NS5115:03
Midwifery Care in ‘At Risk’ Events
| External | HECS Band 1 |
260 hours of clinical, 80 hours flexible delivery. Semester 2.
Available to Postgraduate Diploma of Midwifery students and midwives enrolled in postgraduate courses of the School of Nursing Sciences.
Staff: Mrs N Harvey.
This subject integrates a number of perspectives from which midwifery practice draws during perinatal challenges for the childbearing family. The modules in this subject are: perinatal challenges related to pregnancy; perinatal challenges related to birth; perinatal challenges related to the puerperium; perinatal challenges related to the neonate and situation-based learning.
Learning Objectives:
- analyse the effects of pre-gestational and pregnancy-induced conditions to predict the likely consequences and/or outcomes of these and implement management according to professional practice;
- foster health promotion through the use of communication and professional skills to facilitate the woman, family and multi-disciplinary team in setting appropriate goals;
- recognise the interdependent role of the midwife by facilitating collaborative resource management;
- examine and develop strategies for working with families from culturally and socially diverse backgrounds when faced with perinatal challenges.
Assessment by examination (50%); assignment (50%).