Development in Midwifery (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Content scheduling

Project Based Learning autumn 2025 - spring 2026

Objective

The purpose of the course
During the course, you will acquire the skills to plan and implement work life development projects. Together with the student team, you apply the knowledge of your professional field, incl. Sustainable development skills and the competence acquired through InnoFlash and Entrepreneurship courses (customer-oriented innovation, design and solution methods, entrepreneurial approach) to diverse development processes in working life.

Competences of the course
Professional competence in midwifery
Client competence in midwifery
Learning and information management competence
Entrepreneurship, innovation and work community skills
Internationalisation and communications competence

Learning outcomes of the course
After completing the course, you will be able to project work life development challenges and work on a project. You operate responsibly and customer-oriented in a diverse project team and networks. Through your interaction and the sharing of your own expertise, you promote the solution of working life development projects (including RDI projects). You apply sustainable development skills as well as innovation and project methods as part of development work. After completing the course, you will know, be able to evaluate and anticipate the development of midwifery.

Content

In this course you will learn how you can use innovation and project learning methods in midwifery. In the course you will familiarize yourself with the following themes:
Stages and tools of project planning and preparation of a project plan
Transforming the development challenge of working life into a project and implementing the project
Application of professional competence and sustainable development skills in project work
Working in a diverse team and working on the customer interface

Materials

Mäntyneva, M. (2016). Hallittu projekti.

Teaching methods

Project Based Learning, Future Fastory

Employer connections

Project Based Learning

Student workload

Project Based Learning 135 t

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Learning and information management competence:
- You can acquire and apply knowledge and methods of sustainable development and your field in a working life development project.
- You can evaluate and develop your own skills and share your skills in the project team.

Entrepreneurship, innovation and work community skills
- You will be able to draw up a project plan for the implementation of a given development project, using project planning tools and applying your innovation and entrepreneurship skills and methods.
-You can implement and evaluate a working life development project and act as a member of a project team.

Internationalisation and communications competence:
You will be able to act responsibly as a member of a diverse project team.
-You can engage in a constructive dialogue with the project team and project stakeholder representatives
-You can communicate in work-life interaction and communication situations and make appropriate use of different communication forms, channels and environments

Qualifications

The student masters the contents of anatomy and physiology as well as pharmacology and medicine related to the above mentioned nursing studies.
The student masters the methods of health promotion, internal medicine, mental health, substance abuse and crisis management, acute, operative nursing, family and pediatric nursing.
The student knows the principles of evidence-based decision making.

Further information

During the course, assessment is carried out on the principle of continuous feedback. Self-assessment and peer review also play a key role. Assessment is based on the course objectives and assessment criteria.