Program Overview

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Care of the Compromised Newborn (Level 6, 20 credits)

Overview

This module will help you advance your practitioner skills and knowledge to enhance the care of infants and neonates that require additional care. It will foster a deeper understanding of the needs of the family within the context of changing health care provision.

Course Details

All about the course

This module will enhance your knowledge and skills to care for infants and neonates that require additional nursing/midwifery care for example, infants who are pre-term and have difficulty in maintaining temperatures, jaundiced infants, those with feeding difficulties, infants born to mothers who are diabetic and small for gestational age.

The module will look at:

• Portfolio development and reflective practice
• Midwifery terminology: pregnancy and neonatal complications
• Antenatal screening: fetal development/abnormalities
• Intrapartum monitoring
• Adaptation at birth: immediate care following birth
• Examination of the newborn
• Physiology and pathological processes of the common causes of neonatal problems requiring special care
• Diagnostic, therapeutic and technical procedures and techniques required in special care
• Resuscitation of the newborn
• Nursing care and management of the low birth weight and sick infant – assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care
• Holistic approach to the care of the neonate and family
• Communication: parents and multidisciplinary team

What will I be doing?

The module is delivered by consultants, advanced neonatal nurse practitioners and experienced neonatal nurses and midwifery lecturers. Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, seminars, directed study and clinical skills.

Assessment

• Essay: 2,000 words
• Reflective Essay: 2,000 words

Employment and Stats

What about after uni?

You can take this module as a standalone CPD module to enhance your career prospects. The module will enhance your knowledge and skills to care for infants and neonates that require additional nursing/midwifery care for example, infants who are pre-term and have difficulty in maintaining temperatures, jaundiced infants, those with feeding difficulties, infants born to mothers who are diabetic and small for gestational age.

Career Links

We work with over 100 health and social care organisations so our links with industry are very strong. These relationships will be of direct benefit to you because our academic team work in practice in some of these organisations at a senior level so are able to keep you at the forefront of developments in the sector which in turn help you provide a better service.

Requirements

What you need to know

This module starts in January or September and lasts up to two semesters.

You will need to be employed in an appropriate clinical setting and have the written consent of your manager to use the clinical area as a learning environment.

Entry requirements

• Previous study and experience
  • You will be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
  • Academic requirements equivalent to: 120 credits at Level 1 and 120 credits at Level 2, preferably with a minimum of three months post-registration experience.

Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL)

We welcome applications from students who may not have formal/traditional entry criteria but who have relevant experience or the ability to pursue the course successfully.

The Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) process could help you to make your work and life experience count. The APL process can be used for entry onto courses or to give you exemptions from parts of your course.

Two forms of APL may be used for entry: the Accreditation of Prior Certificated Learning (APCL) or the Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL).

Fees

How much?

Type of study | Year | Fees
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Part-time | 2025/26 | £965 per 20 credit module

Additional costs

You should also consider further costs which may include books, stationery, printing, binding and general subsistence on trips and visits.