Rights, Consent and Advocacy
Protect informed choice, human rights, confidentiality, equality and person-centred advocacy.
How to prepare for the NMC Midwifery CBT
Combine unit-safe calculation with newly qualified midwife judgement grounded in the Code, informed choice, continuity, physiology, timely escalation and collaborative care.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Valid consent is voluntary, informed and given by a person with capacity for that decision.
Exam cue: Explore the woman's understanding and preferences.
Concept 2
Advocacy includes challenging discrimination and enabling access to reasonable adjustments.
Exam cue: Use the least restrictive proportionate approach.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating disagreement as incapacity.
Guardrail: Do not choose a familiar task if it ignores deterioration, consent, medicines risk, scope, communication or follow-up.
Sharing information without a lawful care or safety basis.
Guardrail: Do not choose a familiar task if it ignores deterioration, consent, medicines risk, scope, communication or follow-up.
Memory anchors
What are the elements of valid consent?
Capacity, sufficient information and voluntariness.
Is capacity global?
No; it is decision- and time-specific.
What supports equitable care?
Reasonable adjustments and active challenge to discrimination.
When may confidentiality be limited?
On a lawful, necessary and proportionate basis.
What is advocacy in practice?
Enable the woman's voice and challenge barriers to her rights.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
Before a vaginal examination in labour, what is required for valid consent?
A woman with capacity refuses continuous fetal monitoring after receiving balanced information. What should the midwife do?
Answer all questions to submit.
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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