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: Intrapartum Midwifery Care
  • Unit Code

    MIP2104
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Kieran KENNY

Description

This is the third workplace integrated learning unit in a series of seven clinical midwifery practice units. In this unit, students build on the clinical experience and competencies developed in the first two practicums. In this unit, the focus is on the intrapartum care of the woman/birthing person. Students will be prepared for their exposure to birth suite practice settings through an intensive series of clinical skills workshops. A range of external maternity care University associates will be involved in students' learning. Students will have the opportunity to further develop the knowledge, techniques and skills required by the midwife. These include assessment of intrapartum women [people], and newborns. Clinical reasoning skills with a focus on a woman [person]-centred approach are also developed in this unit. This unit is a designated unit, which means only one attempt is allowed.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will be required to undertake clinical practicum during the hours laid down by their host clinical agency and that 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 units from MIP2103

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

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must enrol in MIT2102 concurrently with MIP2104.

Equivalent Rule

MIP2101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate developing competence to provide comprehensive inclusive woman-centred intrapartum care relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting.
  2. Practice professional competence in the workplace setting against the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice relevant to a Stage 4 learner scope of practice.
  3. Collaborate with other health care professionals in the appropriate management of normal and abnormal health assessment findings.
  4. Promote the safe and effective care for women and the fetus/neonate during labour, birth and immediately postpartum in accordance with national and international midwifery philosophies, definitions and frameworks.
  5. Complete a comprehensive woman-centred intrapartum assessment relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting, taking account of specific ethnic and cultural considerations.

Unit Content

  1. Culturally competent and woman-centred maternal health assessment plus neonatal health assessment, and documentation in the intrapartum period.
  2. Abdominal palpation in the intrapartum period and immediately postpartum.
  3. Maternal-newborn attachment.
  4. Assertive communication.
  5. Professionalism as a student midwife working in multidisciplinary teams with a focus on maternal and newborn referral pathways.
  6. Clinical practice experience in a birthing suite setting.
  7. Debriefing for women, families and care providers.
  8. Partnership with woman.
  9. Informed consent.
  10. Initial physical assessment of the newborn.

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 full-time clinical placement experience, and the recruitment of 5 CCEs [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 Practice ^Professional reflection
Portfolio ^Midwifery portfolio (Midwifery and Continuity of Care Experience [recruitment of 5 women - 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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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: Intrapartum Midwifery Care
  • Unit Code

    MIP2104
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Kieran KENNY

Description

This is the third workplace integrated learning unit in a series of seven clinical midwifery practice units. In this unit, students build on the clinical experience and competencies developed in the first two practicums. In this unit, the focus is on the intrapartum care of the woman/birthing person. Students will be prepared for their exposure to birth suite practice settings through an intensive series of clinical skills workshops. A range of external maternity care University associates will be involved in students' learning. Students will have the opportunity to further develop the knowledge, techniques and skills required by the midwife. These include assessment of intrapartum women [people], and newborns. Clinical reasoning skills with a focus on a woman [person]-centred approach are also developed in this unit. This unit is a designated unit, which means only one attempt is allowed.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will be required to undertake clinical practicum during the hours laid down by their host clinical agency and that 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 units from MIP2103

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

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must enrol in MIT2102 concurrently with MIP2104.

Equivalent Rule

MIP2101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate developing competence to provide comprehensive inclusive woman-centred intrapartum care relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting.
  2. Practice professional competence in the workplace setting against the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice relevant to a Stage 4 learner scope of practice.
  3. Collaborate with other health care professionals in the appropriate management of normal and abnormal health assessment findings.
  4. Promote the safe and effective care for women and the fetus/neonate during labour, birth and immediately postpartum in accordance with national and international midwifery philosophies, definitions and frameworks.
  5. Complete a comprehensive woman-centred intrapartum assessment relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting, taking account of specific ethnic and cultural considerations.

Unit Content

  1. Culturally competent and woman-centred maternal health assessment plus neonatal health assessment, and documentation in the intrapartum period.
  2. Abdominal palpation in the intrapartum period and immediately postpartum.
  3. Maternal-newborn attachment.
  4. Assertive communication.
  5. Professionalism as a student midwife working in multidisciplinary teams with a focus on maternal and newborn referral pathways.
  6. Clinical practice experience in a birthing suite setting.
  7. Debriefing for women, families and care providers.
  8. Partnership with woman.
  9. Informed consent.
  10. Initial physical assessment of the newborn.

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 full-time clinical placement experience, and the recruitment of 5 CCEs [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
Portfolio ^Midwifery portfolio (Midwifery and Continuity of Care Experience [recruitment of 5 women - 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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