HNM709 - Partnerships in Midwifery 1: Pregnancy Care

Unit details

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Year:2022 unit information
Important Update:

Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates.

Last updated: 4 March 2022

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Cloud online with campus requirements for simulation activities.

Pre-clinical intensive study program

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Anna O'Connell
Cohort rule:This unit is only available to students enrolled in H676
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

HNM710, HNM711

Typical study commitment:

Students will spend on average 150 hours over the trimester undertaking synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning activities for this unit.

Scheduled learning activities - cloud:

Cloud: 20 hours of seminar activities throughout the trimester
64 hour midwifery practice experience (MPE)

In-person attendance requirements:

1 hour of simulation over the trimester (on campus)
Pre-clinical intensive study program

Note:

Department of Health – Safety Screening Requirements - Police Record Check, Working With Children Check and Immunisation Status

In accordance with the Department of Health policy, all students are required to undertake a Police Record Check prior to clinical placements in each calendar year of their course.

In accordance with the Worker Screening Act 2020, all students are required to undertake a Working with Children Check at the commencement of their course. Students who fail to obtain a Police Record Check and a Working with Children Check prior to the commencement of clinical placement will not be able to undertake clinical placement and this will impede progress in the course.

Students are required to declare their immunisation status to satisfy the requirements of health organisations where they will be undertaking their clinical learning experience. A health organisation may refuse to accept a student for placement if the student’s immunisation status is not satisfactory to the health organisation.

Content

Aligned with quality and safety principles, opportunities are provided for students to explore and develop essential midwifery knowledge and skills necessary for the provision of woman-centred care.

Students will develop beginning clinical decision-making skills necessary for the provision of woman-centred, quality, and safe pregnancy care. Essential concepts for midwifery practice such as communication, professional, legal, and ethical standards, physiological changes during pregnancy, and health promotion will be addressed in this unit.

During midwifery practice experiences (MPE) students will have the opportunity to further develop specific mindsets and apply relevant knowledge and skills learnt in this unit.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1 Analyse the professional, legal and ethical dimensions of midwifery practice.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO2

Explain the anatomy and physiology of pregnancy.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2:Communication

ULO3

Apply a woman-centred, culturally safe and evidence-based approach to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of pregnancy care.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO4

Perform psychomotor skills and self-management skills to provide safe and quality midwifery care.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management

ULO5 Engage in professional woman-centred communication to ensure safe and quality care GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO6: Self-management
GLO7: Teamwork
GLO8: Global citizenship

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year.

Assessment

Trimester 1:
Assessment description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1: Case Study 2000 words 35%
  • Information not available yet
Assessment 2: Clinical Skills TBC 5%
(Pass/Fail)
  • Information not available yet
Assessment 3: Examination  2 hours 50%
  • Examination period
Assessment 4: Midwifery Practice Experience (MPE) 64 hours 10%
(Pass/Fail)
  • Information not available yet

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 Skills - Pass/Fail
  • Midwifery Practice Experience (MPE) - Pass/Fail

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HNM709. 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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