Technical Skills Workshops 2008 to 2011

This page is for those educators involved in establishing and providing Technical Skills Workshops.

Technical Skills Workshops are one of the compulsory components of the Recertification Programme.   Participation in the Recertification Programme enables registered midwives to demonstrate that they are competent to practise within the Midwifery Scope of Practice and thereby satisfy the Midwifery Council that they meet the standards in order to be issued with an annual practising certificate.   The full Recertification Programme can be viewed on another page of this website. Click here to link to it. As part of the Recertification Programme, every midwife is required to complete a Technical Skills Workshop once in each three year period.

In conjunction with midwifery educators, the Midwifery Council has defined the content of Technical Skills Workshops for the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2011.  Courses will need to be sent to the Midwifery Council for approval. The document below provides details as to the desired learning outcomes, required content the criteria for approval in the form of an approval template which providers can use to assist them gain approval of their workshops.

Technical Skills Workshop Template 2008-2011 Microsoft Word Document: 328 KB, 48 seconds @ 56kbps

Resources.

Educators have agreed to share resources for use in the Workshops. These will be added to this page as they become available.  

Supplied by Lindsay

SBAR BMJ links Adobe Acrobat Document: 199 KB, 29 seconds @ 56kbps

  

Supplied by Sally 

MacLennan et al 2005 Adobe Acrobat Document: 62.1 KB, 9 seconds @ 56kbps

 

Women & Birth, New Cascade paper 2007 Adobe Acrobat Document: 430 KB, 63 seconds @ 56kbps

Epidural and position, Leiberman et al 2005 Adobe Acrobat Document: 475 KB, 70 seconds @ 56kbps

Caesarian section, Tracy et al 2007 Adobe Acrobat Document: 148 KB, 22 seconds @ 56kbps

Birth Center paper, Tracy et al 2007 Adobe Acrobat Document: 115 KB, 17 seconds @ 56kbps

Epidurals & rate of spont. lacerations, Albers Adobe Acrobat Document: 87.6 KB, 13 seconds @ 56kbps

BMI & lacerations, Albers et al 2006 Adobe Acrobat Document: 80.4 KB, 12 seconds @ 56kbps

Minimising genital trauma, Albers et al 2007 Adobe Acrobat Document: 102 KB, 15 seconds @ 56kbps

Non supine positions for birth, Albers et al 2004 Adobe Acrobat Document: 4.41 MB, 11 minutes @ 56kbps

Physiological management, Albers 2007 Adobe Acrobat Document: 163 KB, 24 seconds @ 56kbps

Evidence based midwifery, Albers 2007 Adobe Acrobat Document: 48.7 KB, 7 seconds @ 56kbps

Safety of VBAC, Albers 2005 Adobe Acrobat Document: 65.4 KB, 10 seconds @ 56kbps

Monitoring fetus in labour, Albers 2001 Adobe Acrobat Document: 52.6 KB, 8 seconds @ 56kbps

All Wales Normal Birth Pathways, Bibliog. & Refs. Microsoft Word Document: 35.5 KB, 5 seconds @ 56kbps