Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Nursing and Midwifery

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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

  Beginning Midwifery Practice

• Unit Code

  MIP6202

• Year

  2020

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  3

• Credit Points

  20

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  Ms Clare Louise DAVISON

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Description

This unit focuses on the clinical care of women and their families during the childbearing period. Students are introduced to a range of normal experiences and minor complications of childbearing, and explore the role of the midwife within a multi-disciplinary team in supporting women and their families through the childbearing year. Skills for reflective midwifery practice within the legal and professional boundaries that govern midwifery are also included in this unit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units MID6104 and MIT6102

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course I80

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Practice in accordance with statutory and common laws affecting midwifery practice and utilise a professional decision making framework to provide safe, effective midwifery care to the well childbearing woman and her family.
2. Communicate effectively with and appropriately support women, their families and professional colleagues.
3. Participate in ethical, sensitive and enabling midwife/client relationships built on a partnership model and demonstrate competence in reflection on midwifery practice
4. With support, apply evidence based knowledge to midwifery care to fulfil the pivotal role of the midwife in a multidisciplinary health care team.
5. Provide advice on health promotion and healthy lifestyle choices to childbearing families and evaluate the familys response to childbearing from a socio-cultural perspective.

Unit Content

1. Professional accountability and statutory documentation in midwifery.
2. Reflective practice frameworks, professional practice portfolios, and their application in midwifery.
3. Effective communication with women, their families, and members of the health care team.
4. The role of the midwife in multi-disciplinary maternity care: effective teams in maternity care provision.
5. Advocacy in partnership models of midwifery care.
6. Pre-conception anatomy, physiology and care, including family planning.
7. Anatomy and physiology of pregnancy, labour, birth and the puerperium.
8. Physiological, social, cultural and psychological considerations in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the childbearing woman in pregnancy.
9. Physiological, social, cultural and psychological considerations in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the childbearing woman in labour and birth, and in the puerperium.
10. Health promotion, illness prevention and health education in maternity care: healthy lifestyle choices for childbearing families.
11. Essential antenatal, intrapartum, postpartum and neonatal assessment skills
12. Problem solving and clinical decision making in midwifery in relation to the well woman and fetus/neonate.
13. Basic counselling skills.

Learning Experience

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will follow a variety of approaches to learning. Modules include online lectures, quizzes, readings and videos. On campus the students will attend tutorials, workshops and clinical skills sessions. The students will also be expected to undertake 80 hours Continuity of Care Experiences plus 240 hours paid employment professional practice experience.

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.

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