| Utilising a case study approach, this unit provides the knowledge required to enable the student midwife to provide holistic, evidence-based care to childbearing women experiencing medical/surgical/obstetric complications to achieve optimal outcomes within a collaborative team. Risk factors for pregnancy and management and treatment of these conditions will include sexually transmitted infections, diabetes in pregnancy, hepatic and renal disease, early bleeding and uterine abnormalities, Rheumatic Heart Disease, hyperemesis, early pregnancy loss, thromboembolis, rhesus isoimmunisation, multiple pregnancy, pharmacokinetics, bleeding during pregnancy and postnatal depression and psychosis. The student will develop an understanding of when to identify what is abnormal in pregnancy and the risks for the mother and foetus if these conditions are not treated.
This unit will consolidate all knowledge learnt throughout the course and is a co-requisite unit for MID306, a 240 hour clinical practicum capstone unit to provide experiential learning for the content within this unit.
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