MMid Master of Midwifery (Pre-registration, Shortened)

Master of Midwifery (Pre-registration, Shortened) is a Full Time innovative and flexible work-based course for qualified adult nurses who want to gain midwifery skills at Master’s level. This programme will develop your skills and knowledge supporting your professional development as a responsive, confident midwife able to care for women and their babies. You will focus on holistic care and gain a sound knowledge of health assessments for childbearing women.

The aim of this course is to:

• Contribute to the national drive to address the current midwife shortage
• Prepare you for entry to the Midwife’s aspect of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) Professional Register
• Make you a committed midwife contributing to enhance health and social care through inter-professional collaboration
• Develop your skills to make you confident and competent to practice in a variety of settings
• Support you in developing transferable communication skills, improve your critical decision making and have you become familiar using associated information technology
• Provide you with all-round midwifery skills conscious of safe effective and competent care for women experiencing normal childbirth whilst recognising needs for appropriate referral to other health professionals
• Enable you to act as an advocate and facilitator of change using an evidence-based approach in theory and practice
• Support you to develop critical awareness and gain insight around current midwifery practice so you’ll begin to make sound judgments in complex situations.