MIDI6121
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course increases students' understandings of the specialist 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 analyse midwifery, physiological, medical, pharmacological, neurophysiological and sociological theory to understand evidence informed midwifery and other health care for well postnatal women and their babies.
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 deep understandings, from a midwifery perspective, of mothering and being a family in our global society
2. clearly articulate the physiological and psychosocial changes for woman 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. critically analyse midwifery interventions which assist women and their babies with breastfeeding and to help establish lactation to improve short-term and long-term health outcomes
4. demonstrate applications of the legal, ethical, and professional frameworks for postnatal midwifery
5. identify potential health needs for postnatal women and babies from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups and women with specific ethnic and other diverse needs and their babies
6. show evidence of an ability to interpret and transmit midwifery knowledge, ideas, and health advice to postnatal women
Content
- A rights-based, evidence-informed approach to safe healthcare for women and their new babies
- Global midwifery for postnatal women and babies
- Differences in professional work: midwifery and other health professionals' contributions postnatal care
- Assessing physiological and psychosocial changes for postnatal women
- Health advice concerning physiology, nutrition, exercise, rest, pharmacology and complementary therapies for wellbeing in the first six weeks
- Strategies for sharing information: individual, and small group education skills
- 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
- The impact of the postnatal time on the first 2000 days of life
- Understanding cultural impacts: 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
Requisite
Students must be active in the Master of Midwifery (Graduate Entry) [40313] and have successfully completed MIDI6110 and MIDI6111
Assessment items
Project: Evidence-informed Postnatal Class
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Written Assignment: Social Media/Media/Artwork 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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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