Study Guide

Objective

SPECIALISATION IN MIDWIFERY 1 8 cr KäER1
Objectives
- Students will know how to plan, provide, document and evaluate nursing as multiprofessional team members for pregnant and postpartum women, healthy newborns, newborns requiring intensive care and gynaecological patients.
- Students will learn to provide advice, guidance and treatment to patients and their family members in questions regarding care, pharmacotherapy, nutrition, exercise and hygiene in the field of sexual and reproductive health and midwifery.
- Students will comply with the ethics of midwifery and the applicable guidelines and legislation.
- Students will know how to support the patient’s empowerment.
- Students will master aseptic techniques.
- Students will learn to use the ward’s applications for electronic documentation and to document key issues in the database.

Content

Contents
- The study units are practical training units that meet the requirements of the EU/2005 directives.
- Supervised midwifery training in units providing nursing for pregnant and postpartum women, healthy newborns, newborns requiring intensive care and gynaecological patients

Teaching methods

Students take care of normal activities at the ward and study midwifery practices (planning, implementation, evaluation and documentation).

International connections

Working life oriented practices.
Combining theory to practice.
Learning by doing

Student workload

EXTEND OF PRACTICAL TRAINING 8 credits = 216h of student´s work of which
• Practical training orientation 2h
• Updating CV in Jobiili-platform and reservation of practical training
• Feedback lesson at school (after practical training) 2h
IN ADDITION SIMULATIONS every friday

STUDENTS TASKS AND DUTIES:
• Setting goals for practice (in written form)
• On-going evaluation after each shift to Optima platform and final evaluation discussion

OBS! All absent hours need to be compensated. Possible absent hours should be planned with supervisors at working place and at school (tutor teacher).

Content scheduling

CONTENT
Six weeks internship at student-led unit (maternity unit).

TIMING
Spring 2020 (3 weeks) (six weeks internship was suspended due to coronapandemia and will continue in autumn 2020) and autumn 2020 (3 weeks, during 9.11-29.11.2020)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

• Practical training will be evaluated with scale approved/failed (evaluation criteria can be found from messi)
To get approval student needs to perform on-going evaluations after each shift in Optima and attend final evaluation.
• Final grade can be given when supervisor and teacher have approved working hours and evaluations