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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

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 4: Intrapartum Midwifery Care of the Well Woman and Baby

  • Unit Code

    MIP3101

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

Description

This is the fourth workplace integrated learning unit in a series of six clinical midwifery practice units. This unit focuses on the development of midwifery skills in caring for women during labour and birth.Students will be prepared for their exposure to practice through an intensive series of lectures and clinical skills workshops provided by the core midwifery teaching team as well as a range of external maternity care associates. Students will develop the requisite skills for the facilitation of a sensitive, safe and emotionally satisfying birth experience within the mandatory legal, professional and ethical frameworks for midwifery.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MIT3101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NMW2107

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Assume management of 30-60% of the Registered Midwife Workload appropriate to the setting.
  2. Demonstrate competence in the workplace setting in accordance with NMBA Competencies for the Registered Midwife relevant to a Stage 4 learner scope of practice and interdiciplinary team working principles.
  3. Distinguish between normal and abnormal health assessment findings.
  4. Safely and effectively care for women and the fetus/neonate during labour, birth and immediately postpartum.
  5. Undertake a comprehensive intrapartum assessment relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting taking account of specific ethnic and cultural considerations.
  6. Utilise health assessment and reporting tools commonly used in clinical midwifery practice.

Unit Content

  1. Care of the second parent.
  2. Clinical practice experience.
  3. Intrapartum fetal surveillance.
  4. Non-pharmacological and pharmacological pain management options.
  5. Principles of culturally sensitive intrapartum care:evidence-based management of the first, second, third and fourth stages of labour and birth.
  6. Professionalism as a student midwife with a focus on collaborative interprofessional working and maternal referral pathways.
  7. Revision of the role and scope of the midwife in the intrapartum period.
  8. Supporting women to cope with the physiological, emotional and mental challenges of labour and birth.
  9. Woman-centred labour and birth care, including facilitation of woman-centred decision-making intrapartum.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, clinical practicum: 80 hours and 40-60 hours of continuity of care experiences.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail 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
TypeDescription
Examination ^Objective Clinical Skills Examination ('OSCE')
Portfolio ^Successful completion of the clinical placement and 40-60 hours of continuity of care experience: Midwifery Practice portfolio review

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • Macdonald, S., & Magill-Cuerden, J. (2011). Mayes' midwifery (14th ed.). New York, NY: Bailliere Tindall.

Website References

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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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

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 4: Intrapartum Midwifery Care of the Well Woman and Baby

  • Unit Code

    MIP3101

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

Description

This is the fourth workplace integrated learning unit in a series of six clinical midwifery practice units. This unit focuses on the development of midwifery skills in caring for women during labour and birth.Students will be prepared for their exposure to practice through an intensive series of lectures and clinical skills workshops provided by the core midwifery teaching team as well as a range of external maternity care associates. Students will develop the requisite skills for the facilitation of a sensitive, safe and emotionally satisfying birth experience within the mandatory legal, professional and ethical frameworks for midwifery.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MIT3101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NMW2107

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Assume management of 30-60% of the Registered Midwife Workload appropriate to the setting.
  2. Demonstrate competence in the workplace setting in accordance with NMBA Competencies for the Registered Midwife relevant to a Stage 4 learner scope of practice and interdiciplinary team working principles.
  3. Distinguish between normal and abnormal health assessment findings.
  4. Safely and effectively care for women and the fetus/neonate during labour, birth and immediately postpartum.
  5. Undertake a comprehensive intrapartum assessment relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting taking account of specific ethnic and cultural considerations.
  6. Utilise health assessment and reporting tools commonly used in clinical midwifery practice.

Unit Content

  1. Care of the second parent.
  2. Clinical practice experience.
  3. Intrapartum fetal surveillance.
  4. Non-pharmacological and pharmacological pain management options.
  5. Principles of culturally sensitive intrapartum care:evidence-based management of the first, second, third and fourth stages of labour and birth.
  6. Professionalism as a student midwife with a focus on collaborative interprofessional working and maternal referral pathways.
  7. Revision of the role and scope of the midwife in the intrapartum period.
  8. Supporting women to cope with the physiological, emotional and mental challenges of labour and birth.
  9. Woman-centred labour and birth care, including facilitation of woman-centred decision-making intrapartum.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, clinical practicum: 80 hours and 40-60 hours of continuity of care experiences.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail 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
TypeDescription
Examination ^Objective Clinical Skills Examination ('OSCE')
Portfolio ^Successful completion of the clinical placement and 40-60 hours of continuity of care experience: Midwifery Practice portfolio review

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • Macdonald, S., & Magill-Cuerden, J. (2011). Mayes' midwifery (14th ed.). New York, NY: Bailliere Tindall.

Website References

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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