MID4110 Professional midwifery practice

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Reflect critically upon the role that midwifery led models of care play in the Australian maternity context;

    

    

2. 2

   Discuss the challenges of autonomous practice and midwife leadership and demonstrate proficiency in the implementation of planned midwifery care;

3. 3

   Apply knowledge of the Australian Safety and Quality Framework for Healthcare improvement framework, as applied to midwifery practice;

4. 4

   Design a quality improvement project relevant to an area of midwifery practice (mental health, primary healthcare, vulnerable populations or hospital based midwifery);

5. 5

   With the use of clinical reasoning appraise evidence to demonstrate research literacy skills when searching for evidence relevant to midwifery;

6. 6

   Review the key priority areas for research and policy relevant to current midwifery practice;

7. 7

   Translate midwifery knowledge in preparation for leadership in practice;

8. 8

   Introduce the models of midwife leadership and discuss their impact of in the advancement of the profession

9. 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.