Supporting Women with Additional Care Needs

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This document only provides information for the academic year selected and does not form part of the student contract

School:

School of Human and Health Sciences

Credit Rating:

Level (including FHEQ):

I (FHEQ Level 5)

Graded or Non Graded:

Graded

Version Valid From:

2024-09-01

Module Leader:

Rebecca Hudson-Tandy

Version Number

2024.02

Learning Methods

Seminar

Supervised Time in Studio/Workshop

Practical Classes and Demonstrations

Guided Independent Study

Tutorial and Project Supervision

Lecture

Requirements

Barred Combinations

Shared Teaching

HIM2001 - Supporting Women with Additional Care Needs

Professional Body Requirements

Nursing and Midwifery Council

Synopsis

In this module you’ll explore the midwife’s role and responsibilities in meeting the additional care needs of women with complications. You’ll learn about pathology, pre-existing, current and emerging complications and additional care needs affecting childbearing women, as well as how these complications can affect women’s health and wellbeing. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills required to recognise compromise and deterioration, provide first-line management, escalate concerns appropriately and work collaboratively with the interprofessional team to provide evidence-based best practice approaches to management and care. This will comprise situations including breech birth, haemorrhage and caesarean and conditions such as diabetes.

Learning Strategy

Apprentice midwives’ learning will develop through lectures, facilitated group work, directed independent study and through applying theoretical understanding to supervised practical experience in the clinical skills laboratories and placement. Learning will be supported by course tutors, clinical health professionals, peer assisted learning, service users and the virtual learning environment. Apprentice … For more content click the Read More button below.

Apprentice midwives’ learning will develop through lectures, facilitated group work, directed independent study and through applying theoretical understanding to supervised practical experience in the clinical skills laboratories and placement. Learning will be supported by course tutors, clinical health professionals, peer assisted learning, service users and the virtual learning environment. Apprentice midwives will experience shared teaching with students on the equivalent module on the Midwifery Degree course.

Outline Syllabus

During this module you will apply and build on learning from year one to develop midwifery knowledge, skills and attributes in relation to the following:Accountable, autonomous, professional midwifery practice, including• Professional ethical, regulatory and legislative frameworks, including the Code (NMC, 2018)• Non-discriminatory, respectful care adjustments• Advocating for women who are … For more content click the Read More button below. Universal care for all women and newborn infants, including• Assessment, screening, care planning and evaluation to anticipate and prevent complications• Recognising when additional care or support is needed Additional care for women and newborn infants with complications, including• Effective communication with women, their families and colleagues in challenging and emergency situations• Traumatic experiences and breaking bad news• Physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual factors relating to additional care needs• Pre-existing conditions e.g. diabetes, gynaecological conditions; recognising women’s expertise, female genital mutilation• Current and emerging conditions e.g. breech, shoulder dystocia, haemorrhage, multiple pregnancy, retained placenta, infection and sepsis, caesarean section, instrumental birth, perineal trauma, venous thromboembolism• Peri-operative care including anaesthesics• Investigations e.g. bacteriology, biochemistry, virology• Early warning tools, communication tools and escalating concerns• Prompt response to deterioration and compromise, including first-line management• Safe supply and administration of medicines• Death and end of life care• Care environment including high dependency / intensive care Excellence in midwifery care; working as a colleague, scholar and leader, including• Collaborative interdisciplinary and multi-agency team-working and information-sharing• Contemporary evidence-informed practice• Improvement processes, including serious incident and near-miss reporting• Reflection Practical skills will include:• Episiotomy and perineal repair• Cannulation, intravenous fluids and medicines, blood transfusion; fluid balance, managing adverse reactions• Bladder catheterisation• Speculum examination and vaginal swabs• Maternity emergencies: breech, shoulder dystocia, haemorrhage, eclampsia, cord prolapse, sepsis, instrumental birth, manual removal of placenta, airway management• Skills revision – supervised time in labs

Universal care for all women and newborn infants, including
• Assessment, screening, care planning and evaluation to anticipate and prevent complications
• Recognising when additional care or support is needed

Additional care for women and newborn infants with complications, including
• Effective communication with women, their families and colleagues in challenging and emergency situations
• Traumatic experiences and breaking bad news
• Physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual factors relating to additional care needs
• Pre-existing conditions e.g. diabetes, gynaecological conditions; recognising women’s expertise, female genital mutilation
• Current and emerging conditions e.g. breech, shoulder dystocia, haemorrhage, multiple pregnancy, retained placenta, infection and sepsis, caesarean section, instrumental birth, perineal trauma, venous thromboembolism
• Peri-operative care including anaesthesics
• Investigations e.g. bacteriology, biochemistry, virology
• Early warning tools, communication tools and escalating concerns
• Prompt response to deterioration and compromise, including first-line management
• Safe supply and administration of medicines
• Death and end of life care
• Care environment including high dependency / intensive care

Excellence in midwifery care; working as a colleague, scholar and leader, including
• Collaborative interdisciplinary and multi-agency team-working and information-sharing
• Contemporary evidence-informed practice
• Improvement processes, including serious incident and near-miss reporting
• Reflection

Practical skills will include:
• Episiotomy and perineal repair
• Cannulation, intravenous fluids and medicines, blood transfusion; fluid balance, managing adverse reactions
• Bladder catheterisation
• Speculum examination and vaginal swabs
• Maternity emergencies: breech, shoulder dystocia, haemorrhage, eclampsia, cord prolapse, sepsis, instrumental birth, manual removal of placenta, airway management
• Skills revision – supervised time in labs

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students will

Be able to critically analyse the physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual factors that can contribute to and arise from childbearing complications and additional care needs.

Be able to critically appraise the roles and professional responsibilities of the midwife in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for women with additional needs.

Be able to critique individual, organisational and professional strategies for improving processes and outcomes relating to childbearing complications.

Be able to evaluate and apply appropriate evidence-based approaches to managing complications and emergency situations in midwifery practice.

Be able to apply a sound understanding of childbearing complications and team-working to effectively collaborate with women, their families, multi-disciplinary and inter-agency colleagues using a range of appropriate strategies.

Formative Assessment

Assessment 1: Written plan

Assessment 2: Practical skills assessment

Summative Assessment

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Assessment 2: Practical Skills Assessment

Assessment Criteria

Both components must be passed at 40% in order to gain credit for the module. This is a requirement of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2018) Standards framework for nursing and midwifery education. The School generic grading criteria and the learning outcomes will apply.The expectation is that text-based assessment tasks … For more content click the Read More button below. Identities of individuals and organisations should be anonymised and confidences respected. Consent should be obtained from individual service users for use of any of their personal health information.

The School generic grading criteria and the learning outcomes will apply.
The expectation is that text-based assessment tasks will be submitted via the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

Identities of individuals and organisations should be anonymised and confidences respected. Consent should be obtained from individual service users for use of any of their personal health information.

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