MID4110 Professional midwifery practice
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
MID4110 Professional midwifery practice is a level 3, 12-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, offered in 2020 in Semester 2 at Peninsula. It needs MID4000 and NUR4111.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2020
- Semester 2
- Peninsula
- Assessment
- No exam
- 5 tasks
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2025 entry.
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Requisites
Before MID4110
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After MID4110
No unit lists MID4110 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Corequisite: must be enrolled in course code M3007 or 4514
Overview
This unit provides students with a comprehensive and clinically meaningful final preparation for transition to practice as a competent beginning level midwife. The unit builds on the content covered in, MID2000, MID2010, MID3222, MID3202, MID4000, and NUR4111 related to identification of areas of midwifery practice requiring quality improvement in order to achieve safe outcomes for mothers and babies. This unit is designed to challenge the final year student and consolidate their midwifery knowledge and leadership skills by identifying an educational or practice issue of concern. Students have the opportunity to write a proposal for a quality improvement project designed to address an issue of concern in the clinical area. Students will have the opportunity to explore in detail a range of midwifery and medically led models of care and the midwifery leadership necessary to promote the profession, providing childbearing women with choice in the care they receive. Students are provided with the opportunity to explore contemporary midwifery practice, regulatory and professional issues and identify evidence informed midwifery practices.
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Peninsula | On campus |
Assessment
- Essay focused on a midwifery practice issue (Individual) (3,000 words) (35%)Essay35%
- Group development and written report of healthcare innovation program (2,000 words) (20%)Report20%
- Group poster presentation incl. group poster (1,000 words x 10%) & peer evaluation (5%) (total 15%)Presentation15%
- Clinical placement (200 hours) (30%) (Hurdle)Competency hurdle30%
- Clinical portfolio for the course Pass/Fail (Hurdle)OtherCompetency hurdle-
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Reflect critically upon the role that midwifery led models of care play in the Australian maternity context;
- 2
Discuss the challenges of autonomous practice and midwife leadership and demonstrate proficiency in the implementation of planned midwifery care;
- 3
Apply knowledge of the Australian Safety and Quality Framework for Healthcare improvement framework, as applied to midwifery practice;
- 4
Design a quality improvement project relevant to an area of midwifery practice (mental health, primary healthcare, vulnerable populations or hospital based midwifery);
- 5
With the use of clinical reasoning appraise evidence to demonstrate research literacy skills when searching for evidence relevant to midwifery;
- 6
Review the key priority areas for research and policy relevant to current midwifery practice;
- 7
Translate midwifery knowledge in preparation for leadership in practice;
- 8
Introduce the models of midwife leadership and discuss their impact of in the advancement of the profession
- 9
Demonstrate midwifery competency based upon the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Midwife standards for practice and Code of conduct for midwives, and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Code of ethics for midwives.
Workload and teaching
Four x four hour compulsory on-campus workshops: 16 hours
Six hours for group presentation
Guided Self-directed learning on moodle 50 hours
Clinical placement: 200 hours
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Sue Willey
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Sue Willey