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

    Midwifery Practice 3: Developing Midwifery Competencies
  • Unit Code

    MIP2102
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Clare Louise DAVISON

Description

This is the third workplace integrated learning unit in a series of six clinical midwifery practice units. In this unit students are provided with the opportunity to focus on further developing their skills in caring for women in the antenatal and postnatal periods. Students will be prepared for their exposure to these practice areas through an intensive series of lectures and clinical skills workshops provided by the core midwifery teaching team in conjunction with a range of women-centred midwifery and allied maternity care associates. Students will have the opportunity to further develop the knowledge, techniques and skills required by the midwife in the antenatal and postnatal periods; competence in holistic assessment, health promotion, physical and emotional care of women, the facilitation of womens ante- and postnatal decision-making, and collaborative interprofessional working are included in this unit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MIP2101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MPT3204

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply health assessment instruments commonly used in clinical midwifery practice.
  2. Apply infection control skills.
  3. Assume management of 30-60% of the Registered Midwife workload appropriate to the setting.
  4. Demonstrate developing competence to undertake comprehensive antepartum and postpartum and neonatal physical assessments relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting.
  5. Demonstrate professional competence in the workplace setting in accordance with the NMBA Competencies for the Registered Midwife relevant to a Stage 4 learner scope of practice.
  6. Distinguish between normal and abnormal health assessment findings.
  7. Undertake maternal mental and emotional health assessments.

Unit Content

  1. Antenatal care and woman centred decision making.
  2. Clinical practice experience.
  3. Facilitating transition to motherhood.
  4. Facilitating woman-centred decision-making in pregnancy and the puerperium.
  5. Infant feeding with a focus on breastfeeding.
  6. Maternal-newborn attachment.
  7. Postnatal care and woman centred decision making.
  8. Revision of the role and scope of the midwife.
  9. Supported delivery of antenatal education.
  10. Working in multidisciplinary teams with a focus on maternal referral pathways.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Clinical skills workshops, clinical practicum: 80 hours.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationParent education50%
Case StudyDiscussion paper50%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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

    Midwifery Practice 3: Developing Midwifery Competencies
  • Unit Code

    MIP2102
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Clare Louise DAVISON

Description

This is the third workplace integrated learning unit in a series of six clinical midwifery practice units. In this unit students are provided with the opportunity to focus on further developing their skills in caring for women in the antenatal and postnatal periods. Students will be prepared for their exposure to these practice areas through an intensive series of lectures and clinical skills workshops provided by the core midwifery teaching team in conjunction with a range of women-centred midwifery and allied maternity care associates. Students will have the opportunity to further develop the knowledge, techniques and skills required by the midwife in the antenatal and postnatal periods; competence in holistic assessment, health promotion, physical and emotional care of women, the facilitation of womens ante- and postnatal decision-making, and collaborative interprofessional working are included in this unit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MIP2101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MPT3204

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply health assessment instruments commonly used in clinical midwifery practice.
  2. Apply infection control skills.
  3. Assume management of 30-60% of the Registered Midwife workload appropriate to the setting.
  4. Demonstrate developing competence to undertake comprehensive antepartum and postpartum and neonatal physical assessments relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting.
  5. Demonstrate professional competence in the workplace setting in accordance with the NMBA Competencies for the Registered Midwife relevant to a Stage 4 learner scope of practice.
  6. Distinguish between normal and abnormal health assessment findings.
  7. Undertake maternal mental and emotional health assessments.

Unit Content

  1. Antenatal care and woman centred decision making.
  2. Clinical practice experience.
  3. Facilitating transition to motherhood.
  4. Facilitating woman-centred decision-making in pregnancy and the puerperium.
  5. Infant feeding with a focus on breastfeeding.
  6. Maternal-newborn attachment.
  7. Postnatal care and woman centred decision making.
  8. Revision of the role and scope of the midwife.
  9. Supported delivery of antenatal education.
  10. Working in multidisciplinary teams with a focus on maternal referral pathways.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Clinical skills workshops, clinical practicum: 80 hours.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationParent education50%
Case StudyDiscussion paper50%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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