MIDI1203
10 units
1000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course facilitates students’ understandings in the theory of postnatal transitions: from pregnant and labouring woman to mothering a new baby; from couples/singles to mother-baby dyad/family; from labour to physical recovery and lactation; from in utero to extra uterine life. Using woman centredness as philosophy and approach to practice, and starting with a view that childbearing and breastfeeding are normal life events, students use midwifery, physiological, medical, pharmacological, neurophysiological and sociological theory understand evidence informed midwifery and other health care for well postnatal women and their babies. Further foundational legal concepts for midwifery are introduced.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 2 - 2024
Gosford
- Semester 2 - 2024
Manning Base Hospital
- Semester 2 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. show understandings, from a midwifery perspective, of mothering and being a family in our society
2. describe the physiological and psychosocial changes for women and babies in the first hour, first week, and first six weeks after a baby's birth and the accompanying evidence-informed midwifery care
3. articulate midwifery interventions which assist women and their babies with breast feeding and to help establish lactation to improve short-term and long-term outcomes
4. demonstrate beginning understandings of the legal, ethical, and professional frameworks for postnatal midwifery
5. identify health needs for postnatal women and babies from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups and culturally and linguistically diverse groups
6. develop early abilities in critical thinking, academic reading and writing, and the use of digital technology
Content
- A rights-based, evidence-informed approach to safe healthcare for women and their new babies
- Assessing physiological and psychosocial changes for postnatal women
- Nutrition, exercise, pharmacology and complementary therapies for wellbeing in the first six weeks
- The new baby: adaptation to ‘extrauterine life’, immediate assessment and care at birth, the first hour after birth, neonatal examination and testing, daily care and basic neonatal resuscitation
- Human lactation, breastfeeding support and artificial feeding
- Pharmacology in the postnatal time, including contraception
- Understanding families: family and relationship theories, structures, roles, dynamics and adaptation
- The impact of the postnatal time on the first 2000 days of life
- Understanding cultural dynamics: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their babies, and women with specific ethnic and other diverse needs and their babies
- Other postnatal needs: women with disabilities, the adolescent as mother, socially disadvantaged women, and unsupported women
- Community resources and services available postnatally
- Legal and ethical issues: Competence; protecting children; work, health and safety
Requisite
Students must be active in the Bachelor of Midwifery [40297] or [12200] program to enrol in this course.
Assumed knowledge
MIDI1105HUBS1406
Assessment items
Presentation: Postnatal class presentation
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Written Assignment: Media analysis
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Contact hours
Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan
Lecture-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
- Lectures are Virtual.
Self-Directed Learning-1
- Self-Directed 72 hour(s) per term
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 4 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 1
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 80% of sessions.
Semester 2 - 2024 - Gosford
Lecture-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
- Lectures are Virtual.
Self-Directed Learning-1
- Self-Directed 72 hour(s) per term
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 4 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 1
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 80% of sessions.
Semester 2 - 2024 - Manning Base Hospital
Lecture-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
- Lectures are Virtual.
Self-Directed Learning-1
- Self-Directed 72 hour(s) per term
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 4 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 1
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 80% of sessions.
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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