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Unit of Study MIDW2010 - Midwifery Professional Experience 2a (2025)

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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) that requires 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 and you will not be permitted to continue in this unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/health/work-integrated-learning.

Unit description

Promotes the continued development and translation of theory into practice with a focus on women and babies requiring complex antenatal and intrapartum care. It provides theory and skill development as well as specific clinical learning objectives aligned with the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards: Medication Safety, Communicating for Safety, Blood Management and Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration in the context of providing woman-centred care when the woman experiences complexities. This unit is the first of two units comprising a year-long placement unit and builds on the knowledge and skills acquired in Midwifery Professional Experience 1.    

Unit content

  1. Midwifery knowledge, skills and scope of practice in safely administering medication and blood products
  2. Communication, collaboration, and partnership within the maternity unit with the woman and other health professionals to ensure positive health outcomes for women with complex care needs in the antenatal period.
  3. Communication, collaboration and partnership within the maternity unit with the woman and other health professionals to ensure positive health outcomes for women with complex care needs in the intrapartum period.
  4. The midwife’s role, responsibility, and accountability for recognition of and response to the deteriorating maternal patient and or fetus/infant
  5. ANMAC Midwifery Professional Experiences (MPE) requirements
  6. Clinical supervision and debriefing

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Tri Term1
Tri Term1
Gold Coast
Tri Term1
Tri Term1

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 intermediate abilities to translate research and theory into practice through written and verbal communication mode

demonstrate intermediate understandings of the legal, ethical, cultural and professional frameworks through reflection on practice

demonstrate competency in medication safety, blood management, and recognising and responding to acute deterioration, in a simulated environment

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., 2022, Skills for midwifery practice Australian & New Zealand edition, 2nd edn, Elsevier, Chatswood, NSW. ISBN: 9780729543798.
  • Pairman, S., Tracy, S. K., Dahlen, H., & Dixon, L., 2023, Midwifery: preparation for practice, 5th edn, Elsevier, Chatswood, NSW. ISBN: 9780729543811.
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