HNM704 - Clinical Challenges in Maternity Care

Unit details

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Year:2020 unit information
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
At the completion of this Unit, successful students can:

Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes

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
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management

ULO3 Manage and evaluate woman-centred care with at risk health factors in reference to evidence-based practice.

GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO6: Self-management

ULO4 Negotiate, establish, maintain and conclude a professional relationship while experiencing Continuity of Care with individual childbearing women.

GLO7: Teamwork
GLO8: Global citizenship

Assessment

Trimester 2:
Assessment description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1: Assignment 1,500 words 40%
  • Week 7
Assessment 2: Examination 2 hours, 2000 words 50%
  • Examination period
Assessment 3: Clinical reflection Equivalent to 500 words 10%
  • Week 9
Assessment 4: Clinical assessment 120 hours Pass/fail
  • Examination period

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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