Assessment Details Developing Midwifery Practice.

And its Vital that you add the reference list and it should be Harvard system.

Its a research based essay, and the essay as a whole is a literature review of the chosen midwifery skill. It needs to critique the research articles and analyses its findings and come up with recommendations for practice as midwifery care has to be evidenced based.This will be folder of evidence of 2,500 words and should include:

1. An in-depth critical analysis of the published literature underpinning the midwifery skill chosen;

a. The skill is: Midwife's role in teaching positioning and attachment for successful breastfeeding.

2. The critique of research studies thus utilising technical, analytic and evaluative skills.

a. databases to be searched are:

CINHAL
COCHRANE
MEDLINE

MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE, or any other science related databases but the ones i listed must be looked at first.

3. An analysis demonstrating the application of the findings from your in-depth critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation to midwifery practice;

a. At least 6-7 pieces of research must be critiqued and analysed

The purpose of this assessment is to enable you to experience, at an early stage of your midwifery course, the sense of personal achievement from getting work published along with the knowledge that others will benefit from your efforts. It is important that midwives can help create new ideas, advance theory, challenge widely held views, and influence others and that you learn to support your profession by adding to its body of knowledge.

To select an appropriate skill you should consider what is likely to be considered timely. Articles that are unique, forward thinking or that reflect current interests are often the most effective, but sometimes the profession can benefit from revisiting a topic that has sunk to a lower profile and that needs reconsideration. Study the journals. All provide clues to the type of content areas or topics being accepted. Study the techniques of writing and the writing style expected for your chosen journal. Note, too, that wordiness is not appreciated. It is important to be succinct; to convey maximum meaning with minimum words but to also write clearly so that readers of every level can benefit from your message.

Apart from referencing style and author details (see below) the final journal article should be presented in the format required by your chosen journal. The selected journal should be clearly stated on the title page of your article and you should adhere to the journal's required word count.

Pages should be numbered concurrently throughout and referenced. A reference list should be included.

Regardless of the preferred referencing style of the journal your referencing should be consistent with the Harvard referencing system.

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Please provide a summary. This should be in the form of a structured abstract, outlining your rationale for performing the literature review, what you did (your search methods), what you found, the ramifications for practice and your practice recommendations. The summary should be no more than 350 words long, on one side of A4, 1½ line spacing and in Arial font, size 12

Presentation

Please provide a title page. This needs to include: title of chosen area of study, the module title, module code, your student number but not your name and the word count. If your assignment is 10% or more than the word limit, the mark will be reduced by 10%.

Essay format: 1½ line spacing, Arial font, size 12 and pages should be numbered. Within your document please ensure your student number, module abbreviation and intake (i.e. 2021234 DMP Oct 13) are included in the footer on each of your pages.

The content needs to be referenced throughout and an accurate reference list should be included at the end of your essay.

Care needs to be taken to ensure English spelling rather than American English spelling of words is used. All abbreviations need to be written in full when first mentioned, with the abbreviation in brackets next to the full terminology. The abbreviation can then be used within the remainder of the essay. For example: spontaneous rupture of membranes (SROM).

Students are advised to proof read the essay, or have a person who understands formal English to proof read the essay for them prior to submission. Sentences need to be grammatically correct and construction needs careful attention. Make sure that every sentence is making one point that has not been said before. Every sentence should have a subject, a verb and an object. Words (apart from those in common usage, for example, conjunctions/connectives) should not be repeated within the one sentence and preferably not in the subsequent or the preceding sentence. Use a thesaurus to find an alternative word. Remember that short, concise sentences are almost always better than long, complicated ones. Try to avoid non-specific words if possible; for example "nice", "good", "very", "vast". Please avoid the use of "etc".

Each paragraph should have only one theme. Each paragraph should contain more than one sentence, but not be too long. About two or three paragraphs to a page is preferable. Having a paragraph extending over more than one page is too long. Leave one line space (and one only) between paragraphs.

Do not use quotations excessively. Consider rewriting in your own words. Quotations should always be referenced with page numbers and discussed. Do not use them to write your work for you. If a quotation is a phrase and can be placed within a sentence of the text it should go within the text in inverted commas. Quotations of a sentence or more should be outside the text, one space below the preceding text and one space above the following text. In this case the quotation should be single spaced and indented from each margin by approximately 3.5cms.

Remember that confidentiality is essential. This means avoiding using the names of real people, maternity units, Trusts, teams within the unit or services that support the unit in any way.