This module is a skills-based module which students will be utilising in Midwifery practice placements with taught elements aligned to the Midwifery Ongoing Record of Achievement (MORA). 

This module will provide students with knowledge and understanding of advancing additional care needs in midwifery practice, recognising and leading on the management of care provision and practising advanced midwifery skills, including consolidation of knowledge on pharmacology in Midwifery.

This module will provide students with the critical knowledge and understanding of providing safe and effective universal and additional midwifery care and how this underpins midwifery practice. It will prepare students for their professional role as a midwife through critical examination of increasing complexity of cases. This will allow students to develop their skills of working in partnership with women, their families, interdisciplinary and multiagency colleagues to provide holistic, individualised and family centred care (including infant feeding) in the most challenging of circumstances. Using case-based learning, the module will equip the students with the following essential theory:

1. Detailed examination of optimal, evidence-based and research informed care, throughout the maternity index to pre-empt, recognise and respond appropriately to pre-existing, emerging and emergency complications of physical, emotional and social conditions of the most vulnerable women / birthing people.
2. Building on the knowledge of diverse social circumstances, through use of cultural and emotional intelligence to support and work with families in stressful and difficult situations.
3. In-depth consideration of optimal evidence-based, research informed planning of care for women and/or partners and families experiencing mental perinatal illness and following traumatic experiences. Exploration of the role of collaboration with interdisciplinary and multi-agency teams in these circumstances to develop strategies to contribute to compassionate, safe and effective practice.
4. Development of knowledge and reflection on practice experiences to facilitate working in partnership with interdisciplinary and multiagency teams to plan, implement and evaluate compassionate, respectful, empathetic and dignified midwifery care for women and/or partners and their families experiencing perinatal loss or severe maternal morbidity or mortality.
5. Exploration of the approaches and techniques available to the 21st century midwife to recognise and address personal, physical, cultural & emotional vulnerability in themselves, colleagues and those they care for: building strategies for strength-based approaches for compassionate care of self and others.
6. Critical appraisal skills - the process of examining, interpreting and assessing research informed evidence using a systematic approach and how this informs a literature review.

This module will provide students with the knowledge and understanding of professionalism and how this underpins midwifery practice. It will prepare students for their professional role as a midwife through critical examination of professionalism. Using related cases relevant to practice, situational learning and reflection, the module will equip the students with the following essential theory:

1. Examination of management and leadership styles and skills and their potential to support and promote safe, effective & collaborative provision of care for women[1] / birthing people and families and colleagues across the interdisciplinary team.
2. Building on personal professional identity, evaluation of the role of individual and collaborative management of complexities and continuous quality improvement in the provision of effective and person- centred safe care for all.
3. Examination of continuous professional development in midwifery through development of skills of research, reflection, collaboration and application of scholarly activities to support and promote evidence-based improvements in practice building on the University philosophy of the Citizen Student.
4. Consolidation of the skills and knowledge developed so far in relation to the responsibilities of autonomous and accountable practice: professional issues, evidence-based practice, NMC Standards, proficiencies and the scope of practice.
5. Development of knowledge of the theory and practical elements of supervising and supporting students in practice, giving feedback, and assessing students (including documentation).

Additionally, an exploration of the approaches and techniques available to the 21st century midwife will be utilised to recognise and address personal, physical, cultural & emotional vulnerability in themselves, colleagues and those they care for, building strategies for strength-based approaches for compassionate care of self and others.

This module will provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to able to effectively undertake and be proficient in conducting the full systematic examination of the newborn. It will expand on the students’ knowledge and skills, promoting a consolidated understanding of the full systematic examination of the newborn in readiness for their role as a skilled and autonomous practitioner. This module will equip the students with the following essential requisite theory:

1. Recognition of professional responsibility and accountability whilst conducting the full systematic examination of the newborn; proficiency in disseminating results, information and provision of person centered conversations to women/birthing people and their families.
2. Expertise in the systematic examination of the newborn infant and the requirements for appropriate referral to, and collaboration with the interdisciplinary and multi-agency teams, in accordance with full systematic examination of the newborn standards and in-line with current evidence-based practice; Detailed and specific knowledge and skills of the full systematic examination of the newborn to include the eyes, heart, hips and testes; History taking and ability to utilise pre-examination information and recognition of significant factors in the antenatal period and events during the intrapartum period that may impact neonatal outcome, including safeguarding.
3. Detailed anatomy, physiology and epigenetics of fetal development and adaptation to extra-uterine life in the context of the systematic examination of the newborn.
4. Provision of authentic, meaningful and culturally appropriate communication incorporating advocacy and sensitive conversations relating to newborn infant and health education, and infant feeding advice and support.