Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Nursing and Midwifery

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• Unit Title

  Midwifery Practice 3: Developing Midwifery Competencies

• Unit Code

  MIP2102

• Year

  2019

• Enrolment Period

  2

• Version

  3

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  Mrs Dianne Kim BLOXSOME

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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 skills in providing woman-centred care 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. Assume management of 30% of the Registered Midwife workload appropriate to the setting.
3. Collaborate with other health care professionals in the appropriate management of normal and abnormal health assessment findings.
4. Demonstrate developing competence to provide comprehensive woman-centred antepartum and postpartum care 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. Undertake woman-centred maternal mental and emotional health assessments.

Unit Content

1. Antenatal care and woman centred decision making.
2. Clinical practice experience in a maternity service and through continuity of care partnerships with women.
3. Culturally considerate antepartum and postpartum care, and woman-centred decision making.
4. Facilitating transition to motherhood.
5. Facilitating woman-centred decision-making in pregnancy and the puerperium.
6. Infant feeding with a focus on breastfeeding.
7. Maternal-newborn attachment.
8. Revision of the role and scope of the midwife relative to national and international philosophies, definitions and frameworks.
9. Supported delivery of antenatal education.
10. Working in multidisciplinary teams with a focus on maternal referral pathways.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

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

Online interactive learning activities, tutorials, workshops, clinical practicum: 80 hrs and at least 30 hours of CoCE.

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.

^ Mandatory to Pass

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