BMid (Hons) Midwifery (2 Year)

Module: 5MI011

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module will further develop your knowledge of the antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal and early neonatal periods. It will also allow you to consider the role of the midwife when caring for women and babies with prevalent complications or further care needs for example women who have their pregnancies complicated by pre-existing illness, or who are suffering a complicated labour or birth. The care of the unwell infant will also be studied and you will cover the theoretical concepts underpinning the care of these vulnerable infants.

Module: 5MI012

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This predominantly practice based module will provide you with further opportunities to gain knowledge and skills from the clinical area, whilst continuing to work alongside qualified members of staff. A key element within this module is the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) and the module will also enable you to develop your knowledge of clinical practice when caring for women and infants with both universal and further care needs. You will also be expected to consider your own role in providing individualised care and your ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary and/or multi-professional team. As with all of our practice modules, there will be opportunities for you to learn with, from and about other clinical areas.

Module: 5MI014

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module will enhance your understanding of your professional, legal and ethical responsibilities as a midwife when providing care (including topics such as consent, safeguarding, record keeping, data sharing and the duties of care and candour). It will also explore the role of the midwife as a clinical leader within contemporary contexts, with a specific focus on improving care within and across interdisciplinary and multiagency teams. Throughout the module you will be supported to further develop your skills in accessing and critiquing research as a basis for the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care.

Module: 5MI015

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module supports you to make the transition from nursing to midwifery practice by giving you the relevant skills and underpinning theory. You will develop your knowledge around the normal and altered physiology of the woman and neonate during the childbearing continuum and you will explore the roles and responsibilities of the midwife when caring for women and neonates during normal situations and those which require additional care. You will develop your skills when working within a interdisciplinary or multiagency team to ensure the provision and safe and effective care to women and neonates.

Module: 6MI016

Credits: 40

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will continue to build upon your knowledge of the antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal and neonatal period. It will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively recognise and care for women and neonates who are experiencing complex needs or critical conditions in pregnancy, birth, postnatal or neonatal periods

Module: 6MI018

Credits: 40

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This predominantly practice based module will allow you to consolidate your learning and prepare you for the transition into an autonomous practitioner. It will enable you to develop further your competence to assume the lead professional role in providing sensitive care for women experiencing low risk pregnancy and childbirth and their babies and to consider the care of women and babies who are high risk (where other members of the multi-disciplinary team are involved). You will develop confidence and flexibility in applying knowledge within the care situation, in readiness for autonomous practice.

Module: 6MI017

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will provide you with knowledge and skills which will support you to lead improvements in the quality of midwifery care through evidence-based enquiry within and across diverse clinical settings. You will be encouraged to think innovatively, to explore the development of midwifery practice and to look at service delivery within increasingly varied care systems.

Module: 6MI019

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will prepare you for the transition into your role as a qualified midwife. This includes developing your potential to lead, to supervise students and to educate women and their families. This module will also provide you with the skills to be a lifelong learner who is a self-aware, critically reflective practitioner.

• We are proud to confirm that our £300 travel fund to support eligible new UK full-time undergraduate entrants with the costs of travel, continues 2020/21 and 21/22 entrants.
• At Walsall Campus you will be taught in our state-of-the-art skills facility in the Sister Dora Building. The skills laboratories have an immersive simulation suite, meaning we can change the environment without moving the students. Through these simulations, you will get a sense of the environment in clinical practice and apply appropriate responses.
• The new state-of-the-art skills and simulation suite at Walsall Campus allows you to gain a sense of the clinical practice environment and apply appropriate responses. The new skills suite now includes simulated in-hospital, home and community environments and the use of world-leading technologies such as a virtual dissection anatomy table, allowing for 3D images of human anatomy and diseases to come alive to support learning and inquiry.
• You will gain hands-on experience in a variety of hospital and community settings, working alongside a range of healthcare and other professionals. You will experience opportunities for inter-disciplinary learning across all nursing pathways and with midwifery, social work and social care.The University prides itself on its excellent partnership working arrangements with local NHS trusts and private, voluntary and independent sector organisations for placement opportunities. This partnership works to provide excellent support for you whilst you are on placement ensuring that you are supported and exposed to relevant learning opportunities. Our tutors work closely with practice staff to promote a dynamic, interactive learning environment in which you are encouraged to be an active participant in learning rather than a passive recipient.
• Inter-professional learning (IPL) opportunities (when professionals and/students from different disciplines, learn from and about each other’s roles) are embedded in all three years of the programme. IPL is vital in supporting you to develop the knowledge, skills and insights necessary to ultimately deliver the highest quality of care and work within increasingly integrated and complex health and social care settings.
• When you apply to the University of Wolverhampton, we provide you with a list of all of our placement providers. You then get to select a first and second choice as to where you would like to spend your time in practice. Students always evaluate this well as it means you get to know your local Trust – the Trust gets to grow their own workforce, and you as the student have a greater chance of earning a job at the end of your course.

Who will teach you on this course?

All of the lecturing staff in the midwifery team are Registered Midwives. You will benefit from the team’s expertise, which draws on a wealth of different experiences including a range of clinical, managerial, commissioning and research.

Visiting and honorary lecturers/speakers from a wide range of healthcare and related fields will also participate in the programme who will share contemporary and real-world examples of practice.

We work very closely with service users and carers, people who have had experiences themselves of maternity services and want to make a difference to what you, our student midwives, experience. They inform the course content and are involved in its delivery.

Want to find out more?

Why not attend one of our Open Days, where you will have the opportunity to talk to staff and students who are currently studying and find out more about the course and our facilities?

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As a Registered Midwife you will:

• meet the NMC ‘Standards of Proficiency for Midwives’
• have obtained the subject knowledge and understanding surrounding the professional and ethical conduct of a midwife, to deliver a high standard of appropriate midwifery care and leadership and supervision of others, as well as being able to reflect on your personal and professional development
• demonstrate subject-specific knowledge related to maternity care, including professional and ethical practice, appropriate care delivery, managing care and personal and professional management
• identify health and social care policy trends and be able to use evidence and develop arguments to underpin your own practice, to evaluate the delivery of healthcare services
• be able to apply decision-making and problem-solving techniques in order to provide quality care to patients and support their families.

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