Midwife as Expert (3 cr)
Code: 7K00EX82-3002
General information
Enrolment period
09.02.2024 - 31.07.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024
Credits
3 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Midwifery, Public Health Nursing
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing and Health Care, Midwifery
Teachers
- Elina Botha
- Maija Koivunen
- Marika Mettälä
- Raakel Viheroksa
Person in charge
Maija Koivunen
Groups
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20KL
Objectives (course unit)
The student
- masters the significance of sexual and reproductive health extensively in different contexts of midwifery
- is able to implement the midwifery theory in midwifery practice and also in the demanding special situations
- masters extensively the midwifery practices regarding relaxing, pain relief and maternal wellbeing support that promote the physiology and normality of pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal stage
Content (course unit)
- expertise of sexual and reproductive health in midwifery
- managing special situations of midwifery
- promoting pregnancy and labour physiology with midwifery practices
- midwifery oral final examination
- midwifery written final examination
Prerequisites (course unit)
The student must have completed 19KL-1010 studies.
Participation in Supervised Clinical Training courses 1-14.
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)
The student
- identifies the interfaces between the sexual and reproductive health and midwifery
- implements the midwifery theory restrictively and non-critically
- solves problems is mainly based on the evidence based knowledge and ethical rules
- is able to describe the midwifery practices
Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)
The student
- masters the significance of the sexual and reproductive health in the context of midwifery
- implements the midwifery theory diversely in decision-making
- is able to search the scientific evidence to develop the expertise in midwifery
- is able to implement the methods that promotes physiology in the custom-oriented way
Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)
The student
- masters the extensive significance of the sexual and reproductive health in the context of midwifery
- justifies the midwifery decision-making extensively, creatively and ethically and is able to develop own and group´s expertise and professional know-how
- is able to implement the scientific and professional evidence actively, extensively and in the customer-oriented way
Assessment scale
0-5