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

    Introduction to Midwifery Practice 1
  • Unit Code

    MIP1101
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Krystyl WISSEMANN

Description

This is the first workplace integrated learning unit in a series of seven clinical midwifery practice units. In this unit, students will be prepared for clinical midwifery practice settings and the conduct of continuity of care experiences through an intensive series of clinical skills workshops provided by the core midwifery teaching team in conjunction with a range of woman [person]-centred midwifery and allied maternity care associates. Students will have the opportunity to develop the knowledge, techniques and skills required by the professional midwife to perform comprehensive midwifery health assessments including the basic physical assessment of antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum women/birthing persons, and newborns. Beginning level clinical reasoning skills with a focus on woman-centred health assessment and management, symptom assessment, and promoting function are also developed in this unit.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will be required to undertake clinical practicum during the hours laid down by their host clinical agency and these may occur at times outside the identified semester weeks. Additionally, pre-identified clinical practicum periods may change with minimal notice to students due to circumstances outside the control of the School. Students are also required to conduct continuity of care experiences; these may occur outside of identified semester weeks.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass MIT1101.

Only students studying Bachelor of Science (Nursing)/Bachelor of Science (Midwifery) (Y76) can enrol in this unit.

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must complete MIP1101 concurrently with MIT1102.

Equivalent Rule

MIP1203

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate professional competence in the workplace setting against the NMBA Midwife Standards of Practice relevant to a Stage 2 learner scope of practice.
  2. Apply midwifery knowledge and skills to undertake basic antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum and neonatal physical assessments relevant to midwifery practice in a variety of health care settings.
  3. Reflect on effective learning and self-care strategies for themselves and others.

Unit Content

  1. Taking basic maternal and neonatal health histories and documentation.
  2. Abdominal palpation in pregnancy, intrapartum and postpartum periods.
  3. Initial physical assessment of the newborn.
  4. Instruments for assessing maternal mental health and neonatal adaptation to extra-uterine life.
  5. Establishing and maintaining professionalism as a midwifery student working in multidisciplinary teams.
  6. Partnership with woman.
  7. Collaborative midwifery practice.
  8. Orientation to clinical practice environments, continuity of care experiences, documentation and reflection.
  9. Reflective and ethical practice.
  10. Introduction to breastfeeding and infant nutrition.
  11. Assertive communication skills.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Practicum813 x 3 hour workshopNot Offered13 x 3 hour workshop

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (on-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional at an ECU campus or location.  

Additional Learning Experience Information

80hrs of fulltime clinical practice experience and the recruitment of 1 CCE [course total].

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Portfolio ^Portfolio (Clinical placement requirements, simulation learning participation, medication calculation test)
Practicum ^Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool
Reflective PracticeProfessional reflection
PortfolioMidwifery portfolio (Midwifery and Continuity of Care Experience [recruitment of 1 woman - course total] and Competency Assessment Tool)

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

MIP1101|1|1

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

    Introduction to Midwifery Practice 1
  • Unit Code

    MIP1101
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Krystyl WISSEMANN

Description

This is the first workplace integrated learning unit in a series of seven clinical midwifery practice units. In this unit, students will be prepared for clinical midwifery practice settings and the conduct of continuity of care experiences through an intensive series of clinical skills workshops provided by the core midwifery teaching team in conjunction with a range of woman [person]-centred midwifery and allied maternity care associates. Students will have the opportunity to develop the knowledge, techniques and skills required by the professional midwife to perform comprehensive midwifery health assessments including the basic physical assessment of antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum women/birthing persons, and newborns. Beginning level clinical reasoning skills with a focus on woman-centred health assessment and management, symptom assessment, and promoting function are also developed in this unit.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will be required to undertake clinical practicum during the hours laid down by their host clinical agency and these may occur at times outside the identified semester weeks. Additionally, pre-identified clinical practicum periods may change with minimal notice to students due to circumstances outside the control of the School. Students are also required to conduct continuity of care experiences; these may occur outside of identified semester weeks.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass MIT1101.

Only students studying Bachelor of Science (Nursing)/Bachelor of Science (Midwifery) (Y76) can enrol in this unit.

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must complete MIP1101 concurrently with MIT1102.

Equivalent Rule

MIP1203

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate professional competence in the workplace setting against the NMBA Midwife Standards of Practice relevant to a Stage 2 learner scope of practice.
  2. Apply midwifery knowledge and skills to undertake basic antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum and neonatal physical assessments relevant to midwifery practice in a variety of health care settings.
  3. Reflect on effective learning and self-care strategies for themselves and others.

Unit Content

  1. Taking basic maternal and neonatal health histories and documentation.
  2. Abdominal palpation in pregnancy, intrapartum and postpartum periods.
  3. Initial physical assessment of the newborn.
  4. Instruments for assessing maternal mental health and neonatal adaptation to extra-uterine life.
  5. Establishing and maintaining professionalism as a midwifery student working in multidisciplinary teams.
  6. Partnership with woman.
  7. Collaborative midwifery practice.
  8. Orientation to clinical practice environments, continuity of care experiences, documentation and reflection.
  9. Reflective and ethical practice.
  10. Introduction to breastfeeding and infant nutrition.
  11. Assertive communication skills.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Practicum813 x 3 hour workshopNot Offered13 x 3 hour workshop

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (on-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional at an ECU campus or location.  

Additional Learning Experience Information

80hrs of fulltime clinical practice experience and the recruitment of 1 CCE [course total].

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Portfolio ^Portfolio (Clinical placement requirements, simulation learning participation, medication calculation test)
Practicum ^Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool
Performance ^Simulated clinical assessment
PortfolioMidwifery portfolio (Midwifery and Continuity of Care Experience [recruitment of 1 woman - course total] and Competency Assessment Tool)

^ Mandatory to Pass


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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