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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Midwifery Practice 5: Continuing Midwifery Practice Competence
  • Unit Code

    MIP4209
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Annemarie June DE LEO

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 woman-centred 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, in accordance with the legal, professional and ethical mandates for midwifery and with reference to national and international midwifery philosophies, definitions and frameworks.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be delivered in a two week block period at the commencement of the semester. Students will also 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.

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. Employ evidence-based diagnostic reasoning / decision-making skills in the identification of normal and abnormal midwifery assessment findings.
  4. Provide comprehensive woman-centred and culturally appropriate midwifery assessment and care in accordance with national and international midwifery philosophies, definition and frameworks under the indirect supervision of a Registered Midwife.
  5. Undertake the management of 60-80% of the Registered Midwife workload appropriate to the setting.

Unit Content

  1. Clinical practice experience in a maternity service and through continuity of care partnerships.
  2. Clinical workload management approaches in a new context.
  3. Collaborative and interprofessional midwifery practices.
  4. Diagnostic reasoning principles applied to midwifery practice.
  5. Maternal referral pathways.
  6. The role and scope of the midwife across the childbearing continuum in accordance with woman-centred care and cultural sensitivity principles and national and international midwifery philosophies, definitions and frameworks.
  7. Work-life balance and self-care.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 110 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

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

Online interactive learning activities, tutorials, workshops, 160 hours of clinical practice experience (+ optional 80 hrs international practicum) and at least 40 hours of CoCE.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework 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
TypeDescriptionValue
Examination ^Objective Clinical Skills Examination ('OSCE')40%
Portfolio ^Successful completion of the clinical practicum and evidence of at least 40 hrs of CoCE30%
AssignmentWritten assignment30%

^ 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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Midwifery Practice 5: Continuing Midwifery Practice Competence
  • Unit Code

    MIP4209
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Annemarie June DE LEO

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 woman-centred 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, in accordance with the legal, professional and ethical mandates for midwifery and with reference to national and international midwifery philosophies, definitions and frameworks.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be delivered in a two week block period at the commencement of the semester. Students will also 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.

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. Employ evidence-based diagnostic reasoning / decision-making skills in the identification of normal and abnormal midwifery assessment findings.
  4. Provide comprehensive woman-centred and culturally appropriate midwifery assessment and care in accordance with national and international midwifery philosophies, definition and frameworks under the indirect supervision of a Registered Midwife.
  5. Undertake the management of 60-80% of the Registered Midwife workload appropriate to the setting.

Unit Content

  1. Clinical practice experience in a maternity service and through continuity of care partnerships.
  2. Clinical workload management approaches in a new context.
  3. Collaborative and interprofessional midwifery practices.
  4. Diagnostic reasoning principles applied to midwifery practice.
  5. Maternal referral pathways.
  6. The role and scope of the midwife across the childbearing continuum in accordance with woman-centred care and cultural sensitivity principles and national and international midwifery philosophies, definitions and frameworks.
  7. Work-life balance and self-care.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 110 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

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

Online interactive learning activities, tutorials, workshops, 160 hours of clinical practice experience (+ optional 80 hrs international practicum) and at least 40 hours of CoCE.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework 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
TypeDescriptionValue
Examination ^Objective Clinical Skills Examination ('OSCE')40%
Portfolio ^Successful completion of the clinical practicum and evidence of at least 40 hrs of CoCE30%
AssignmentWritten assignment30%

^ 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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