This essential handbook helps midwifery students to make the most from their time studying. It clearly explains the core learning skills they will need right from the start of the course, such as academic writing, placement learning and understanding theoretical concepts. It also introduces more advanced skills, such as reflection, research, evidence-based practice, writing a dissertation and complex decision-making. It shows why these important skills are essential both to succeed at university and beyond into practice.

Developing Critical Analysis and Understanding

Developing Critical Analysis and Understanding

Developing critical analysis and understanding

This chapter will help you to meet the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA, 2008) requirement that students studying at Level 5 are able to:

  • demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the well-established principles of their area(s) of study and of the way in which those principles have developed;
  • use a range of established techniques to initiate and undertake critical analysis of information, and to propose solutions to problems arising from that analysis;
  • effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms to specialist and non-specialist audiences, and deploy key techniques of the discipline effectively

NMC Standards for Pre-Registration Midwifery Education

This chapter will address the following competencies:

Domain: Achieving quality care through evaluation and research

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