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Unit of Study MIDW1006 - Midwifery Professional Experience 1 (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    Yes

  • Enrolment information

    This unit contains Work Integrated Learning (WIL) activities that require students to meet mandatory fit to practice obligations prior to attending. Failure to comply by the fit to practice deadline will result in the cancellation of your WIL activity. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/healthplacements.

Unit description

Ensures students learn the foundational skills required for entry to the health care environment. This unit promotes the translation of theory into the practice of midwifery for well women and babies including antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. It prepares the first-year midwifery student to practise in accordance with the principles of best practice, safety, quality and partnership and the boundaries of regulatory documents.  

Unit content

  1. Clinical governance in the maternity care environment
  2. Communicating in the health care environment
  3. Preventing and controlling infections
  4. Providing comprehensive care for well women and their babies
  5. Medication safety
  6. ANMAC Midwifery Professional Experiences (MPE) requirements

 

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Dual Term2
Dual Term2
Gold Coast
Dual Term2
Dual Term2

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

show foundational abilities in understanding and applying research and theory into practice using written and verbal communication modes

exhibit emerging understandings of the legal, ethical, cultural and professional frameworks through reflection on practice

demonstrate competency in numeracy and simple medication calculations

demonstrate a satisfactory level of progression towards the ANMAC Midwifery Professional Experiences (MPE) requirements

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • De-Vitry Smith, S., & Bayes, S., 2019, Skills for midwifery practice Australian & New Zealand edition, Elsevier, Chatswood, NSW. ISBN: 9780729542777.
  • Pairman, S., Tracy, S. K., Dahlen, H., & Dixon, L., 2019, Midwifery: preparation for practice, 4th edn, Elsevier, Chatswood, NSW. ISBN: 9780729542678.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.