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MID306 - Professional Midwifery Practice 4

2024

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Midwifery

Credit Points

Equivalent Units

Prerequisites

Must have passed 1 unit in (MID204) AND Must have passed 1 unit in (MID303)

Incompatible

Assumed Knowledge

Unit Description

The midwife assesses, plans, provides and evaluates safe and effective midwifery care for the woman and/or baby with complex needs. The purpose of this unit is to provide 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.

Relevance to midwifery: Midwives follow women across the interface between the community and the hospital: in any setting, including the home, the community, hospitals, or in any other maternity service (NMBA, 2006). The midwife is required to comprehensively and accurately assess the needs of women and their babies throughout the childbearing episode and where women and/or their babies have complex needs or complications, provide midwifery care in collaboration with other health professionals.

This unit is the capstone unit that enables the student midwife to assess independently in all areas of midwifery practice and practice as a beginning practitioner. Students must also complete a Clinical Assessment Portfolio that provides a formative and summative assessment associated with a 240 hr clinical placement.

This unit is a co-requisite with MID305 Health Childbearing 4. Students must enrol for MID305 and MID306 in the same teaching period.

Online enrolment is not available and students must submit an application for special enrolment through CDU Portal. Prior to submitting a special enrolment, it is important students confirm they have met the required prerequisites of the unit.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Provide ethically justifiable, culturally safe maternity care in collaboration with other members of the health care team for women and their families with complex needs.
2.	Use the principles of midwifery assessment, evidence-informed care to identify and manage a range of clinical situations and utilise the ACM National Guidelines for Consultation and Referral in practice.
3.	Reflect on the ways in which self awareness and resilience can enable midwives to sustain working with bereaved families.
4.	Apply knowledge of legislation and statutory requirements pertaining to termination of pregnancy, stillbirth and neonatal death.
5.	Demonstrate understanding of child protection laws relating to mandatory reporting.
6.	Demonstrate midwifery competency based upon the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice and understand the process for Midwifery Practice Review.
7.	Demonstrate understanding of definitions, regulations, requirements and collaborative arrangements for eligible midwife independent practitioners with prescribing rights and scheduled medicines endorsement.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Reflection on transition to being a registered midwife	PU	1 - Provide ethically justifiable, culturally safe maternity care in collaboration with other members of the health care team for women and their families with complex needs. 2 - Use the principles of midwifery assessment, evidence-informed care to identify and manage a range of clinical situations and utilise the ACM National Guidelines for Consultation and Referral in practice. 3 - Reflect on the ways in which self awareness and resilience can enable midwives to sustain working with bereaved families. 4 - Apply knowledge of legislation and statutory requirements pertaining to termination of pregnancy, stillbirth and neonatal death. 5 - Demonstrate understanding of child protection laws relating to mandatory reporting. 6 - Demonstrate midwifery competency based upon the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice and understand the process for Midwifery Practice Review. 7 - Demonstrate understanding of definitions, regulations, requirements and collaborative arrangements for eligible midwife independent practitioners with prescribing rights and scheduled medicines endorsement.
2.	Clinical Assessment Portfolio- completion on clinical placement (Hurdle)	PU	1 - Provide ethically justifiable, culturally safe maternity care in collaboration with other members of the health care team for women and their families with complex needs. 2 - Use the principles of midwifery assessment, evidence-informed care to identify and manage a range of clinical situations and utilise the ACM National Guidelines for Consultation and Referral in practice. 3 - Reflect on the ways in which self awareness and resilience can enable midwives to sustain working with bereaved families. 4 - Apply knowledge of legislation and statutory requirements pertaining to termination of pregnancy, stillbirth and neonatal death. 5 - Demonstrate understanding of child protection laws relating to mandatory reporting. 6 - Demonstrate midwifery competency based upon the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice and understand the process for Midwifery Practice Review. 7 - Demonstrate understanding of definitions, regulations, requirements and collaborative arrangements for eligible midwife independent practitioners with prescribing rights and scheduled medicines endorsement.
3.	240 hours clinical placement (Hurdle)	PU	1 - Provide ethically justifiable, culturally safe maternity care in collaboration with other members of the health care team for women and their families with complex needs. 2 - Use the principles of midwifery assessment, evidence-informed care to identify and manage a range of clinical situations and utilise the ACM National Guidelines for Consultation and Referral in practice. 3 - Reflect on the ways in which self awareness and resilience can enable midwives to sustain working with bereaved families. 4 - Apply knowledge of legislation and statutory requirements pertaining to termination of pregnancy, stillbirth and neonatal death. 5 - Demonstrate understanding of child protection laws relating to mandatory reporting. 6 - Demonstrate midwifery competency based upon the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice and understand the process for Midwifery Practice Review. 7 - Demonstrate understanding of definitions, regulations, requirements and collaborative arrangements for eligible midwife independent practitioners with prescribing rights and scheduled medicines endorsement.
4.	Clinical Practice Record Section 1 - Record of Clinical Experience (Hurdle)	PU	1 - Provide ethically justifiable, culturally safe maternity care in collaboration with other members of the health care team for women and their families with complex needs. 2 - Use the principles of midwifery assessment, evidence-informed care to identify and manage a range of clinical situations and utilise the ACM National Guidelines for Consultation and Referral in practice. 3 - Reflect on the ways in which self awareness and resilience can enable midwives to sustain working with bereaved families. 4 - Apply knowledge of legislation and statutory requirements pertaining to termination of pregnancy, stillbirth and neonatal death. 5 - Demonstrate understanding of child protection laws relating to mandatory reporting. 6 - Demonstrate midwifery competency based upon the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice and understand the process for Midwifery Practice Review. 7 - Demonstrate understanding of definitions, regulations, requirements and collaborative arrangements for eligible midwife independent practitioners with prescribing rights and scheduled medicines endorsement.
5.	Clinical Practice Record Section 2 - Continuity of Care Experiences (Hurdle)	PU	1 - Provide ethically justifiable, culturally safe maternity care in collaboration with other members of the health care team for women and their families with complex needs. 2 - Use the principles of midwifery assessment, evidence-informed care to identify and manage a range of clinical situations and utilise the ACM National Guidelines for Consultation and Referral in practice. 3 - Reflect on the ways in which self awareness and resilience can enable midwives to sustain working with bereaved families. 4 - Apply knowledge of legislation and statutory requirements pertaining to termination of pregnancy, stillbirth and neonatal death. 5 - Demonstrate understanding of child protection laws relating to mandatory reporting. 6 - Demonstrate midwifery competency based upon the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice and understand the process for Midwifery Practice Review. 7 - Demonstrate understanding of definitions, regulations, requirements and collaborative arrangements for eligible midwife independent practitioners with prescribing rights and scheduled medicines endorsement.

Unit Availability

Year	Semester	Att Mode	Location	Learning Method	Timetable*
2024	Semester 2	Internal	Casuarina Campus	OLR

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