The module will examine complexity in relation to the physical, psychological, and social wellbeing of women and families, and the role of the midwife as the co-ordinator of care. It will develop confidence and competence around effective collaborative working and inter-disciplinary practice in challenging circumstances.