School: Nursing and Midwifery

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  • Unit Title

    Midwifery Practice 4: Postnatal Care
  • Unit Code

    MIP3104
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Emma RITCHIE

Description

This is the fourth workplace integrated learning unit in a series of seven 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 [person]-centred care in the postnatal period. Students will be prepared for their exposure to these practice areas through an intensive series of clinical skills workshops provided by the core midwifery teaching team in conjunction with a range of woman [person]-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 postnatal period; competence in holistic assessment, health promotion, physical and emotional care of women/ birthing people, the facilitation of postnatal decision-making, and collaborative interprofessional working are included in this unit. This unit is a designated unit, which means only one attempt is allowed.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will 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

Must have passed MIP2104 and MIT2102

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must study MIT3102 concurrently with MIP3104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply effective communication skills and principles of health promotion including identification of credible community resources for postnatal care and ongoing maternal health.
  2. Plan inclusive safe, family-centred, culturally competent, evidence-based care for the neonate and family.
  3. Practice competence relevant to a Stage 5 learner scope of practice in undertaking comprehensive woman-centred postnatal assessments against the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice consistent with national and international standards.

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 in the postnatal period.
  3. Facilitating transition to parenthood.
  4. Infant feeding with a focus on breastfeeding.
  5. Maternal-newborn attachment.
  6. Facilitating woman-centred decision-making in the puerperium.
  7. Revision of the role and scope of the midwife relative to national and international philosophies, definitions and frameworks.
  8. Culturally considerate and inclusive postpartum care, and woman-centred decision making.
  9. Establishing and maintaining professional relationships with other healthcare professionals in the puerperium.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Practicum713 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

80 hours of full-time clinical practice experience and the recruitment of 6 [course total] CCEs.

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)
Reflective Practice ^Professional reflection
Practicum ^Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool
Portfolio ^Midwifery portfolio (Midwifery and Continuity of Care Experiences [recruitment of 6 - course total], 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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