School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    High Dependency Care During Childbirth
  • Unit Code

    MID6107
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Di BLOXSOME

Description

This unit is the third and final theory unit which will be studied online. MID6107 is a co-requisite/ pre-requisite for MIP6103 Midwifery Clinical Practice 3. This unit as the third of three theory units will build on the foundational concepts explored in MID6105 and MID6106 Theory for Midwifery Care 1 and 2. This unit introduces deviations from normal physiology and will build on knowledge and experience from MID6106: Theory for Midwifery Care 2. MID6107 will focus the midwife’s role in working with the multidisciplinary maternity care team providing evidence-based care for women/persons with high-risk, complex pregnancy and birth conditions.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed MID6105:Theory for Midwifery Care 1, MID6106: Theory for Midwifery Care 2, MIP6101: Midwifery Clinical Practice 1, and MIP6102 Midwifery Clinical Practice 2. This unit MID6107 is a pre-requisite or co requisite for MIP6103 Midwifery Clinical Practice 3.

Only students studying the Graduate Diploma in Midwifery Practice (T91) can enrol in this unit

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Illustrate how the midwife provides safe, competent care as part of the multidisciplinary team when caring for women and babies with complex needs.
  2. Discuss the recognition and response to clinical deterioration in women/persons and babies.
  3. Integrate contemporary evidence-based practice into midwifery care throughout the childbearing continuum.

Unit Content

  1. Care of women/persons and families with complex deviations caused by pregnancy.
  2. Discharge planning with multiple agencies for families with vulnerabilities.
  3. Perinatal mental health.
  4. Assisted reproduction.
  5. Pre-term labour and birth.
  6. Vaginal birth after caesarean section.
  7. Bereavement and neonatal loss - midwifery care and statutory duties.
  8. Multiple pregnancies.
  9. Caring for the sick and vulnerable newborn.
  10. Self-care for midwives and mentoring others.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PosterPoster Presentation 40%
AssignmentReview – Hospital Policy Critique 60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Nursing and Midwifery

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    High Dependency Care During Childbirth
  • Unit Code

    MID6107
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Di BLOXSOME

Description

This unit is the third and final theory unit which will be studied online. MID6107 is a co-requisite/ pre-requisite for MIP6103 Midwifery Clinical Practice 3. This unit as the third of three theory units will build on the foundational concepts explored in MID6105 and MID6106 Theory for Midwifery Care 1 and 2. This unit introduces deviations from normal physiology and will build on knowledge and experience from MID6106: Theory for Midwifery Care 2. MID6107 will focus the midwife’s role in working with the multidisciplinary maternity care team providing evidence-based care for women/persons with high-risk, complex pregnancy and birth conditions.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed MID6105:Theory for Midwifery Care 1, MID6106: Theory for Midwifery Care 2, MIP6101: Midwifery Clinical Practice 1, and MIP6102 Midwifery Clinical Practice 2. This unit MID6107 is a pre-requisite or co requisite for MIP6103 Midwifery Clinical Practice 3.

Only students studying the Graduate Diploma in Midwifery Practice (T91) can enrol in this unit

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Illustrate how the midwife provides safe, competent care as part of the multidisciplinary team when caring for women and babies with complex needs.
  2. Discuss the recognition and response to clinical deterioration in women/persons and babies.
  3. Integrate contemporary evidence-based practice into midwifery care throughout the childbearing continuum.

Unit Content

  1. Care of women/persons and families with complex deviations caused by pregnancy.
  2. Discharge planning with multiple agencies for families with vulnerabilities.
  3. Perinatal mental health.
  4. Assisted reproduction.
  5. Pre-term labour and birth.
  6. Vaginal birth after caesarean section.
  7. Bereavement and neonatal loss - midwifery care and statutory duties.
  8. Multiple pregnancies.
  9. Caring for the sick and vulnerable newborn.
  10. Self-care for midwives and mentoring others.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PosterPoster Presentation 40%
AssignmentReview – Hospital Policy Critique 60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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