Midwifery Professional Development

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate the ability to take responsibility for your own lifelong learning, including consideration of risk assessment, access to variable resources, professional/legal requirements and professional multidisciplinary communication to achieve your activity.
• Evaluate your own learning style and needs to facilitate your development as a competent and compassionate midwife, and in partnership with the programme team identify and plan your engagement in an educational activity to meet these needs.
• Analyse the evidence base appropriate to your identified development activity to justify your activity, developing specific self-directed learning objectives to support your learning.
• Demonstrate the achievement of your learning objectives and the dissemination of this to others.
• Reflect on and evaluate your learning from the activity and discuss the extent to which it has helped you meet the module aim, and how it will inform your future midwifery practice and personal and professional development.

Professional codes and their application in various settings

Learning styles

Reflective practice

Lifelong learning

Risk assessment

Communication

Multidisciplinary/agency working/negotiation skills

This will vary to reflect learning activity undertaken but is likely to include a combination of some of the following:

• Technology enhanced learning activities
• Self-directed study
• Seminar activity
• Tutorial support
• Interdisciplinary and service user engagement

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Development of a learning contract

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Formative learning contract will be developed in conjunction with peer and academic support and feedback will be integrated into the development activity.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.