Course Details in 2024/25 Session

Module Title	LI The Midwife as an Advocate
School	Institute of Clinical Sciences
Department	Nursing and Midwifery
Module Code	02 39911
Module Lead	Teresa Shalofsky
Level	Intermediate Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 2
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-6 hours Seminar-30 hours Tutorial-6 hours Practical Classes and workshops-6 hours Guided independent study-152 hours Total: 200 hours
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Description	The module aligns to NMC (2019) Standards of Proficiency for Midwives Domain 1 and 5 and will enable learners to develop a critical understanding of person-centred midwifery care that is culturally competent and respectful of diversity and difference. Learners will explore the impact of partnership working with women and childbearing people, families, and multi-professional teams in promoting individualised informed choice and care planning, and safer care. Learners will develop their professional understanding of advocacy that promotes and delivers positive outcomes and the professional and interpersonal skills required to enact this. Professional regulatory, legal and ethical theories and frameworks for midwives will be applied to the practice of advocacy and learners will consider the importance of adopting a human rights approach to care, of challenging substandard practice and structural inequalities throughout the childbirth continuum, and within interdisciplinary and multiagency teams. Using enquiry-based learning, learners will be supported to identify critically relevant research questions and to locate, appraise and apply evidence to inform learning.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Critically evaluate the impact of advocacy in midwifery practice on women, girls and wider society Apply critical understanding of professional, legal, ethical and rights-based concepts, principles and frameworks to individuals or families with complex or additional care needs who require advocacy to achieve person-centred care. Critically evaluate the ways advocacy for women, childbearing people and families can be enacted by midwives within the multi-professional team to facilitate individualised choice and care that is evidence based, informed by, and respectful of, diversity and difference. Apply reflexivity when evaluating the impact of personal, professional, and cultural identity on advocacy and care, and when considering and promoting personal and team strengths and avenues for support and development for self and others.
Assessment
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: 3000-word essay 100% Reassessment: Learners will resubmit failed component(s) 3000-word essay 100% All reassessments will be capped at 40%.
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