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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Midwifery Practice 3: Developing Midwifery Competencies
  • Unit Code

    MIP2102
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Emma Louise RITCHIE

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. 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.
  2. Assume management of 30% of the Registered Midwife workload appropriate to the setting.
  3. Apply health assessment instruments commonly used in clinical midwifery practice.
  4. Collaborate with other health care professionals in the appropriate management of normal and abnormal health assessment findings.
  5. Undertake woman-centred maternal mental and emotional health assessments.
  6. Demonstrate developing competence to provide comprehensive woman-centred antepartum and postpartum care relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting.

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.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 25 x 5 hour tutorialNot Offered5 x 5 hour tutorial

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWritten assignment40%
Portfolio ^Successful completion of clinical practicum and at least 30 hours of CoCE 10%
Examination ^Written Examination50%

^ 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.

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Midwifery Practice 3: Developing Midwifery Competencies
  • Unit Code

    MIP2102
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Emma Louise RITCHIE

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. 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.
  2. Assume management of 30% of the Registered Midwife workload appropriate to the setting.
  3. Apply health assessment instruments commonly used in clinical midwifery practice.
  4. Collaborate with other health care professionals in the appropriate management of normal and abnormal health assessment findings.
  5. Undertake woman-centred maternal mental and emotional health assessments.
  6. Demonstrate developing competence to provide comprehensive woman-centred antepartum and postpartum care relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting.

Unit Content

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

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 25 x 5 hour tutorialNot Offered5 x 5 hour tutorial

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWritten case study assignment40%
Portfolio ^Successful completion of clinical practicum and at least 30 hours of CoCE10%
Test ^Online timed test consisting of multiple choice and short and long answer questions50%

^ 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.

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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