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You will learn, under the supervision of the midwife, to further develop practice skills. This will be achieved by focusing on the care of women with complex obstetric needs and their infants during the intrapartum period and community placements. The content relates to the competencies detailed in the Competency Assessment Book.
This module continues to provide experience in midwifery practice in maternity care settings. You will have a practice supervisor, practice assessor and an academic assessor in each area as per the Standards for student support and assessment (NMC, 2017). The focus of the experience will be on learning to care with compassion for the child bearing woman with complex needs. You will have the opportunity to further develop midwifery and interpersonal skills (LOs1-4).
You will continue to record births and clinical examination of childbearing women and their babies as required by the European Midwifery Directives (2005) and the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC, 2019).
This includes undertaking online activities such as K2 Cardiotocograph package and medicines administration.

L01: Provide safe and reliable evidence-based care in complex situations.
LO2: Assess the woman’s health status through history taking, observation and the interpretation of findings.
LO3: With the midwife or appropriate practitioner, plan, assess and evaluate care for women and their families in a professional manner in accordance with The Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates (NMC, 2018)
LO4: Demonstrate a problem solving approach in the provision of evidence based care for women with complex needs.
LO5: Demonstrate competence in the achievement of NMC Standards of proficiency for midwives (NMC, 2019).