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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.

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

    Complex Care in Pregnancy, Childbirth and Puerperium

  • Unit Code

    MIT6202

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    4

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Natalie Jane STEIN

Description

This unit provides the foundation for students' theory and practice in complex midwifery care situations. The focus is on a range of pre-existing and emergent health and childbearing related conditions and diseases. Students utilise research findings and theory to develop evidence based critical problem solving skills for complex midwifery practice. This is a designated unit, which means only one attempt is allowed.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

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

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units MIP6202 and MIT6102

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course version I80

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply theoretical knowledge of antepartum, intrapartum and puerperal pathophysiology to midwifery practice.
  2. Competently assess women during pregnancy, birth and the puerperium, and interpret findings, and modify care accordingly.
  3. Explain models of care and consultation/referral processes when pregnancy, birth and the puerperium are complicated.
  4. Interpret the midwife's role of the midwife in complex care in a range of practice settings.
  5. Apply evidence-based knowledge to plans of care for the childbearing family in complex situations.

Unit Content

  1. Complications of pregnancy.
  2. Complications of labour and birth.
  3. Complications of the puerperium.
  4. Fetal complications.
  5. Neonatal complications.
  6. Care and support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and families experiencing complications of childbearing.
  7. Advanced assessment skills and techniques for midwifery practice.
  8. Collaborative interdisciplinary practice and referral.
  9. Maternal and neonatal emergency care.
  10. Mothers and neonates requiring surgery.
  11. Perineal suturing.
  12. When a woman, fetus or neonate dies 1: Bereavement and loss within a cultural context.
  13. When a woman, fetus or neonate dies 2: Midwifery care and statutory duties.

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 3 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will undertake a variety of approaches to learning. The students will also be expected to undertake Continuity of Care Experiences plus 192 hours 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.

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 placement (complex)35%
EssayInterpretation of a midwifery plan of care40%
TestOnline open book assessment contemporary clinical practice case studies.25%

^ 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.

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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.

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

    Complex Care in Pregnancy, Childbirth and Puerperium

  • Unit Code

    MIT6202

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    4

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Natalie Jane STEIN

Description

This unit provides the foundation for students' theory and practice in complex midwifery care situations. The focus is on a range of pre-existing and emergent health and childbearing related conditions and diseases. Students utilise research findings and theory to develop evidence based critical problem solving skills for complex midwifery practice. This is a designated unit, which means only one attempt is allowed.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

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

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units MIP6202 and MIT6102

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course version I80

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply theoretical knowledge of antepartum, intrapartum and puerperal pathophysiology to midwifery practice.
  2. Competently assess women during pregnancy, birth and the puerperium, and interpret findings, and modify care accordingly.
  3. Explain models of care and consultation/referral processes when pregnancy, birth and the puerperium are complicated.
  4. Interpret the midwife's role of the midwife in complex care in a range of practice settings.
  5. Apply evidence-based knowledge to plans of care for the childbearing family in complex situations.

Unit Content

  1. Complications of pregnancy.
  2. Complications of labour and birth.
  3. Complications of the puerperium.
  4. Fetal complications.
  5. Neonatal complications.
  6. Care and support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and families experiencing complications of childbearing.
  7. Advanced assessment skills and techniques for midwifery practice.
  8. Collaborative interdisciplinary practice and referral.
  9. Maternal and neonatal emergency care.
  10. Mothers and neonates requiring surgery.
  11. Perineal suturing.
  12. When a woman, fetus or neonate dies 1: Bereavement and loss within a cultural context.
  13. When a woman, fetus or neonate dies 2: Midwifery care and statutory duties.

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 3 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will undertake a variety of approaches to learning. The students will also be expected to undertake Continuity of Care Experiences plus 192 hours 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.

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 placement (complex)35%
EssayInterpretation of a midwifery plan of care40%
TestOnline open book assessment contemporary clinical practice case studies.25%

^ 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.

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