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Unit of Study MWF20003 - Optimising Health in Complex Childbearing (2016)

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Unit description

Develops students' knowledge and skills to provide collaborative care for women who require complex assessments and/or medical interventions during childbearing. Students also learn to care for women and/or babies who have relatively common challenges or disorders during the childbearing period. This unit is taught concurrently with MWF20004 - Midwifery Practice in Complex Childbearing which is where the related clinical skills and placement experiences occur.

Unit content

Module 1: Complex Assessments and Interventions

Module 2: Complex disorders in childbearing

Module 3: Common Postnatal Complications

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour Session 2 Session 2
Gold Coast Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 apply theoretical and evidence-based knowledge to midwifery care for women who require complex assessments and/or medical interventions during childbearing
2 identify and summarise the theoretical and evidence-based knowledge needed to be able to provide midwifery care to women and/or babies who have relatively common challenges or disorders during childbearing, including where drugs or alcohol are used during childbearing
3 explain and analyse the theoretical and evidence-based knowledge needed to be able to provide midwifery care to women with common mental health concerns during childbearing, including anxiety, depression, grief and loss
4 apply clinical decision-making when caring for women & babies when complexities exist and/or arise.

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

  1. apply theoretical and evidence-based knowledge to midwifery care for women who require complex assessments and/or medical interventions during childbearing
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  2. identify and summarise the theoretical and evidence-based knowledge needed to be able to provide midwifery care to women and/or babies who have relatively common challenges or disorders during childbearing, including where drugs or alcohol are used during childbearing
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  3. explain and analyse the theoretical and evidence-based knowledge needed to be able to provide midwifery care to women with common mental health concerns during childbearing, including anxiety, depression, grief and loss
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  4. apply clinical decision-making when caring for women & babies when complexities exist and/or arise.
    • GA4:

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