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.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Midwifery Therapeutics
  • Unit Code

    MIT6203
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sara MORRIS

Description

This unit provides midwifery students with an opportunity to develop their understanding of pharmacological therapies relevant to the care for childbearing women. It is intended that this unit will provide graduates with the knowledge and skills to advocate and support women in making informed decisions about their use of pharmacotheraputics.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Online

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course version I80, L68

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Integrate knowledge of anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology as it relates to drug therapy for the childbearing woman.
  2. Develop strategies to ensure careful selection, management, monitoring and review of drug therapy, and promote the quality use of medicines.
  3. Critically evaluate drug information sources including those relevant to complementary therapies.
  4. Discuss drug therapies with women, their support team and other health professionals to ensure that informed decisions are made about prescribed and non-prescribed medications.
  5. Explain links between basic pharmacology and therapeutics.

Unit Content

  1. Drug safety teratogenic effects, breastfeeding and adverse reactions.
  2. Impact of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium on drug therapy.
  3. Impact of social lifestyle habits.
  4. Legal, ethical, moral and professional (PBS) responsibilities.
  5. Principles of immunology and vaccinations.
  6. Principles of pharmacodynamics.
  7. Quality use of medication classification.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, guest speakers, discussion, group work activities, quizzes, readings and videos

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
Case StudyCase study written assignment50%
AssignmentAlternative therapy use in pregnancy50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCase study written assignment50%
AssignmentAlternative therapy use in pregnancy50%

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

    Midwifery Therapeutics
  • Unit Code

    MIT6203
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sara MORRIS

Description

This unit provides midwifery students with an opportunity to develop their understanding of pharmacological therapies relevant to the care for childbearing women. It is intended that this unit will provide graduates with the knowledge and skills to advocate and support women in making informed decisions about their use of pharmacotheraputics.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Online

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course version I80, L68

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Integrate knowledge of anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology as it relates to drug therapy for the childbearing woman.
  2. Develop strategies to ensure careful selection, management, monitoring and review of drug therapy, and promote the quality use of medicines.
  3. Critically evaluate drug information sources including those relevant to complementary therapies.
  4. Discuss drug therapies with women, their support team and other health professionals to ensure that informed decisions are made about prescribed and non-prescribed medications.
  5. Explain links between basic pharmacology and therapeutics.

Unit Content

  1. Drug safety teratogenic effects, breastfeeding and adverse reactions.
  2. Impact of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium on drug therapy.
  3. Impact of social lifestyle habits.
  4. Legal, ethical, moral and professional (PBS) responsibilities.
  5. Principles of immunology and vaccinations.
  6. Principles of pharmacodynamics.
  7. Quality use of medication classification.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, guest speakers, discussion, group work activities, quizzes, readings and videos

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
Case StudyCase study written assignment50%
AssignmentAlternative therapy use in pregnancy50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCase study written assignment50%
AssignmentAlternative therapy use in pregnancy50%

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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