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 5: Supporting the Newborn
  • Unit Code

    MIP3105
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Melanie WELFARE

Description

This is the fifth workplace integrated learning unit in a series of seven clinical midwifery practice units. This unit will explore the principles and practices underpinning the assessment and management of the neonate. It extends earlier theoretical knowledge and clinical experiences and provides students with the knowledge and skills to enable them to recognise the at-risk, sick or premature neonate. Students will be prepared for their exposure to these practice areas through an intensive series of clinical skills workshops provided by an experienced teaching team in conjunction with a range of woman [person]-centred midwifery and allied maternity care associates. 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 MIT3102 and MIP3104

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

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MIT3101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe normal anatomy and physiology and the need for intervention as part of the neonate's transition to extra-uterine life.
  2. Analyse the differences between the physiological and neurodevelopmental characteristics of a normal and a premature, sick or at-risk neonate.
  3. Review safe, family-centred, culturally competent, evidence-based care for the neonate and their family in a Special Care Nursery or postnatal ward.
  4. Practice competence in the workplace setting against the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice relevant to a Stage 6 learner scope of practice and interdisciplinary team working principles.
  5. Examine the deteriorating, sick or at-risk neonate based on the presenting signs, symptoms and/or pathophysiology.

Unit Content

  1. Ethical, professional and legal implications in the care of neonates.
  2. Comprehensive neurological, behavioural and physiological assessment of the neonate.
  3. Evidence-based and culturally considerate care of the well neonate.
  4. Recognition of deviation from the norm.
  5. The impact of ethnicity on neonatal physiology.
  6. Professionalism as a student midwife working in multidisciplinary teams with a focus on newborn referral pathways.
  7. Promotion of self-determination for the family in decision-making.

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 of full-time clinical practice experience and the recruitment of 7 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)
Reflective Practice ^Professional reflection
Practicum ^Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool
Portfolio ^Midwifery portfolio (Midwifery and, Continuity of Care Experiences (course total recruitment of 7) 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 5: Supporting the Newborn
  • Unit Code

    MIP3105
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Melanie WELFARE

Description

This is the fifth workplace integrated learning unit in a series of seven clinical midwifery practice units. This unit will explore the principles and practices underpinning the assessment and management of the neonate. It extends earlier theoretical knowledge and clinical experiences and provides students with the knowledge and skills to enable them to recognise the at-risk, sick or premature neonate. Students will be prepared for their exposure to these practice areas through an intensive series of clinical skills workshops provided by an experienced teaching team in conjunction with a range of woman [person]-centred midwifery and allied maternity care associates. 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 MIT3102 and MIP3104

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

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MIT3101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe normal anatomy and physiology and the need for intervention as part of the neonate's transition to extra-uterine life.
  2. Analyse the differences between the physiological and neurodevelopmental characteristics of a normal and a premature, sick or at-risk neonate.
  3. Review safe, family-centred, culturally competent, evidence-based care for the neonate and their family in a Special Care Nursery or postnatal ward.
  4. Practice competence in the workplace setting against the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice relevant to a Stage 6 learner scope of practice and interdisciplinary team working principles.
  5. Examine the deteriorating, sick or at-risk neonate based on the presenting signs, symptoms and/or pathophysiology.

Unit Content

  1. Ethical, professional and legal implications in the care of neonates.
  2. Comprehensive neurological, behavioural and physiological assessment of the neonate.
  3. Evidence-based and culturally considerate care of the well neonate.
  4. Recognition of deviation from the norm.
  5. The impact of ethnicity on neonatal physiology.
  6. Professionalism as a student midwife working in multidisciplinary teams with a focus on newborn referral pathways.
  7. Promotion of self-determination for the family in decision-making.

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 of full-time clinical practice experience and the recruitment of 7 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)
Performance ^Simulated clinical assessment
Practicum ^Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool
Portfolio ^Midwifery portfolio (Midwifery and, Continuity of Care Experiences (course total recruitment of 7) 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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