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

    Postnatal Care of Women and their Families
  • Unit Code

    MIT3102
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Kieran KENNY

Description

This unit focuses on culturally safe evidence-based physiological, psychological, emotional and social wellbeing postnatal care of well women/birthing people and their families. Students will acquire knowledge of, and develop further understanding in woman [person]-centred postnatal care; and be introduced to 8ways and its impact on childrearing practices for Aboriginal people. The relationship of legislation and ethical codes of practice to national and international standards of care will also be examined.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed MIT2102 and MIP2104.

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

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Outline the anatomy and physiological changes in the postpartum period for women and their babies.
  2. Apply the principles of clinical decision-making to plan and evaluate safe, culturally competent, inclusive, holistic, evidence-based care for women, babies and their families in the postpartum period.
  3. Describe the socio-cultural dimensions of infant nutrition and breastfeeding in Australia and globally, which impact on promotion and protection of breastfeeding.
  4. Investigate Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples 'ways of knowing' and how they influence the process of childrearing practices and the profession of midwifery.

Unit Content

  1. Legal, ethical, philosophical, definitive and practice frameworks for midwifery care.
  2. Challenges to early parenting and support resources.
  3. Comprehensive woman-centred midwifery assessment and care of postnatal women.
  4. Postnatal services.
  5. Culturally sensitive postnatal care and 8ways.
  6. Evidence-based practice.
  7. Promotion and protection of breastfeeding.
  8. Infant nutrition.
  9. Transition to parenthood.
  10. Assertive communication skills.
  11. Consultation and collaboration.

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
EssayThe cultural and social beliefs and practices that influence breastfeeding.40%
PresentationIndividual video presentation of a parent education session on the postnatal period40%
TestOnline timed test consisting of short and long answer questions.20%

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

    Postnatal Care of Women and their Families
  • Unit Code

    MIT3102
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Kieran KENNY

Description

This unit focuses on culturally safe evidence-based physiological, psychological, emotional and social wellbeing postnatal care of well women/birthing people and their families. Students will acquire knowledge of, and develop further understanding in woman [person]-centred postnatal care; and be introduced to 8ways and its impact on childrearing practices for Aboriginal people. The relationship of legislation and ethical codes of practice to national and international standards of care will also be examined.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed MIT2102 and MIP2104.

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

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Outline the anatomy and physiological changes in the postpartum period for women and their babies.
  2. Apply the principles of clinical decision-making to plan and evaluate safe, culturally competent, inclusive, holistic, evidence-based care for women, babies and their families in the postpartum period.
  3. Describe the socio-cultural dimensions of infant nutrition and breastfeeding in Australia and globally, which impact on promotion and protection of breastfeeding.
  4. Investigate Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples 'ways of knowing' and how they influence the process of childrearing practices and the profession of midwifery.

Unit Content

  1. Legal, ethical, philosophical, definitive and practice frameworks for midwifery care.
  2. Challenges to early parenting and support resources.
  3. Comprehensive woman-centred midwifery assessment and care of postnatal women.
  4. Postnatal services.
  5. Culturally sensitive postnatal care and 8ways.
  6. Evidence-based practice.
  7. Promotion and protection of breastfeeding.
  8. Infant nutrition.
  9. Transition to parenthood.
  10. Assertive communication skills.
  11. Consultation and collaboration.

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
EssayThe cultural and social beliefs and practices that influence breastfeeding.40%
PresentationIndividual video presentation of a parent education session on the postnatal period40%
TestOnline timed test consisting of short and long answer questions.20%

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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