Miss Eleanor Healer

• SHGM90M Starting Your Professional Development

  The aim of this module is to equip students with the necessary skills for work based learning, including self assessment, construction of a learning contract and compilation of a portfolio of evidence. This is the first module for students wishing to pursue the Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma and MSc Enhanced Professional Midwifery Practice . It will introduce students to the principles of work-based learning and the skills required to facilitate personal and professional development for themselves and for their colleagues.

• SHM128 Biological Dimensions of Pregnancy and Parenting

  This module introduces learners to the anatomy and physiology of childbearing, including the changes that occur during pregnancy, and some of the minor medical complications which can arise during pregnancy. This module also explores the anatomy and physiology of the breast and breastfeeding, and the anatomy and physiology of birth and the puerperium.

• SHM135 Working in the Maternity Care Team

  This module introduces learners to a deeper knowledge and understanding of the role of the maternity support worker in the wider health care team.

• SHM136 Pregnancy and the Professional Midwife

  This module will introduce the student to the role of the midwife as an accountable, autonomous, professional practitioner. It will introduce pregnancy as a normal physiological process and consider the midwife¿s role in working to promote positive outcomes.

• SHM137 The Journey to Birth

  This module will continue to build on the student¿s knowledge of pregnancy and introduce labour and birth as a normal physiological process, focusing on the midwife¿s role in working to promote positive outcomes.

• SHM138 Beyond Birth: the transition to parenthood

  This module will explore the role of the midwife in caring for women, newborn infants and their families during the transition to parenthood, whilst developing sound knowledge and understanding of normal anatomy, physiology and behaviours for both mother and baby throughout the postnatal period.

• SHM248 Additional Care for Women with Complex Needs

  This module will prepare students to identify and manage the care of women with additional care needs including management of both pre-existing and emergent conditions. The module will explore the evidence base to equip students to use current statistical data to inform their practice. Students will also further develop their understanding that the care needs of women and families may relate to physical, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual factors.

• SHM249 Parenting and Neonatal Care: supporting additional needs

  This module will further develop the students¿ knowledge and understanding of the role of the midwife in caring for women, newborn infants and their families during the transition to parenthood. This includes caring for women, babies and families where there are complications and additional care needs. This module will build on pre-existing knowledge and develop the student¿s holistic and critical approach to both the care of the newborn and the transition to parenthood.

• SHM326 Using research to inform my practice

  This module supports student midwives to build on the knowledge gained in their education to date, and explore research knowledge to develop skills in critical appraisal and be able to determine good quality evidence on which to base their practice. In order to provide the broad knowledge base required for practice this module also includes further bioscience and psycho social knowledge.

• SHM327 Preparing for Professional Practice

  This module will enable the student to explore and analyse healthcare policy making, how policy is implemented in practice and how the implementation may be managed in the clinical setting. The student will also consider essential aspects of management such as leadership, motivation and the management of change. The student will become familiar with the legal and ethical aspects of midwifery practice, reviewing Montgomery and applying legal and ethical principles to current practice issues.

• SHM329 Consolidating My Midwifery Practice

  This module will continue to develop the student¿s practical skills in midwifery and will take place on placement with mentors in midwifery and other health care settings.

• SHMM06 Systematic Physical Examination of the Newborn

  This module has been developed to prepare registered clinicians, directly involved with the care of the neonate, to undertake the systematic physical examination of the newborn. The module has been developed in accordance with the current UK newborn and infant physical examination (NiPE) standards. The systematic physical examination of the newborn screening tool is a skill that more and more midwives find to be a crucial asset to their already well-established knowledge base. Midwives who successfully acquire this qualification can provide the women they care for with an improved continuity of care whilst simultaneously supporting a more holistic approach. Midwives are unique in their ability to recognise deviations from the normal and are therefore arguably best placed to undertake this important aspect of screening for babies and their families.

• SHMM07 Human Lactation and the Breastfeeding Dyad

  This module is designed to develop underpinning knowledge of human lactation and expertise required to support the breastfeeding dyad. The module will focus on the social, cultural and political impact of human milk and breastfeeding as well as the impact of breastfeeding and human milk on current and long term health and wellbeing outcomes for mothers and babies.

• Senior Midwifery Lecturer, Swansea University

  2011 - Present

• Midwife, Portland Hospital, London

  2011 - 2011

• Integrated Midwife, Caerphilly Birth Centre, Caerphilly Minors Hospital, Aneurin Bevan Health Board

  2005 - 2010

• Rotational Midwife, University Hospital of Wales Cardiff

  2004 - 2005

Involved in Welsh Government strategic group, advising and contributing on breastfeeding support in Wales which resulted in the following Welsh National document

https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2019-06/all-wales-breastfeeding-five-year-action-plan-july-2019_0.pdf

Lead for 360 Collaborative Swansea University Breastfeeding Support Group.

• Consent and the law in organ donation in the UK

  2012

  Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

• Representing the innovative and collaborative nature of the University breastfeeding group

  2020

  Accepted at the 32nd International Confederation of Midwives Triennial Congress. Postponed due to COVID)

• Setting up a collaborative student led, breastfeeding group

  2019

  Once for Wales Midwifery Education Conference, Swansea University

• Survey of mothers feelings of attending the University breastfeeding group

  2018

  University Health Board & Swansea University Nursing & Midwifery Celebration Event, called ‘Lighting the Future’ Margam Park

• Collaborative and innovative nature of the university breastfeeding group

  2018

  Inaugural Health and Wellbeing Conference: From Ideas to Impact: Co-producing health and wellbeing with our community