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Stellenbosch University

Bachelor of Nursing with Honours in Advanced Midwifery and Neonatal Nursing

The Bachelor of Nursing with Honours in Advanced Midwifery and Neonatal Nursing in Health Professions is offered by Stellenbosch University.

Program Length: 1 YEAR.

Bachelor of Nursing with Honours in Advanced Midwifery and Neonatal Nursing offered by the Stellenbosch University at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

The purpose of the programme is to strengthen and deepen your knowledge and expertise in midwifery. It enables you as a Advanced Midwifery/Neonatal Nursing student to apply critical reflection and to develop by means of systematic engagement with current thinking, practice and research methods in your field or discipline, to ultimately enhance women’s health. The programme provides a high level of theoretical engagement, sound clinical judgement and intellectual independence, as well as the ability to relate knowledge to a range of contexts while rendering professional and competent midwifery care.

Programme content

Principles of Advanced Nursing Practice (10)

Principles and Processes of Advanced Midwifery (20)

Principals and Processes of Advanced Neonatal Nursing (20)

Clinical Foundations: Advanced Midwifery and Neonatal Nursing (30)

Research Assignment: Nursing (30)

Assessment and examination

• A variety of formative and summative assessment methods are used. You are assessed individually by means of:
  • assignments;
  • the application of research principles in a research project;
  • patient case presentations;
  • clinical rounds;
  • case studies;
  • clinical assessment;
  • written tests and examinations; and
  • assessment of psychomotor skills in your relevant specialist area.
• The results of the assessment must indicate that outcomes have been achieved. Your assessment as nursing specialist in practice must indicate the successful attainment of appropriate academic depth, focus and integration of theory and practice.
• Each module is assessed separately with a minimum pass mark of 50%.
• The final mark for the programme is calculated on the basis of the relative weight of each module, as indicated by the credit value for each module.
• You must get a final mark of 75% to obtain the degree cum laude.