Midwifery (Long)

Program Overview

The three-year Long MM Midwifery program at Edinburgh Napier University equips students with the knowledge and skills to become autonomous midwives. Through a student-centered approach combining theoretical and practical components, the program emphasizes safe midwifery care, cultural competence, leadership skills, and research engagement. Graduates are qualified for a variety of midwifery roles, including antenatal, intrapartum, neonatal, and postnatal care.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

• Overview: The three-year Master of Midwifery program aims to prepare students for practice as accountable and autonomous midwives.
It emphasizes providing safe and effective midwifery care, developing interpersonal and cultural competence, fostering leadership skills, and promoting research, audit, and service evaluation.
• Objectives:
• Mastery of knowledge and skills for safe and effective midwifery care.
• Development of interpersonal and cultural competence for effective collaboration.
• Enhancement of self-capability in midwifery leadership, particularly in quality, safety, and efficacy.
• Demonstration of commitment to ongoing research, audit, and service evaluation for professional learning, policy, and practice.
• Program Description: The program utilizes a dynamic, student-centered approach to learning, teaching, and assessment.
It reflects the continuum of pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum, and the early weeks of a newborn's life.
• Typical Entry Point: January.
• International Students: International students are unable to enroll in this program.
• Selection Process: The program has limited places, and applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
The selection process includes a Confident Caring Assessment (CCA).

Outline:

• Structure: The three-year program is divided into theoretical and practical components, each comprising 50% of the program.
• Course Schedule:
• Theoretical Content:
Delivered online using interactive approaches, including lectures, tutorials, self-directed learning, and workshops.
• Simulation and Practice: Conducted face-to-face in the Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre prior to placement experiences.
• Clinical Placements: Undertaken with NHS Health Board partners in Lothian, Forth Valley, Fife, and Borders.
Students may be placed in any of these areas.
• Elective Placement: A four-week elective clinical placement can be organized at home or abroad.
• Modules:
• Care and Examination of the Newborn Level 10 (MID10107):
Focuses on providing evidence-based and physiologically appropriate care to newborns, including assessment, identification of normal and abnormal findings, multi-disciplinary team working, and referral processes.
• Complex Care of Women and Newborn Infants Level 10 (MID10110): Examines the anatomy and pathophysiology of midwifery complications affecting both mother and newborn, emphasizing evidence-based care and collaborative working within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Evaluating Midwifery Practice Project (MID11127): Includes reflective practice, positive birth skills, moral and ethical issues, autonomous midwifery, inter-professional working relationships, theories and frameworks in midwifery practice, professional, legal, and ethical agendas, and national and international perspectives on pregnancy and childbirth.
• Management of Obstetric Emergencies and Midwifery Care (MID11124): Focuses on the management of complications during the childbearing period, including antenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum emergencies.
• Midwifery Practice: Art and Science Level 10 (MID10109): Explores the philosophical underpinning of professional practice, models and approaches to midwifery care, anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system, immune system, and lactation, and the principles of universal and additional midwifery care.
• Midwifery Practice: Leadership and Personalised Care (MID11123): Examines the role of the midwife in providing woman-centered care within a multidisciplinary, organizational, and policy context, focusing on the midwife as an educator, colleague, leader, and assessor.
• Midwifery Practice: Part One (Long) (MID10108): Introduces students to midwifery practice, encouraging them to utilize transferable skills and develop clinical and interpersonal skills in maternity care settings.
• Midwifery Practice: Part Three (Long) (MID11118): Consolidates professional practice and preparation for registration as a midwife, focusing on developing clinical and interpersonal skills in maternity care settings.
• Midwifery Practice: Part Two (Long) (MID11132): Develops midwifery practice and progress through the program, focusing on developing clinical and interpersonal skills in maternity care settings.
• Midwives and Public Health (MID11129): Explores the protection and promotion of the health of individual women, babies, and their families, examining different approaches to promoting health and addressing public health concerns.
• Promoting Excellence in Midwifery Research and Practice (MID11121): Explores the philosophies underpinning professional midwifery practice, examines core academic skills, introduces social theories, and focuses on evidence-based practice, research methods, and ethics.

Assessment:

• Methods: A variety of assessments are used, including academic essays, reports, written examinations, and ongoing assessments in clinical placement.
• Criteria: Assessments are designed to evaluate students' knowledge, skills, and abilities in relation to the program's learning outcomes and the NMC Standards of Proficiency for Midwives.

Teaching:

• Methods: The program utilizes a variety of teaching methods, including online lectures, tutorials, self-directed learning, workshops, and face-to-face simulation and practice sessions.
• Faculty: The program is taught by experienced and qualified midwifery educators and practitioners.
• Unique Approaches: The program emphasizes a student-centered approach to learning, incorporating interactive online learning platforms, simulated clinical environments, and real-world clinical placements.

Careers:

• Potential Career Paths: Graduates are qualified to apply for roles within both clinical and social care settings as midwives.
• Opportunities: The program prepares students for a variety of midwifery roles, including antenatal, intrapartum, neonatal, and postnatal care.
• Outcomes: Graduates will be equipped with the knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary to provide compassionate, evidence-based, and patient-centered midwifery care.

Other:

• Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre: Students will spend a significant portion of their time developing skills in the simulated environment of the Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre.
• Scottish Government Strategy: The program aligns with the Scottish Government's strategy to re-shape maternity services in Scotland.
• Mandatory Costs: Students are expected to pay for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (£120).
• Confident Caring Assessment (CCA): All applicants are required to sit the CCA, which assesses the attributes expected of a nurse/midwife.
• Previous Nursing Students: Students who have already studied a Nursing degree are unlikely to receive funding for a second Nursing degree.

| --------- | | Students from | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | | Scotland | £1,820 | £tba | | England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Republic of Ireland | £9,250 | £tba | | Overseas and EU | £16,680 | £tba |