MIDI6124
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
Using the specialist concept of woman-centredness and building on their knowledge and skills as a registered health professional, this course provides students with a variety of professional experiences: continuity of midwifery care and/or rostered work in maternity units and the community, with emphasis on well women and babies. As the second in a suite of four professional experience courses designed to prepare postgraduate students for registration as a midwife, it provides progressive specialist theory and technical skill development through simulated learning and midwifery professional experience.
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. critically analyse research and translate theory into midwifery practice through preparation and discovery in simulated learning sessions
2. exhibit high-level quality communication in midwifery work with women and their babies
3. clearly apply the legal, ethical, cultural and professional frameworks to maternity care situations
4. demonstrate, and reflect/be reflexive on, specialist learning (knowledge, skills acquisition, attitudes, values and abilities) in/from midwifery work with women and their babies
5. show evidence of professional relationships with midwives and other members of the interdisciplinary team
6. achieve a satisfactory level of professional practice by demonstrating appropriate progress
Content
This course is comprised of five modules:
Module 1: Advanced communication skills for working with childbearing women and in the maternity care team.
Module 2: Safely optimising the health and well-being of women and their babies during labour and the first hour post birth.
Module 3: Safely optimising the health and well-being of well women and their babies in early postnatal time.
Module 4: Breast feeding and lactation: supporting and assisting women and their babies
Module 5: Legal and ethical issues:
- Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and the quality use of medicines
- Documentation
- Ethical frameworks
- 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 have successfully completed MIDI6112 and must be enrolled in the Master of Midwifery (Graduate Entry) [40313] program to enrol in this course.
Assessment items
Journal: Reflective Journal (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Professional Task: Clinical - Midwifery Practice Progression (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 2 - 2024 - Callaghan
Clinical-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 336 hour(s) per term
- a) Complete working with a min of 3 and a max of 7 women as 'continuity of care experiences'b) Rostered midwifery exp: paid employment as a student midwife/registered nurse in a Maternity Unit at 0.6 FTE for 14 weeks = approximately 336 hrs (or equiv).
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Individual Supervision-1
- Face to Face On Campus 6 hour(s) per term
- Clinical Supervision
Laboratory-1
- Face to Face On Campus 6 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 1
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Semester 2 - 2024 - Gosford
Clinical-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 336 hour(s) per term
- a) Complete working with a min of 3 and a max of 7 women as 'continuity of care experiences'b) Rostered midwifery exp: paid employment as a student midwife/registered nurse in a Maternity Unit at 0.6 FTE for 14 weeks = approximately 336 hrs (or equiv).
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Individual Supervision-1
- Face to Face On Campus 6 hour(s) per term
- Clinical Supervision
Laboratory-1
- Face to Face On Campus 6 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 1
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Semester 2 - 2024 - Manning Base Hospital
Clinical-1
- Face to Face Off Campus 336 hour(s) per term
- a) Complete working with a min of 3 and a max of 7 women as 'continuity of care experiences'b) Rostered midwifery exp: paid employment as a student midwife/registered nurse in a Maternity Unit at 0.6 FTE for 14 weeks = approximately 336 hrs (or equiv).
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Individual Supervision-1
- Face to Face On Campus 6 hour(s) per term
- Clinical Supervision
Laboratory-1
- Face to Face On Campus 6 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s) starting in week 1
- Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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