Joint Annual Performance Review 2007 - Ministry of Health

Results: Pre-service Training (4)
The 1-Year Primary Nurse-midwife curriculum:
• There is need to increase the amount of midwifery hours and
content and increase the time for clinical hands-on experience, by
reducing the number of hours for unnecessary nursing procedures.
• Midwifery content (both theory and practice) should be spread
throughout the full duration of the programme and not confined only
to term 3, to avoid overloading clinical areas in Term 3 due to the
overlap with the 1-year Post basic-nursing (3+1) midwifery students.
• Having a more flexible allocation, one where smaller groups of
students can rotate through clinical areas, ideally more than once
(so they can follow the principles of adult learning and have
opportunity for repeated reflective practice) would be highly
beneficial.
• A career plan needs to be devised for PMWs that will allow them to
progress and develop the full competencies of a midwife and be
able to upgrade to secondary midwife
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Results: Pre-service Training (5)
The 1-Year Post basic Nursing (3+1) midwifery
curriculum:
• Need some modifications.
• Evaluate clinical competencies of graduates and consider if
the clinical allocation could not be more integrated
throughout the duration of the course and if experience of
normal births could be include much earlier in the program
than it is at present.
• More focus is required on the skills that will save lives,
especially care of newborns, newborn resuscitation and on
interpersonal skill development- to foster a more womanfriendly
approach to service delivery
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