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Unit of Study MIDW2002 - Optimising Health in Childbearing I (2022)

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  • Enrolment information

    This unit contains professional experience learning/ laboratory activities that require students to meet mandatory compliance requirements prior to attending. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the Professional Experience Learning and/or stipulated Laboratory Activity which may result in failure of the unit. Full details are available at https://www.scu.edu.au/health/health-placements/. Please note Full Covid-19 vaccination is a mandatory requirement associated with the placement element of this unit of study. This requirement has been stipulated by the placement providers. It is strongly recommended that only students who meet this requirement enrol in this unit.

Unit description

Provides a holistic perspective on the role of the midwife in relation to working with the well woman and her baby across the antenatal period, labour and birth. Students will discuss the psychophysiological responses in the antenatal period, labour and birth.

Unit content

  • The psychophysiological responses to preconception and conception
  • The psychophysiological responses to (normal) pregnancy and growing healthy babies
  • Midwifery care for the well woman and her fetus(es)/baby(ies) during the antenatal period
  • The psychophysiological responses to labour and birth
  • Midwifery care for the well woman and her fetus/baby during labour and birth
  • Medications

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Session2
Session2
Gold Coast
Session2
Session2

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:

provide evidence-informed midwifery care for the well woman and her fetus/baby across the antenatal period, labour and birth

explain and summarise the psychophysiological responses during the antenatal period, labour and birth

explore the midwife’s role as facilitator to support women in decision-making that optimises health and wellbeing in the antenatal period, labour and birth

demonstrate and apply midwifery knowledge and skills to effectively undertake a basic neonatal resuscitation

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Chapman, V & Charles, C, 2018, The midwife’s labour and birth handbook, 4th edn, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, West Sussex.
  • Johnson, R, Taylor, W, De-vitry Smith, S & Bayes, S, 2019, Skills for Midwifery Practice, Australian & New Zealand Edition, Elsevier, Australia. ISBN: 978-0-7295-4277-7.
  • Pairman, S, Tracy, S, Dahlen, H & Dixon, L, 2019, Midwifery: preparation for practice, 4th edn, Churchill Livingstone – Elsevier, NSW. ISBN: 9780729542678.
  • Rankin, J, 2017, Physiology in Childbearing: With Anatomy and Related Biosciences, 4th edn, Elsevier, Edinburgh. ISBN: 978-0-7020-6188-2.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.