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 Clinical Practice 2
  • Unit Code

    MIP6102
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jacqueline TAYLOR

Description

This is the second workplace integrated learning unit in a series of three clinical midwifery practice units. This unit MIP6102 will introduce students to midwifery skills and practice through a one week (35 hours) intensive workshop involving simulated activities to prepare students to further develop their clinical skills in providing woman-centred/person-centred care in the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods. This unit is designated, meaning only one attempt is allowed. Failure of a designated unit may result in exclusion from the course. Students will simultaneously complete MID6105 Theory of Midwifery Practice 1 online, or have completed this previously. Students will complete mandatory pre-practicum requirements before commencing 240 hours of midwifery clinical practice. During placement students will and will be assessed using the Australian Midwifery Skills Assessment Tool (AMSAT); additionally, students will progress with the learning tools in the Midwifery Clinical Assessment Tool (MCAT). Students will continue with their continuity of care experiences and complete at least 60% of the midwifery practice experiences required for registration as a midwife in semester 2.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Midwifery clinical placements and continuity of care experiences will occur outside of the university scheduled semesters

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed Midwifery Clinical Practice 1 (MIP6101) and Theory for Midwifery Care 1 (MID6105) before studying this unit.

Only students studying the Graduate Diploma in Midwifery Practice (T91) can enrol in this unit

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must study Theory for Midwifery Care 2 (MID6106) concurrently with Midwifery Clinical Practice 2 (MIP6102) or have completed MID6106 previously.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate clinical decisions in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods using health assessment and reporting tools.
  2. Demonstrate competence in undertaking comprehensive woman-centred/person-centred assessments relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting and consistent with national and international standards.
  3. Collaborate with other health care professionals in the appropriate management of normal and abnormal health assessment findings.

Unit Content

  1. Obstetric Emergencies.
  2. Management of the mother/pregnant person with diabetes during labour.
  3. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.
  4. Induction of labour.
  5. Augmentation for labour dystocia.
  6. Complex vaginal assessments - positioning, asynclitism, moulding, banding.
  7. Phlebotomy and cannulation.
  8. Water immersion for labour and birth.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students are required to recruit pregnant women as part of the Mothers and Midwifery Students (MAMS) program to undertake continuity of care experiences. These experiences are in addition to clinical placements and require students to be available for antenatal appointments, birth, and postnatal care. Each completed CCE is anticipated to take approximately 20 hours.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescription
Performance ^Preclinical placement requirements
Portfolio ^Midwifery portfolio of midwifery experiences; recruit a further 3 Continuity of Care Experiences (CCE)
Practicum ^Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool (AMSAT) and Completion of a two thirds of the Midwifery Clinical Assessment Tool (MCAT)

^ 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 Clinical Practice 2
  • Unit Code

    MIP6102
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jacqueline TAYLOR

Description

This is the second workplace integrated learning unit in a series of three clinical midwifery practice units. This unit MIP6102 will introduce students to midwifery skills and practice through a one week (35 hours) intensive workshop involving simulated activities to prepare students to further develop their clinical skills in providing woman-centred/person-centred care in the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods. This unit is designated, meaning only one attempt is allowed. Failure of a designated unit may result in exclusion from the course. Students will simultaneously complete MID6105 Theory of Midwifery Practice 1 online, or have completed this previously. Students will complete mandatory pre-practicum requirements before commencing 240 hours of midwifery clinical practice. During placement students will and will be assessed using the Australian Midwifery Skills Assessment Tool (AMSAT); additionally, students will progress with the learning tools in the Midwifery Clinical Assessment Tool (MCAT). Students will continue with their continuity of care experiences and complete at least 60% of the midwifery practice experiences required for registration as a midwife in semester 2.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Midwifery clinical placements and continuity of care experiences will occur outside of the university scheduled semesters

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed Midwifery Clinical Practice 1 (MIP6101) and Theory for Midwifery Care 1 (MID6105) before studying this unit.

Only students studying the Graduate Diploma in Midwifery Practice (T91) can enrol in this unit

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must study Theory for Midwifery Care 2 (MID6106) concurrently with Midwifery Clinical Practice 2 (MIP6102) or have completed MID6106 previously.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate clinical decisions in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods using health assessment and reporting tools.
  2. Demonstrate competence in undertaking comprehensive woman-centred/person-centred assessments relevant to midwifery practice in the health care setting and consistent with national and international standards.
  3. Collaborate with other health care professionals in the appropriate management of normal and abnormal health assessment findings.

Unit Content

  1. Obstetric Emergencies.
  2. Management of the mother/pregnant person with diabetes during labour.
  3. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.
  4. Induction of labour.
  5. Augmentation for labour dystocia.
  6. Complex vaginal assessments - positioning, asynclitism, moulding, banding.
  7. Phlebotomy and cannulation.
  8. Water immersion for labour and birth.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students are required to recruit pregnant women as part of the Mothers and Midwifery Students (MAMS) program to undertake continuity of care experiences. These experiences are in addition to clinical placements and require students to be available for antenatal appointments, birth, and postnatal care. Each completed CCE is anticipated to take approximately 20 hours.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescription
Performance ^Preclinical placement requirements
Portfolio ^Midwifery portfolio of midwifery experiences; recruit a further 3 Continuity of Care Experiences (CCE)
Practicum ^Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool (AMSAT) and Completion of a two thirds of the Midwifery Clinical Assessment Tool (MCAT)

^ 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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