MIDI1207Midwifery Professional Experience 2

Course handbook

Description

Using the foundational concept of woman-centredness, this course provides opportunities for students to begin to translate theory into practice as they undertake their first professional midwifery experiences in the maternity practice areas. The course includes rostered work in maternity units and the community with childbearing women and their babies with particular emphasis on well women. This is the second in a suite of six professional experience courses designed to prepare students for registration as a midwife. The course provides beginning-level, progressive theory and skill development through simulated learning and midwifery professional experience.

Availability2024 Course Timetables

Replacing course(s)

This course replaces the following course(s): MIDI1204. Students who have successfully completed MIDI1204 are not eligible to enrol in MIDI1207.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. translate research and theory into practice through preparation and discovery in simulated learning sessions

2. exhibit quality communication in midwifery work with women and their babies

3. demonstrate increasing awareness of the legal, ethical, cultural and professional frameworks as they apply to practical situations

4. demonstrate, and reflect on, their learning in/from midwifery work with women and their babies

5. show evidence of the early development of professional relationships with midwives and other members of the interdisciplinary team

6. achieve a satisfactory level of practice by demonstrating appropriate progress

Content

• Module 1: Communication skills for working with well women and their babies in childbearing
• Module 2: Safely optimising the health and well-being of women during labour and for their babies before and after birth
• Module 3: Safely optimising the health and well-being of well women and their babies in the early postnatal time
• Module 4: Breast feeding and lactation: the practicalities of supporting and assisting women and their babies
• Module 5: Evidence and safety frameworks to promote quality and safety in medication administration   
• Module 6: Legal and ethical issues: documentation in practice, ethical frameworks for practice, occupational violence 

Review of Progress

This course is a compulsory program requirement and is monitored for academic progress purposes. The course must be completed to progress in the program or meet other program requirements.

Failure or withdrawal from this course will result in students being considered under the Student Academic Progress Procedure.

Requisite

Students must be active in the Bachelor of Midwifery [40297] program

and have successfully completed

MIDI1101 to enrol in this course.

Students who have successfully completed MIDI1204 cannot enrol in this course.

Assessment items

Journal: Reflective Journal Submission 1
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.

Professional Task: Midwifery Practice Progression
Compulsory Requirement: Demonstrate competency - Must demonstrate competency in all required professional skills.

Compulsory Requirements

Compulsory Placement and WHS Requirements:

• NSW Health Verification Requirements - Mandatory NSW Health Verification Requirements must be met.

Contact hours

Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan

Semester 2 - 2024 - Gosford

Semester 2 - 2024 - Manning Base Hospital

Course outline

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