HNM704 - Clinical Challenges in Maternity Care
Unit details
Year: | 2020 unit information |
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Important Update: | Classes and seminars in Trimester 2/Semester 2, 2020 will be online. Physical distancing for coronavirus (COVID-19) will affect delivery of other learning experiences in this unit. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates one week prior to the start of your trimester or semester. Last updated: 2 June 2020 |
Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne) |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Monique Vermeulen |
Cohort rule: | Only available to students enrolled in H676 Graduate Diploma of Midwifery |
Prerequisite: | HNM701 and HNM702 |
Corequisite: | HNM703 |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
Scheduled learning activities - campus: | Theoretical component 50 hours; clinical practicum 120 hours. Nominated ‘study days’ are conducted throughout each of the trimesters over the 18 months of the course. |
Note:Classes are conducted at Burwood (Melbourne) and videoconferenced live to other venues. Cloud (online) teaching methods and independent learning activities require internet access. |
Content
This unit reviews the pathophysiology related to complex health issues of the woman and her foetus during pregnancy, or following birth; the midwife's referral role to other health professionals. It also encompasses ethical, legal issues, loss and grief and community resources.
These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this Unit | ||
ULO1 | Explain aberrations from normal physiological processes of pregnancy, birth and the time after birth and their impact on the woman and her family. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Identify from health assessments clinical deterioration of the woman and /or foetus and/or complex health issues including the midwife's response to these challenges also encompassing referral and collaborative care with other health professionals. | GLO2: Communication |
ULO3 | Manage and evaluate woman-centred care with at risk health factors in reference to evidence-based practice. | GLO4: Critical thinking |
ULO4 | Negotiate, establish, maintain and conclude a professional relationship while experiencing Continuity of Care with individual childbearing women. | GLO7: Teamwork |
Assessment
Trimester 2:Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1: Assignment | 1,500 words | 40% |
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Assessment 2: Examination | 2 hours, 2000 words | 50% |
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Assessment 3: Clinical reflection | Equivalent to 500 words | 10% |
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Assessment 4: Clinical assessment | 120 hours | Pass/fail |
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Students are required to successfully complete practice requirements to support their application to AHPRA for registration as a ‘midwife’, NMBA.
Satisfactory completion of the Victorian Standardised Clinical Assessment Tools for Midwifery Students (competency based learning), incorporating the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (2006) National Competency Standards for the Midwife. They include: Care of the Mother and Baby with Increased Needs in Labour, Care of the Woman on Admission to Birth Environment, Management of Pain Relief in Labour, Management of an Induction of Labour, Performing and Interpreting a Cardiotograph Tracing on a Labouring Woman, Performing a Vaginal Examination and Reception and Care of the Newborn Baby. These are pass/fail assessments. Students are required to maintain a Midwifery Portfolio including reflective practice entries and records of learning opportunities. Commencement and continuation of Continuity of Care experiences (minimum of 10 hours each). Students are required to successfully complete practice requirements to support their application to Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (“AHPRA”) for registration as a midwife to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (“NMBA”).
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Hurdle requirement
- Clinical assessment
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HNM704 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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