91122 - Innovative Models of Caring and Ethics in Midwifery (RN)

Learning outcomes

• By the end of the course, the student should possess knowledge and skills in the maternal and child care field to identify needs, manage pathways, ensure integration and networking, gender care and identify the appropriate care model.

Course contents

• Introduction to midwifery science: peculiarities of midwifery intervention nationally and internationally.
• The organizational environment and context of midwifery care in Italy: hospital area Hub and Spoke systems and family counseling area.
• DM 70/2015 Regulation defining qualitative, structural, technological and quantitative standards of hospital care: the Clinical Care Network model for Neonatology and Birth Points.
• Models and standards for the development of Territorial Care in the National Health Service: "Services for the health of children, women, couples and families."
• Models of women's health promotion and family and community midwifery.
• Determination of criteria indicators and quality standards in midwifery care and organization.
• Organizational models: general principles.
  The Department: the departmental organizational model of the maternal and child area.
• Care models and guidance: from WHO, NICE , LG-SNL-ISS Guidelines and new updates.
  Conceptual and operational models in the obstetric discipline.
• National and international obstetric organizational models: Italy, England, Canada, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands .
• Obstetrically managed functional areas the Birth Center model: Free-standing Units and Along-side Units , criteria and standards.
• Midwifery care and the concept of Midwifery Sensitive Outcomes.
• Maternity Health Policies and Models: "Ethical Framework for Respectful Maternity Care during Pregnancy and Childbirth."
• Project management in healthcare: design principles in the Maternal and Child Health Area, pathways and insights for implementing organisational models.
• Methodological notes on ‘Project Work’ as an active experimentation of concepts learnt in the course of teaching.

• Operational/application tools of project work and classroom simulations through viewing/discussion of project work developed in the maternal and child area in a real examined context.

  
  

Readings/Bibliography

• Reference bibliography will be given during the course.
• Teaching materials provided by the instructor.

Teaching methods

• Lectures with use of power point and flipchart
  Classroom presentation and dicussion of clinical and/or organizational cases.
• Analysis of National and International models and examples in the maternal and infant area and guided discussion.

Assessment methods

- The ability to argue, to link and to synthesise information clearly and comprehensively will be considered in the evaluation of the project work.

On the basis of the above criteria, the evaluation will be divided into thirtieths:

- Preparation on a very limited number of topics covered in the course and ability to analyse which only emerges with the help of the lecturer, expression in language which is correct overall, insufficient ability to critically review → 18-19;

- Preparation on a very limited number of topics covered in the course and ability to analyse independently only on purely executive issues, little ability to apply knowledge to concrete cases, expression in barely correct language → 20-24;

- Fully comprehensive preparation on the topics covered in the course, ability to make autonomous choices of critical analysis, mastery of specific terminology, ability to link topics to concrete cases and other disciplines → 25-29

• The student will be required to take a written exam with preparation of a project work on the implications in 'care of organizational models in maternal and child care and their impact in the health care system.
• Predefined project work preparation timelines correlated with the appeal dates defined by the integrated course.

Assessment criteria:

The examination ‘exam involves the structuring of a project work within the discipline that aims to test the student's ability to apply the knowledge learnt and to make the necessary logical-deductive connections.

In particular, the following will be assessed in increasing order of importance

- the level of planning achieved in the preparation of the project work;

- the relevance of the objectives and of the chosen project/pathway to the profile of the Master's Degree student in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences

- the degree of achievement of the expected training objectives;

- the activities proposed in the project to achieve these objectives.

- The criteria for assessing the project are: clarity and correctness of presentation, relevance and coherence of content

- organisation of the arguments, substantiation of statements, ability to reflect and rework the experience using also the learned theoretical models;

- use of appropriate literature.

- Fully comprehensive preparation on the topics addressed in the course, ability to make autonomous choices of critical analysis and linking, excellent critical and autonomous thinking skills, full command of the specific terminology and ability to argue and self-reflect → 30-30L.

• Each student will receive a written report from the lecturer individually on the evaluation of the project work with descriptive and personalised assessments.
  

 

Teaching tools

• Video projector for power point presentations
  Flip chart.
• Materials with case studies in the maternal and child area, prepared by the lecturer.

Office hours

See the website of Marina Carfagna