ABSTRACT
Becoming a midwife is the 16th series of 'Midwifery basics'targeted at practising midwives and midwifery students. The aim of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of professionalism on women's experience, consider the implications for midwives' practice and encourage midwives to seek further information through a series of activities relating to the topic. This article looks at the need for a Disclosure and barring service (DBS) check; issues that can arise through this are used to demonstrate challenges that may affect students during recruitment or while awaiting clearance. This shows how the public are protected during recruitment procedures.
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Employment/legislation & jurisprudence , Personnel Selection/legislation & jurisprudence , Security Measures/legislation & jurisprudence , Self Disclosure , Humans , Midwifery , Students, Nursing , United KingdomABSTRACT
Becoming a midwife is the 16th series of 'Midwifery basics' targeted at practicing midwives and midwifery students. The aim of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of professionalism on women's experience, consider the implications for midwives' practice and encourage midwives to seed further information through a series of activities relating to the topic. In this fourth article of the series, Jancis Shepherd discusses the issues of maintaining confidentiality, use of social media and veracity of students' practice assessment documents, to demonstrate the need to uphold the NMC Code (2015a) in clinical practice.
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Midwifery/methods , Midwifery/standards , Nurse Midwives/psychology , Nurse Midwives/standards , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Professional Role , State Medicine/standards , Adult , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Pregnancy , United KingdomABSTRACT
Becoming a midwife is the 16th series of 'Midwifery basics' targeted at practicing midwives and midwifery students. The aims of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of professionalism on women's experience, consider the implications for midwives' practice and encourage midwives to seek further information through a series of activities relating to the topic. In the final article of the series, Jancis Shepherd explores some of the challenges of becoming an accountable practitioner.
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Clinical Competence , Midwifery/education , Nurse Midwives/education , Nurse's Role , Professionalism , Adult , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Preceptorship , Pregnancy , United KingdomABSTRACT
Becoming a midwife is the 16th series of'Midwifery basics'targeted at practising midwives and midwifery students. The aim of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of professionalism on women's experience, consider the implications for midwives'practice and encourage midwives to seek further information through a series of activities relating to the topic. In the sixth article of the series, Jancis Shepherd explores issues of supporting students with health and specific learning difficulties while recognising the need for safe and competent practice.
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Health Status , Learning Disabilities , Midwifery/education , Students, Nursing , HumansABSTRACT
Becoming a midwife is the 16th series of'Midwifery basics' targeted at practising midwives and midwifery students. The aim of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of professionalism on women's experience, consider the implications for midwives' practice and encourage midwives to seek further information through a series of activities relating to the topic. In the seventh article of the series, Jancis Shepherd explores issues relating to academic integrity, the original presentation of work by students and the relationship with professional practice.
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Plagiarism , Students, Nursing , Humans , Midwifery/education , Professional MisconductABSTRACT
Becoming a midwife is the 16th series of'Midwifery basics' targeted at practising midwives and midwifery students. The aim of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of professionalism on women's experience, consider the implications for midwives'practice and encourage midwives to seek further information through a series of activities relating to the topic. In this fifth article of the series, Jancis Shepherd explores issues of supervision of student midwives in perineal suturing, the practical and legal implications of misadministration of medicines and accountability issues.
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Liability, Legal , Midwifery/education , Preceptorship , Students, Nursing , Female , Humans , Mentors , Preceptorship/legislation & jurisprudence , Pregnancy , Students, Nursing/legislation & jurisprudenceABSTRACT
Becoming a midwife is the 16th series of 'Midwifery basics' targeted at practicing midwives and midwifery students. The aim of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of professionalism on women's experience, consider the implications for midwives' practice and encourage midwives to seed further information through a series of activities relating to the topic. In this second article of the series, Jancis Sheperd considers why professionalism in an issue in maintaining public confidence, why midwives need to demonstrate good health and good character and how applicants are selected for midwifery courses to meet these attributes.
