Midwifery
Experience clinical placements and put theoretical knowledge into practice and provide holistic woman centred care.
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Key Course Details
The BSc (Hons) Midwifery degree covers all aspects of midwifery care, including wider issues such as health promotion, public health, law and ethics, and professional issues.
DESIGNED FOR
Compassionate individuals with a motivation to provide inclusive, evidenced based care to women and their families throughout the pregnancy continuum.
Career Paths
- Hospital Based Midwifery
- Community Midwifery
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Development Consultant
- Research
Skills taught
- Professionalism
- Autonomy
- Multi-professional Team Working
- Compassionate Leadership
- Decision Making
Course Highlights
Module Overview
The course is delivered 50% in theory and 50% in the practice learning environment. Knowledge and skills are layered over the three years gradually increasing in complexity to achieve competence as a midwife. Successful completion of the course results in eligibility to enter the professional register (NMC).
Year one introduces basic midwifery skills and provides a foundation relating to normal midwifery care. This includes promoting health and wellbeing, life sciences and professionalism. This year contributes to developing your communication skills and confidence within the clinical area.
Promoting Health and Wellbeing:
This module will enable you to explore the concepts of health promotion, prevention and protection, and to understand the role of the midwife in health promotion from a local, national and global perspective.
Developing Professionalism in Midwifery:
The module aims to introduce you to professionalism within midwifery practice, exploring the role of the midwife and the development of effective communication and interpersonal skills within midwifery.
Normal Midwifery Practice
The topics within this module will provide you with an understanding of key aspects of care underpinning normal midwifery.
Sciences Applied to Midwifery
This module aims to provide you with the knowledge and understanding of the anatomy, physiology, epigenetics, psychological, behavioural and cognitive factors related to midwifery practice.
Developing Confidence in Practice
This practice based module will prepare you to undertake safe and effective practice-based learning.
Year two introduces more complex midwifery practice for example managing emergency situations, professional and legal issues, and systematic examination of the newborn. Your evidence-based knowledge will develop throughout this year contributing to your ability to make informed decisions in practice.
Assessment and Management of Emergency and Complex Situations in Midwifery Practice:
The topics covered within this module will enable you to develop the knowledge and skills to identify, assess and manage aspects of midwifery and neonatal care where emergencies and complications arise.
Professional, Legal and Ethical Issues in Midwifery:
The module will enable you to develop, evaluate and apply knowledge of the professional, legal, and ethical issues relating to midwifery practice.
Evidence Based Practice: evaluating care within the context of practice
The module aim is to enable you to evaluate care within the context of midwifery practice by analysing and applying research, audit, and service evaluations findings to inform practice.
The Role of the Midwife in Examination of the Newborn
Topics covered within this module will enable you to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to competently undertake a full health and physical assessment of the neonate.
Informed Decision Making in Practice: The Midwife as a skilled practitioner
To enable you to further develop your knowledge, skills, competence, and confidence to deliver safe and effective midwifery care, demonstrating the ability to manage deviations in midwifery and neonatal care.
Topics such as compassionate leadership, change management, managing rapidly changing situation and the provision of holistic care are focus of year three. The knowledge and skills honed this year will develop your autonomy as a practitioner preparing you for registration as a midwife.
Compassionate Leadership, Excellence and Change Management in Midwifery Practice
This module will enable you to critically evaluate and lead midwifery practice and services, initiating and managing change to improve services and drive practice forward.
The Role of the Midwife in Providing Holistic Care
This module will enable you to develop the awareness and knowledge to assess, plan and implement holistic, inclusive care to childbearing individuals including meeting their bio-psycho-social and spiritual needs.
Midwifery Care for Childbearing Individuals with Additional Care Needs
To enable you to develop in-depth knowledge and understanding of the impact, assessment and management of physical and psychological health conditions and circumstances during the childbirth continuum, working effectively as part of the multidisciplinary team to plan and provide appropriate care in supporting the childbearing individual.
Assessing and Managing Midwifery Care in Rapidly Changing Situations
Topics will enable you to develop in-depth knowledge, understanding and skills in the assessment and management of the acute deteriorating health of the child bearer during the childbirth continuum, whilst working effectively as part of the multidisciplinary team.
Becoming an Autonomous Practitioner
To enable you to consolidate your knowledge, skills, competence, and confidence to become competent and confident midwifery practitioner throughout the childbirth continuum.
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Typical qualification requirements:
- A Level: BBB to exclude General Studies
- Welsh BACC: Grade B and BB at A Level to exclude General Studies
- BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma Distinction Distinction Merit
- Access to HE: Must complete 60 credits overall with at least 45 at level 3 and 15 at Level 2. Of the 45 credits at level 3, you will need a minimum of 24 Distinctions, 18 Merits and 3 passes.
Application advice:
We strongly advise applicants to take advantage of the advice available online, from demonstrating you have the relevant qualifications or experience, tips on writing your personal statement to advice on preparing for interview, we have a wealth of support and guidance available to applicants to ensure you are able to demonstrate that you have what it takes and make your application the best it can be. Please read our application advice.
Additional requirements include:
- All applicants are required to attend an interview. For further support on preparing for interview and what to expect at interview, please read our application advice.
- One satisfactory reference from someone who is able to comment on your attitude and approach to learning in a professional or academic sense.
- An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check on the Child & Adult Workforce and Child & Adult Barring List and subscription to the DBS Update Service is required. (Overseas equivalent required for non-uk applicants).
- A satisfactory medical will be required once an offer has been made. We will contact you closer to your start date with details of how to obtain these.
- The University normally requires a minimum 5 GCSEs including Mathematics/Numeracy and English at Grade C or Grade 4 or above, or their equivalent, but consideration is given to individual circumstances.
- Equivalent qualifications considered are Essential Skills Level Two in Communication and Application of Number, or Functional Skills Level Two in English and Mathematics. (Must have been achieved since 2016)
Closed for International applicants
Unfortunately, this course is not currently open to international applicants, please visit our course pages where you can find an alternative course choice.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
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Fees and Funding
£9,000
per year*£15,260
per year*Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
Your Midwifery training is delivered through a mixture of study days and block teaching weeks, with some days allocated to private study. A blended learning approach provides a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning.
Practice and theory are split evenly and you will have assessments for both in each module. Your skills and knowledge will be assessed in a variety of ways both within the clinical and academic settings. All assessments will enable you to develop skills that are essential for midwifery practice.
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Teaching staff
All academic staff have considerable clinical and academic experience. The team comprises of senior lectures, lecturers, midwifery skills trainer and associate lecturers who work in the clinical area alongside their academic roles.
Hourly paid lecturers with specific expertise are engaged to enhance course delivery.
USW also have a range of experts in their field such as genetics and pharmacology who facilitate on the course.
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Placements
You will gain experience as a student midwife on clinical placements in a number of local health boards, each lasting several weeks. This may require extended travelling, and late night and early morning shift patterns.
On placements, you will be fully supported and supervised by registered practitioners and the wider multi-professional team to care for child bearers in a variety of settings.
As part of the Midwifery degree, there is an opportunity in year 3 to undertake an elective placements within the UK or abroad.
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Facilities
Our state of the art Clinical Simulation Centre is set up to replicate a NHS environment, providing high fidelity clinical facilities for students on our Midwifery degree. We have advanced birthing and maternal simulators that can simulate various stages of pregnancy, including spontaneous vaginal birth, operative births and multidisciplinary working alongside nursing and allied health students.
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