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

    Women's Health and Diagnostic Reasoning
  • Unit Code

    MIT6204
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Natalie Jane STEIN

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.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

E-learning support and 1 day on campus workshop

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 via ECU’s LMS 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 School Progression Panel.

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 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

    Women's Health and Diagnostic Reasoning
  • Unit Code

    MIT6204
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Natalie Jane STEIN

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.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

E-learning support and 1 day on campus workshop

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 via ECU’s LMS 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 School Progression Panel.

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 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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