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: Continuing Midwifery Practice Competence
  • Unit Code

    MIP4209
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Clare Louise DAVISON

Description

This is the fifth workplace integrated learning unit in a series of six clinical midwifery practice units. This practicum unit builds on previous practical experiences and skill development; it will provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate advancing competencies in applied midwifery practice. Students will provide evidence-based care and refine their clinical skills in selected health care settings.Students will be prepared for their exposure to these practice areas through an intensive series of lectures and clinical skills workshops; a range of maternity care University associates will contribute to this learning. This unit focuses on the midwifery care of women and their babies across the childbearing continuum. Students will continue to develop the requisite skills to provide sensitive, safe, supportive and culturally appropriate midwifery care within an interdisciplinary framework and in accordance with the legal,professional and ethical mandates for midwifery.

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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MIP3101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NMW4103, NMW4116

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate competence in appropriate interdisciplinary referral and consultation.
  2. Demonstrate competence in the workplace setting in accordance with the NMBA Competencies for the Registered Midwife relevant to a Stage 5 learner scope of practice.
  3. Demonstrate competence to undertake comprehensive assessment and culturally appropriate care across the childbearing continuum relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting under the indirect supervision of a Registered Midwife.
  4. Discuss approaches to self-care.
  5. Distinguish between normal and abnormal midwifery assessment findings.
  6. Employ evidence-based diagnostic reasoning / decision-making skills.
  7. Undertake the management of 60-100% of the Registered Midwife workload appropriate to the setting.

Unit Content

  1. Clinical workload management approaches in a new context.
  2. Collaborative and interprofessional midwifery practices.
  3. Diagnostic reasoning principles applied to midwifery practice.
  4. Maternal referral pathways.
  5. Role and scope of the midwife across the childbearing continuum in accordance with cultural sensitivity principles.
  6. Work-life balance and self-care.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, clinical practicum: 160 hours.

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 ^Evidence of successful completion of the clinical placement
AssignmentCase study

^ 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.

  • Unit Title

    Midwifery Practice 5: Continuing Midwifery Practice Competence
  • Unit Code

    MIP4209
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Clare Louise DAVISON

Description

This is the fifth workplace integrated learning unit in a series of six clinical midwifery practice units. This practicum unit builds on previous practical experiences and skill development; it will provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate advancing competencies in applied midwifery practice. Students will provide evidence-based care and refine their clinical skills in selected health care settings.Students will be prepared for their exposure to these practice areas through an intensive series of lectures and clinical skills workshops; a range of maternity care University associates will contribute to this learning. This unit focuses on the midwifery care of women and their babies across the childbearing continuum. Students will continue to develop the requisite skills to provide sensitive, safe, supportive and culturally appropriate midwifery care within an interdisciplinary framework and in accordance with the legal,professional and ethical mandates for midwifery.

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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MIP3101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NMW4103, NMW4116

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate competence in appropriate interdisciplinary referral and consultation.
  2. Demonstrate competence in the workplace setting in accordance with the NMBA Competencies for the Registered Midwife relevant to a Stage 5 learner scope of practice.
  3. Demonstrate competence to undertake comprehensive assessment and culturally appropriate care across the childbearing continuum relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting under the indirect supervision of a Registered Midwife.
  4. Discuss approaches to self-care.
  5. Distinguish between normal and abnormal midwifery assessment findings.
  6. Employ evidence-based diagnostic reasoning / decision-making skills.
  7. Undertake the management of 60-100% of the Registered Midwife workload appropriate to the setting.

Unit Content

  1. Clinical workload management approaches in a new context.
  2. Collaborative and interprofessional midwifery practices.
  3. Diagnostic reasoning principles applied to midwifery practice.
  4. Maternal referral pathways.
  5. Role and scope of the midwife across the childbearing continuum in accordance with cultural sensitivity principles.
  6. Work-life balance and self-care.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, clinical practicum: 160 hours.

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 ^Evidence of successful completion of the clinical placement
AssignmentCase study

^ 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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