1st Edition

Grading Student Midwives’ Practice A Case Study Exploring Relationships, Identity and Authority

By Sam Chenery-Morris Copyright 2021
300 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book investigates the education and assessment of student midwives in clinical practice, paying particular attention to how their practice is graded. Chenery-Morris brings primary research, which explores students, mentors, and midwifery lecturers perspectives of practice learning and its assessment, together with the international literature on clinical knowledge, teaching and... Read more

1.Midwifery, midwifery education and perspectives on grading student’s practice  2.Methodology  3.What counts as valid midwifery practice knowledge?  4.Transmission and acquisition of knowledge in clinical practice  5.The evaluation of learning.  6.Students with practice referrals or concerns  7.Conclusions about midwifery practice knowledge, relationships, identity and authority

 

Biography

Sam Chenery-Morris is an Associate Professor in Midwifery and Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching and Student Experience, Head of Nursing and Midwifery and Lead Midwife for Education at the University of Suffolk. She has worked clinically as a nurse and midwife, as an academic and researcher in her career. Her clinical and pedagogic practice has developed experientially and through academic study over the last 30 years. She has taught midwifery and research modules and been Course Leader for the BSc (Hons) Midwifery [shortened]. She was appointed as an Academic Midwife for the NICE Antenatal Care Clinical Guideline Committee in 2018. This guideline is the largest in the NICE portfolio and it will shape the care for almost 700,000 pregnant women a year in England and Wales when it is published in 2021.