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Health Sciences
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Midwifery
COURSE CODES:
PLACES 2011:
POINTS 2010:
DEGREE AWARDED:
TR913
25
435*
B.Sc. (A.Obs.)
TR914
(Mature)
15
168
Special Entry Requirements:
Leaving Certificate
O/HD3
Mathematics
O/HD3
In one of biology,
physics, chemistry,
physics/chemistry
or agricultural
science
GCSE
Grade C Mathematics
Grade C In one of biology,
physics or
chemistry
Note for mature applicants:
Applications must be received by the CAO by 1 February
of the proposed year of entry. You are not required to
submit a mature-student supplementary application form
to Trinity College. However, you will be invited to attend a
written assessment by the Nursing Careers Centre.
Screening (including a medical) and vaccination will be
organised by the health service provider responsible for
the practice area where you will be on placement.
See page 202 for vaccination requirements with regard
to Hepatitis B, Hepatits C and Tuberculosis.
Garda Vetting:
Students will be required to undergo Garda vetting.
See page 27 for further details.
What is a Midwife and midwifery?
The term ‘midwife’ means ‘with woman’. The concept of
partnership between the woman and the midwife is fundamental
to midwifery practice and is based on mutual trust, support and
collaboration. The midwife uses midwifery skills to provide care
that is individual to each woman and recognises the woman’s
ownership of her birth experience. Care for women experiencing
a physiological pregnancy and birth is the core of practice of the
midwife. The midwife is the key professional providing continuity
of care and promoting choice and control to women in pregnancy
and birth, and to women and their babies following birth.
Course content
This four-year programme will be offered in partnership with two
linked maternity care providers: The Coombe Women’s Hospital
and The Rotunda Hospital. The first three years combine
learning in university and midwifery practice in the maternity
hospitals and will take place during the academic year with the
usual academic holidays. The final year will include a 36-week
period of internship in midwifery practice.
This programme will provide you with the knowledge and skills to
meet the needs of women and their families in an individualised,
culturally sensitive manner. There are two components to the
midwifery degree programme – a theoretical component and a
midwifery practice component.
Like all professional courses in health sciences, Midwifery
places extra demands on students’ time. It can be demanding,
both physically and emotionally and so you should ensure that
you are in a position to fully engage with the course during your
time in College.
Theoretical component
The theoretical component of the course will be taught in the
Trinity College School of Nursing and Midwifery, D’Olier Street
and in the Trinity Centre for Health Sciences in St. James’s
Hospital. Teaching methods include lectures, small-group
teaching, tutorials and practice classes. You will typically spend
3-4 days in theory classes each week and each day will consist
of approximately 6 hours per day in lectures, tutorials and
laboratory practicals.
The programme content will cover such areas as:
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Midwifery practice – knowledge and skills
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Communication and interpersonal skills
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Professional, personal, ethical and legal issues
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Knowledge base for midwifery practice to include: biological
sciences, psychology, pharmacology, non-pharmaceutical
approaches
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Social theory for midwifery practice
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Research
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Health promotion
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Maternal and social care services in Ireland