NUR-30229 - Module Specification
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

This module is one of 3 within your final year of your programme and compulsory. It will encourage you to explore your personal professional practice and growth as you prepare for qualification and practice. It will facilitate you to critically reflect on your ability to work in partnership with others as a leader, team member and as an accountable and autonomous practitioner. The module will also foster an exploration of how you personally manage and sustain health during the challenging periods of professional practice and how you support the health and wellbeing of others.
You will develop a personal theme board charting your progress. This will form part of your contribution to an online action learning set and work collaboratively to share and discuss your personal theme boards. You will be supported by theory sessions and personal tutorials.

To explore your personal professional practice and growth in relation to the legal and professional expectations and challenges.
To evaluate your leadership abilities and issues arising from working as a team member and a leader.

Intended Learning Outcomes

critically reflect on their personal professional practice and growth as a midwife in relation to the professional regulatory legal framework and working in partnership with women and their families: 1
evaluate their ability to lead and manage midwifery care, working collaboratively, challenging colleagues, escalating concerns and influencing others: 1
critically reflect on their personal learning from complex and unpredictable situations, the management of near misses, critical incidents, major incidents and serious adverse events: 1
critically reflect on their strategies to support sustainable health and well-being which contribute to safe and effective practice for themselves and for others: 1
demonstrate the skills of digital and technological literacy needed to ensure safe and effective midwifery practice (standard of proficiency 1.23 & 5.12, NMC, 2019b): 1

Study hours

Breakdown of active learning hours: 95 hours
- In situ: 40hrs (Lectures, discussion, seminars, tutorials, workshops)
- Directed study: 55 hrs (electronic resources e.g. e-lfh, guided study

Breakdown of independent study hours: 55hrs
55 hrs -Wider reading, revision, assessment preparation, self directed study.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment