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 Care of Women and Babies with Complex Needs
  • Unit Code

    MIT4102
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Dianne Kim BLOXSOME

Description

This unit explores principles and practice underpinning the assessment and management of women, fetuses and neonates from a rage of cultural backgrounds whose health and wellbeing varies from normal. It extends earlier theoretical knowledge and clinical experiences of childbearing women and neonates, and provides students with the knowledge and skills to provide appropriate holistic care for women and babies who are at risk of or have a chronic, congenital or emergent health condition.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from MIP4209, MIT4101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NMW4115

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Anticipate and identify women, fetuses and neonates at risk of or with a chronic, congenital or emergent health condition.
  2. Demonstrate an interdiciplinary approach to care.
  3. Demonstrate the application of current evidence and best practice guidelines to plan, implement and evaluate care for women, fetuses and neonates at risk of or with a chronic, congenital or emergent health condition.
  4. Explore the relationship between the role of the midwife and the legal and ethical implications in the care of women and neonates with health challenges.
  5. Recognise conditions specific to culturally diverse groups and refer appropriately.

Unit Content

  1. Assessment of deviations from the expected norm in childbearing women and neonates.
  2. Care of childbearing women and babies experiencing health challenges in pregnancy as a consequence of congenital fetal abnormalities during labour and birth, in the postnatal period and the neonatal period.
  3. Continuity of Care experience.
  4. Cultural considerations in relation to the care of women and babies with complex needs.
  5. Ethical and legal implications in the care of childbearing women and neonates with health challenges.
  6. Support and resources within and additional to the health services.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, 80-100 hours of continuity of care experiences.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Presentation ^Group scenario and peer review50%
Examination ^Practice challenge30%
Portfolio ^Evidence of successful completion of Continuity of Care experiences20%

^ 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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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 Care of Women and Babies with Complex Needs
  • Unit Code

    MIT4102
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Clare Louise DAVISON

Description

This unit explores principles and practice underpinning the assessment and management of women, fetuses and neonates from a range of cultural backgrounds whose health and well-being varies from normal. It extends earlier theoretical knowledge and clinical experiences of caring for childbearing women and neonates, and provides students with knowledge and skills to care for women and neonates whose well-being is threatened or compromised by a chronic, emergent or congenital health condition.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from MIP4209, MIT4101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NMW4115

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Anticipate and identify women, fetuses and neonates at risk of or with a chronic, congenital or emergent health condition.
  2. Apply current evidence and national/international midwifery philosophies, definitions and frameworks to plan, implement and evaluate care for women, fetuses and neonates at risk of or with a chronic, congenital or emergent health condition.
  3. Demonstrate an interdisciplinary and woman-centred approach to care.
  4. Explain the relationship between the role of the midwife, the legal and ethical implications in the care of women and neonates with health challenges, maintaining a woman-centred approach and upholding women’s autonomy when medical intervention is recommended.
  5. Utilising a woman-centred approach, recognise conditions specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and babies and to those of other cultures, and refer appropriately.

Unit Content

  1. Assessment of deviations from the expected norm in childbearing women and neonates.
  2. Continuity of care experience.
  3. Cultural considerations in relation to the care of women and babies with complex needs.
  4. Ethical, legal and practice implications in the care of childbearing women and neonates with health challenges with reference to national/international midwifery philosophies, definitions and frameworks.
  5. Evidence-based care of childbearing women and babies experiencing health challenges in pregnancy as a consequence of congenital fetal abnormalities during labour and birth, in the postnatal period and the neonatal period.
  6. Support and resources within and additional to the health services.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 210 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online interactive learning activities, tutorials, workshops, and at least 40 hours of CoCE.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Presentation ^Group presentation and written essay50%
Test ^Online Test30%
Portfolio ^Evidence of successful completion of all Continuity of Care experiences for registration.20%

^ 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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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