Community Midwifery – post
Community
Midwifery
– post
registration
registration
education
workshop
education workshop
Dorothy Patterson Midwifery Lecturer (Education)
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Change is positive
“Change is the law
of life and those
who look only to the
past or present are
certain to miss the
future."
John F. Kennedy
Chinese symbol for change is a
combination of 2 characters:
one for chaos, second for
opportunity.
Workshop Outline
Aim – To gather information from participants on their learning
needs working in community and their views on the possible
content of a community midwifery module.
• Provide a background to making the case for change in service
• What is currently available in QUB post-registration prospectus
• What is further needed to meet learning needs
Maintaining Knowledge and skills
NMC Code: Standards of conduct, performance and ethics
for nurses and midwives (NMC,2008) states
• “Keep your skills and knowledge up to date”
• “You must have the knowledge and skills for safe and
effective practice “
• “You must take part in appropriate learning and practice
activities that maintain and develop your competence and
performance.”
Continuing professional development (CPD)
Continuing professional development
(CPD) opportunities, which are
academically robust and professionally
relevant, should be available to all
midwives based on local need. “
Midwifery 2020, ( DH, 2010 p.37)
Policy background to change Midwives should have a visible place in a community setting where women can choose to access
them as the first point of contact.
Midwives are the lead professional for women with no
complications, and the coordinator of care for all women.
Women should have access to
effective, locally accessible antenatal care . Maternity care should be women centred. Access
to effective, locally accessible antenatal care . Integrated working between professionals
Key messages from policy documents
impacting on care in the community
• Midwives should have a visible place in a community
setting where women can choose to access them as the
first point of contact.
• Midwives are the lead professional for women with no
complications, and the coordinator of care for all women.
•
Models of maternity care should be women centered,
promoting normality and continuity of care and reducing
unnecessary interventions
Continued
•
Women should have access to effective, locally
accessible antenatal care
•
Services will regard home as the hub
•
Integrated working between professionals to plan and
deliver care
•
Hospital care provided but discharging women into the
care of local services
Example of Modules available in QUB Continuing
Professional and Academic Development 2013 - 2014
• Antenatal and neonatal
screening
• Family planning and
reproductive sexual health
• Balancing choices and risks
• Health promotion in clinical
practice
• Breast feeding management
and promotion
• Challenge of change
• Childbirth and normality
• Childbearing and loss
• Clinical risk management
• Challenges across the
childbirth trajectory
• Independent study module
•
Midwifery Examination of
the new born
• Perspectives of familycentred HSC
• Practice development
• Ultrasound scanning
Group work
1.
Discuss what your educational needs are in order to facilitate the
current changes being made in service delivery of maternity care.
2.
Discuss what can be facilitated from existing QUB post registration
prospectus.
3.
Discuss what can be facilitated from existing in service training
4.
Discuss what new initiatives you would like to see developed to meet
your learning needs.
5.
Would this include a community module ? If so provide some
suggestions as to its content
6.
Is additional clinical experience required?
7.
What are the challenges ?
References
Department of Health (2010) Midwifery 2020 Delivery Expectations. London: HMSO.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/midwifery-2020-delivering-expectations
DHSSPS (2011) Transforming Your Care: A review of Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland. Belfast:
HMSO.
http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/transforming-your-care-review-of-hsc-ni-final-report.pdf
A Maternity Strategy for Northern Ireland 2012-2018
http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/maternity-strategy.htm
Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008)Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives .
London:NMC.
http://www.nmc-uk.org/Nurses-and-midwives/Standards-and-guidance1/The-code/The-code-in-full/
QUB School of Nursing and Midwifery (2013) Continuing Professional Development Prospectus.
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofNursingandMidwifery/StudyattheSchool/OurCourses/ContinuingProfessi
onalDevelopment/