NS5115 - Midwifery Care in 'At Risk' Events

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	National Priority Band
Administered by:	Discipline of Nursing, Midwifery & Nutrition

Available to Postgraduate Diploma of Midwifery students and midwives enrolled in postgraduate courses of the School of Nursing Sciences.

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 Outcomes

• 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;
• examine and develop strategies for working with families from culturally and socially diverse backgrounds when faced with perinatal challenges;
• 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.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Availabilities
External, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Marie McAuliffe
Lecturer:	jc159085.
Contact hours:	80 hours 260 hours clinical placement
Method of Delivery:	Printed materials
Assessment:	assignments.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.