MIDI6212Midwifery Professional Experience 3

Course handbook

Description

Using the concept of woman-centredness, this course provides opportunities for postgraduate students to continue translating specialist theory into practice during rostered experience/continuity experiences in maternity units and the community with childbearing women and their babies. It is the third in a suite of four professional experience courses designed to prepare postgraduate students for registration as a midwife. The course provides high-level, progressive theory and technical skills development through simulated learning and midwifery professional experience, with particular emphasis on women and their babies in complexity.

Availability2024 Course Timetables

Learning outcomes

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

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

2. exhibit complex communication in midwifery work, especially with/for unwell or vulnerable women and babies and with the multidisciplinary team

3. apply high-level understandings of the legal, ethical, cultural, pharmacological, and professional frameworks/protocols to practical maternity situations

4. demonstrate, and reflect/be reflexive on, specialist learning (knowledge, skills acquisition, attitudes, values and abilities) in/from midwifery work with unwell/vulnerable women and compromised babies

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

Content

This course is comprised of six modules:

Module 1: Advanced communication, and complex legal and ethical issues when working in 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/postnatal

Module 3: Safely optimising the health and well-being of compromised or vulnerable babies in utero, during labour and birth, and in the postnatal period

Module 4: Specific drug therapies for women in complex pregnancy, labour and postnatal and for compromised babies

Module 5: Diagnostic testing and screening tools for women and their fetus/baby with/in complex pregnancy, labour and birth, and/or the postnatal period

Module 6: Skills for the full scope of midwifery practice: cannulation, perineal repair, and well-baby assessment prior to discharge

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 MIDI6124 and 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 1 - 2024 - Callaghan

Semester 1 - 2024 - Gosford

Semester 1 - 2024 - Manning Base Hospital

Course outline

• MIDI6212 - Semester 1, 2024 (All) (PDF, 291.6 KB)