MIDI2105
20 units
2000 level
Course handbook
Description
Using the concept of woman-centredness, this course provides opportunities for students to continue translating theory into practice during rostered experience in maternity units and the community with childbearing women and their babies. It is the third in a suite of six professional experience courses that is designed to prepare students for registration as a midwife. The course provides mid-level, progressive theory and skills development through simulated learning and midwifery professional experience, with particular emphasis on women with complex pregnancies and/or complex labours, and their babies.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 1 - 2024
Gosford
- Semester 1 - 2024
Manning Base Hospital
- Semester 1 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. show developing abilities to translate research and theory into practice through preparation and discovery in simulated learning sessions
2. exhibit increasing abilities for quality communication in midwifery work, especially with unwell or vulnerable women and babies
3. demonstrate increasing understandings of the legal, ethical, cultural and professional frameworks as they apply to practical situations
4. demonstrate, and reflect on, learning (knowledge, skills acquisition, attitudes, values and abilities) in midwifery work with women and their babies
5. show evidence of developing professional relationships with midwives and other members of the interdisciplinary team
6. achieve a satisfactory level of practice by demonstrating appropriate progress
Content
This course is comprised of seven modules.
- Module 1: Communication skills for working with the interdisciplinary team with unwell or vulnerable women and babies
- Module 2: Safely optimising the health and well-being of women during complex pregnancy/labour
- Module 3: Safely optimising the health and well-being compromised or vulnerable babies in utero, during labour and birth, and in the first hour after birth
- Module 4: Breast feeding and lactation: the practicalities of supporting and assisting women and their babies in complexity
- Module 5: Using pharmacological and pharmacokinetic concepts to understand prescribed drug therapies for women in complex pregnancy and labour
- Module 6: Diagnostic testing and screening tools for women with complex pregnancies and/or complex labours, and their babies
- Module 7: Legal and ethical issues: documentation in practice; trespass to person, consent and false imprisonment; intentional torts and associated moral implications
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 to enrol in this course and have successfully completed MIDI1207.
Assumed knowledge
MIDI1105 Midwife: ‘with woman’, MIDI1106 Women in pregnancy, MIDI1101 Midwifery Professional Experience 1, MIDI1207 Midwifery Professional Experience 2, MIDI1203 Women and their babies in the postnatal time, MIDI1205 Women in labour, HUBS1406 Human Bioscience for Nursing and Midwifery
Assessment items
Written Assignment: Reflective Journal
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. - Student must attend a minimum of 100% of these sessions
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan
Clinical-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 336 hour(s) per term
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Individual Supervision-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per fortnight for 6 fortnight(s) starting in week 2
- Clinical Supervision - Virtual
Laboratory-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Self-Directed Learning-1
- Self-Directed 106 hour(s) per term
Semester 1 - 2024 - Gosford
Clinical-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 336 hour(s) per term
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Individual Supervision-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per fortnight for 6 fortnight(s) starting in week 2
- Clinical Supervision - Virtual
Laboratory-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Self-Directed Learning-1
- Self-Directed 106 hour(s) per term
Semester 1 - 2024 - Manning Base Hospital
Clinical-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 336 hour(s) per term
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Individual Supervision-1
- Online 2 hour(s) per fortnight for 6 fortnight(s) starting in week 2
- Clinical Supervision - Virtual
Laboratory-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Self-Directed Learning-1
- Self-Directed 106 hour(s) per term
Course outline
- MIDI2105 - Semester 1, 2024 (All) (PDF, 237.4 KB)
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.