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Course Overview

You’ll also study wider issues such as health promotion, public health, law and ethics, and professional issues. Midwifery is a skills-based profession and the development of your practical skills is an important part of this midwifery course.

As part of your Midwifery training, you’ll gain experience on clinical placements in a number of local health boards, each lasting several weeks. To improve your employability, you’ll develop knowledge and abilities to provide holistic care. You’ll gain some of these skills in our Clinical Simulation Centre on campus, or on clinical placements in midwifery and other specialist areas.

What you will study?

Year One: Midwifery Degree

  • Normal midwifery: This will focus on all normal aspects of midwifery practice. It will introduce you to the underpinning knowledge of childbearing from preconception, through an antenatal period, labour, postnatal and neonatal care.
  • Life Sciences in Midwifery: The topics covered will focus on some nursing but mainly on midwifery and related life sciences.
  • Professional Practice and Personal Development in Midwifery: The module will introduce aspects of professional practice and professionalism.
  • Fundamental skills: This module focuses on the development of understanding basic care and midwifery practice skills both in the clinical skills laboratory and practice in the clinical setting.Maternal and neonatal nutrition: Maternal diet and dietary concerns are introduced in this module along with the methods of infant feeding. The contents relating to infant feeding follow the guidance of the Baby-Friendly Initiative of UNICEF.
  • Normality in Clinical Practice: This module is a clinically based module enabling the development of basic care and skills in practice.

Year Two: Midwifery Degree

  • Art and Science of Midwifery: Developing the student’s expertise in the management of normal midwifery situations, recognising the abnormal and seeking appropriate interventions.
  • Complications and emergencies: Preparing the student for deviations from normal within midwifery care. Antenatal, labour, postnatal, and neonatal aspects will be covered.
  • Public Health in Midwifery: This will introduce the public health role of the midwife and communication skills, including counselling.
  • Complications in Clinical Practice: This module is a clinically based module enabling further development of midwifery care and more advanced skills in practice.

Entry Requirement 

Entry criteria below detail typical offers. Combinations of qualifications are acceptable and other qualifications not listed may also be acceptable.

Additional requirements include

Two satisfactory references (one to be added to your UCAS application, and a second written reference to be printed out and brought to the interview).

An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check on the Child & Adult Workforce and Child and Adult Barring Lists and subscription to the DBS Update Service (no offences are considered spent) and a satisfactory medical will be required once an offer has been made. We will contact you closer to your start date with details of how to obtain these.

Applications taken for only one branch of Nursing/Midwifery.

Typical A-Level Offer

BBB to exclude General Studies

Typical Welsh BACC Offer

Grade B and BB at A Level to exclude General Studies

Typical BTEC Offer

BTEC Extended Diploma Distinction Distinction Merit

Typical IB Offer

32 points to include 17 points at Higher Level to include Maths and English.

Typical Access to HE Offer

Science/Maths Diploma. Must complete 60 credits overall with at least 45 at level 3 and 15 at Level 2. Of the 45 credits at level 3, you will need a minimum of 24 Distinctions, 18 Merits and 3 passes.

Additional Requirements

GCSEs: The University normally requires a minimum 5 GCSEs including Mathematics/Numeracy and English at Grade C or Grade 4 or above, or their equivalent, but consideration is given to individual circumstances.

Equivalent qualifications considered are Essential Skills Level Two in Communication and Application of Number, or Functional Skills Level Two in English and Maths. (Must be achieved within the last 3 years)

Fees


This information was accurate on : 22/04/2021
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