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

    Dimensions of Healthy Childbearing
  • Unit Code

    MIT1101
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jacqueline TAYLOR

Description

In this unit, students will explore and develop knowledge about the range of ways in which women/birthing people can be supported towards optimal preconception, antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum health and wellbeing in a manner that is inclusive and culturally appropriate. This unit will focus on optimising the health and wellbeing of women/birthing people and their families throughout the childbearing episode, within a woman-centred [person-centred] physiological, psychosocial and emotional context. Models of maternity care and the evidence about the effect on the health and wellbeing of childbearing women/birthing people and their babies will also be considered.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This is an on-campus unit that includes a continuity of care experience (CoCE) requirement.

Prerequisite Rule

Only students studying Bachelor of Science (Nursing)/Bachelor of Science (Midwifery) (Y76) can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NMW1109

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply evidence based woman-centred health promotion techniques related to preconception, antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum health and well-being.
  2. Examine the potential impact of womens experience of childbearing on the family.
  3. Describe the key factors that influence the childbearing womans health and wellbeing.
  4. Discuss the need to provide maternity care in a manner that is inclusive of all.
  5. Evaluate normal physiological and psychosocial adaptations to pregnancy.

Unit Content

  1. Partnership with woman.
  2. Cultural considerations in health promotion related to childbearing.
  3. Evidence based woman-centred promotion of physical and psychosocial health and wellbeing before, during and after childbearing.
  4. Assessing and recording the physical and psychosocial health and wellbeing of women before, during and after pregnancy.
  5. Anatomical, physiological alterations and adaptations in pregnancy.
  6. Conception, embryology and fetal development.
  7. Introduction to the Midwifery Experiences and Continuity of Care Experiences (CCE) Workbook.
  8. Models of maternity care and their known effects on the health and wellbeing of childbearing women and babies with reference to Australian College of Midwives and International Confederation of Midwives recommendations.
  9. Effective communication 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 113 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered13 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayKnowledge and understanding of care planning for childbearing women 30%
PresentationDemonstrate understanding of key concepts in health promotion for childbearing women.20%
TestMCQ and Short Answer50%

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

    Dimensions of Healthy Childbearing
  • Unit Code

    MIT1101
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jacqueline TAYLOR

Description

In this unit, students will explore and develop knowledge about the range of ways in which women/birthing people can be supported towards optimal preconception, antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum health and wellbeing in a manner that is inclusive and culturally appropriate. This unit will focus on optimising the health and wellbeing of women/birthing people and their families throughout the childbearing episode, within a woman-centred [person-centred] physiological, psychosocial and emotional context. Models of maternity care and the evidence about the effect on the health and wellbeing of childbearing women/birthing people and their babies will also be considered.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This is an on-campus unit that includes a continuity of care experience (CoCE) requirement.

Prerequisite Rule

Only students studying Bachelor of Science (Nursing)/Bachelor of Science (Midwifery) (Y76) can enrol in this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NMW1109

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply evidence based woman-centred health promotion techniques related to preconception, antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum health and well-being.
  2. Examine the potential impact of womens experience of childbearing on the family.
  3. Describe the key factors that influence the childbearing womans health and wellbeing.
  4. Discuss the need to provide maternity care in a manner that is inclusive of all.
  5. Evaluate normal physiological and psychosocial adaptations to pregnancy.

Unit Content

  1. Partnership with woman.
  2. Cultural considerations in health promotion related to childbearing.
  3. Evidence based woman-centred promotion of physical and psychosocial health and wellbeing before, during and after childbearing.
  4. Assessing and recording the physical and psychosocial health and wellbeing of women before, during and after pregnancy.
  5. Anatomical, physiological alterations and adaptations in pregnancy.
  6. Conception, embryology and fetal development.
  7. Introduction to the Midwifery Experiences and Continuity of Care Experiences (CCE) Workbook.
  8. Models of maternity care and their known effects on the health and wellbeing of childbearing women and babies with reference to Australian College of Midwives and International Confederation of Midwives recommendations.
  9. Effective communication 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 113 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered13 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayKnowledge and understanding of care planning for childbearing women 30%
PresentationDemonstrate understanding of key concepts in health promotion for childbearing women.20%
TestMCQ and Short Answer50%

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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