MIDI6112
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
Students will begin to translate theoretical concepts into midwifery work with women and babies: woman-centredness, culturally safe care, working in primary health care, legal, ethical and professional issues, reflexive practice and working in a maternity health environment. The course includes professional experiences, in continuity of midwifery care and/or rostered work in maternity units and the community, with emphasis on well women and babies. This is the first in a suite of four professional experience courses designed to prepare postgraduate students for registration as a midwife. The course analyses the practical processes of antenatal assessment, care, and evaluation, building on students' prior healthcare knowledge and skills towards knowledge and skills for midwifery work with, and for, pregnant women.
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. communicate appropriately and capably in a midwifery context
2. demonstrate understandings of reflective/reflexive practice
3. translate theory into practice in simulated midwifery learning sessions
4. articulate insights into the legal, ethical, cultural and professional frameworks for midwifery practice
5. use evidence-based health skills in the maternity health care environment
6. show capabilities in critical thinking, academic reading and writing, and digital technology.
Content
- Reflection on action: understanding the cultural self in practice
- Thinking about thinking: the reflexive self in practice
- Quality communication with women and families
- Working in the maternity healthcare team
- Working as a student midwife: hopes, expectations, practicalities, challenges
- Antenatal assessment
- Specific midwifery documentation
- Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and th equality use of medicines
- Legal and ethical issues in midwifery care: informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, work health and safety, quality and safety frameworks for medication administration
- Research review: Presenting quality research evidence to women
- Advocacy: Individual responsibility, collective action
Requisite
Students must be enrolled in the Master of Midwifery (Graduate Entry) [40313] or be active in the Graduate Certificate in Midwifery (Re-Entry to practice) program [40314] to enrol in this course.
Assumed knowledge
Students in the Master of Midwifery (Graduate Entry) program should be concurrently enrolled in or have successfully completed MIDI6110 and MIDI6111.
Assessment items
Written Assignment: Reflective Journal (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Professional Task: Midwifery Practice Progression - Clinical (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
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 1 - 2024 - Callaghan
Clinical-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 200 hour(s) per term
- M MidI (Grad Entry) - 50 hours (approx) off-campus f2f hrs, min 3 & max 5 'continuity of care experiences'.GC Midi (Re-entry to prac) - 200 hrs/term incl. 160 hours/term (2 days/wk x 10 wks) and approx 40 hrs/term with 2 continuity of care experience
Individual Supervision-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 6 hour(s) per term
- Clinical Supervision
Practical-1
- Face to Face On Campus 36 hour(s) per term
- Simulated Learning
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 12 hour(s) per term
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Semester 1 - 2024 - Gosford
Clinical-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 200 hour(s) per term
- M MidI (Grad Entry) - 50 hours (approx) off-campus f2f hrs, min 3 & max 5 'continuity of care experiences'.GC Midi (Re-entry to prac) - 200 hrs/term incl. 160 hours/term (2 days/wk x 10 wks) and approx 40 hrs/term with 2 continuity of care experience
Individual Supervision-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 6 hour(s) per term
- Clinical Supervision
Practical-1
- Face to Face On Campus 36 hour(s) per term
- Simulated Learning
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 12 hour(s) per term
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Semester 1 - 2024 - Manning Base Hospital
Clinical-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 200 hour(s) per term
- M MidI (Grad Entry) - 50 hours (approx) off-campus f2f hrs, min 3 & max 5 'continuity of care experiences'.GC Midi (Re-entry to prac) - 200 hrs/term incl. 160 hours/term (2 days/wk x 10 wks) and approx 40 hrs/term with 2 continuity of care experience
Individual Supervision-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 6 hour(s) per term
- Clinical Supervision
Practical-1
- Face to Face On Campus 36 hour(s) per term
- Simulated Learning
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 12 hour(s) per term
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Course outline
- MIDI6112 - Semester 1, 2024 (All) (PDF, 269.9 KB)
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