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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Beginning Midwifery Practice
  • Unit Code

    MIP6202
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Clare Maxine KEW

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.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Refer to the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Master of Midwifery Clincal Calender

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 family’s 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's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 4 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

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 Continuity of Care Experiences plus 192 hours of professional clinical 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 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
TypeDescriptionValue
Portfolio ^Successful completion of the clinical placement and CCE experiences (evidenced in the PebblePad e portfolio) and a case study reflection linking to placement35%
EssayProfessional issues from clinical practice25%
PresentationEvidence-based health promotion.40%

^ 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 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. 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, 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.

MIP6202|3|1

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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Beginning Midwifery Practice
  • Unit Code

    MIP6202
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Clare Maxine KEW

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.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Refer to the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Master of Midwifery Clincal Calender

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 family’s 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's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 4 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

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 Continuity of Care Experiences plus 192 hours of professional clinical 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 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
TypeDescriptionValue
Portfolio ^Successful completion of the clinical placement and CCE experiences (evidenced in the PebblePad e portfolio) and a case study reflection linking to placement35%
EssayProfessional issues from clinical practice25%
PresentationEvidence-based health promotion.40%

^ 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 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. 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, 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.

MIP6202|3|2