- Students will be motivated to continue independent learning, facilitating adaptation to the dynamically altering environment within society and maternity care to empower personal and professional development within variable and diverse maternity care settings
- Demonstrate capacity to evaluate, critically analyse and apply research related to the examination of Newborn babies. Demonstrate the application and integration of best practice informed by national and international research in order to advance midwifery practice and delivery.
- Use technology effectively to enhance midwifery practice and personal and professional development ensuring a contribution to learning, and the delivery of safe, evidence based maternity care.
- Apply critical, creative, reflective, independent thinking and problem solving to demonstrate clinical decision making and care is safe, effective, evidence based and woman and family-centered. Promote leadership to evolve this midwifery led initiative.
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with women, their families, advocates, the public, and professional peers in a competent, compassionate and professional manner that respects autonomy, dignity and privacy. Refer appropriately to the multi disciplinary team.
The module is offered as part of an MSc in Advanced Practice (Midwifery) programme or as a stand alone module at level 9. On successful completion of the module 10 credits (ECTS) will be awarded.
Autumn Trimester: Involves a combination of live and pre-recorded online lectures and tutorials. The live practical workshops may be attended either in-person or online.
Spring Trimester: Involves undertaking supervised clinical examinations of the newborn and successfully passing the final three, formal assessments of competence. All learning and assessment activities are recorded in the Examination of the Newborn Competency Assessment Tool - EoNCAT. A practical workshop is also offered, and may be attended either in-person or online.
Indicative Timetable
The majority of classes will be delivered online (usually every Tuesday PM) with 4 hybrid workshops (attendance can be either in-person or online) in the autumn trimester in UCD. A final hybrid workshop will be held during the spring trimester, before students complete their final assessments of clinical competence. It is encouraged that you attend the 'live' online and hybrid lectures and workshops when they are scheduled to ensure engagement, however, they will be recorded so that you can watch back at a later date should the need arise.
Assessment
Students will be assessed via an exam (MCQ) and one short written assessment in the autumn trimester. The EoNCAT document must be successfully completed during the spring trimester. Apart from recording the assessed newborn examinations, and regular meetings with the mentor-assessor, the EoNCAT also captures the midwife's structured reflections as their scope of practice expands during the clinical component.
Students will be presented with problem-based learning scenarios throughout the programme for guided discussion and reflection.
Does this programme have an official conferring ceremony?
Please note there is no online or in-person conferring ceremony for this programme. Your parchment will be posted to you by UCD Conferring.