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 given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Women's Health and Diagnostic Reasoning
  • Unit Code

    MIT6204
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Clare Louise DAVISON

Description

This unit focuses on the well-being of women in relation to their sexual health and pregnancy. Students will be required to undertake culturally-safe health assessments and related diagnostic reasoning as applied to the practice of the midwife. A range of diagnostic tests will be introduced with the objective of having students engage with other health professionals in the assessment and review of clients in their care.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass MIT6202

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course version I80, L68

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Undertake a culturally-safe complete physical and psychological assessment on a range of women within the sexual health context.
  2. Deliver and evaluate education of women about self-care before and during pregnancy, in childbirth, and in the puerperium.
  3. Critique the interprofessional relationships required in client referral and requesting diagnostic procedures in practice.
  4. Apply diagnostic reasoning in midwifery care with a specific focus on differentiating between care contained within the scope of midwifery practice and situations to be referred to other health professionals.

Unit Content

  1. Breast self-examination.
  2. Culturally-competent counselling.
  3. Sexual health and sexual safety.
  4. Supporting the health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women before, during and between pregnancy, in childbirth, and in the puerperium.
  5. Assessing women's health.
  6. Principles of clinical reasoning and diagnostics.
  7. Routine maternal screening tests.
  8. Routine fetal assessment indicators and investigations.
  9. Ultrasonography.
  10. Contraception.
  11. Self-care for women in a cultural context.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, quizzes, online discussions, videos and readings.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Literature ReviewLiterature review on investigation and screening30%
Case StudyDiagnostic reasoning in screening and diagnostics 40%
PosterInformation poster using diagnostic reasoning 30%

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Women's Health and Diagnostic Reasoning
  • Unit Code

    MIT6204
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Clare Louise DAVISON

Description

This unit focuses on the well-being of women in relation to their sexual health and pregnancy. Students will be required to undertake culturally-safe health assessments and related diagnostic reasoning as applied to the practice of the midwife. A range of diagnostic tests will be introduced with the objective of having students engage with other health professionals in the assessment and review of clients in their care.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass MIT6202

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course version I80, L68

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Undertake a culturally-safe complete physical and psychological assessment on a range of women within the sexual health context.
  2. Deliver and evaluate education of women about self-care before and during pregnancy, in childbirth, and in the puerperium.
  3. Critique the interprofessional relationships required in client referral and requesting diagnostic procedures in practice.
  4. Apply diagnostic reasoning in midwifery care with a specific focus on differentiating between care contained within the scope of midwifery practice and situations to be referred to other health professionals.

Unit Content

  1. Breast self-examination.
  2. Culturally-competent counselling.
  3. Sexual health and sexual safety.
  4. Supporting the health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women before, during and between pregnancy, in childbirth, and in the puerperium.
  5. Assessing women's health.
  6. Principles of clinical reasoning and diagnostics.
  7. Routine maternal screening tests.
  8. Routine fetal assessment indicators and investigations.
  9. Ultrasonography.
  10. Contraception.
  11. Self-care for women in a cultural context.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, quizzes, online discussions, videos and readings.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Literature ReviewLiterature review on investigation and screening30%
Case StudyDiagnostic reasoning in screening and diagnostics 40%
PosterInformation poster using diagnostic reasoning 30%

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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