NS2003 - Promoting Healthy Labour, Birth and the Post-natal Period

Credit points:	03
Year:	2016
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	College of Healthcare Sciences

This subject continues to address the normal physiological processes associated with pregnancy but with a specific focus on labour and birth. The underpinning philosophy of woman-centred, value based care remains foundational to the subject. Content is provided in a manner which includes the social and cultural aspects of pregnancy and birth for Australian women and, in particular, women located in rural and regional areas. Students are provided with opportunities for decision-making and information-sharing, essential to the midwifery care of healthy women and newborns. The subject provides opportunity for students to rehearse practical skills within a safe simulation setting fostering a level of skill acquisition which students will then apply to a variety of clinical environments. Students will acquire the knowledge and begin to develop skills needed to support women during labour and birth and to initiate and establish breastfeeding. In this subject students are required to recruit another six (6) women willing to participate in the 'Continuity of Care' experience.

Learning Outcomes

• summarize and apply knowledge of the anatomy, physiology and the psychosocial adaptations of reproduction as it relates to: the four stages of labour, birth and the first six weeks after birth to midwifery care of the healthy woman and baby;
• explain and apply knowledge of neonatal adaption to the extra uterine environment;
• apply the WHOs Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and the Seven Point Plan for Supporting Breastfeeding in the Community;
• provide, under supervision, midwifery care to women during labour, birth and the postnatal period consistent with the philosophy, ethics and NMBA (2006) national competency standards for the midwife;
• establish therapeutic relationships with women within a culturally safe framework;
• apply strategies to promote normal labour, birth and the postnatal period;
• reflect on the impact of the current practice of relocating women away from rural and remote communities to birth;
• using Page's five steps, identify what is important to the woman including an understanding of informed choice and respect for the woman's decisions;
• recruit and complete the Continuity of Care experience for three (3) women by the end of the second year;
• use reflection and self-awareness when caring for the birthing woman and her family in practice.

Prerequisites:	NS1003 AND NS1004 AND NS1222 AND BM1022
Corequisites:	NS2022 AND PP2131 AND NS2015

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2016
Coordinator:	Mrs Tamlyn Brice
Lecturers:	Ms Karyn Bentley, Mrs Tamlyn Brice.
Contact hours:	20 hours lectures 20 hours tutorials 30 hours practicals 80 hours professional experience
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); objective structured clinical examination (osce) (20%); assignments (30%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Clinical placement 80hours NGP/NGF. Recruit six (6) Continuity of Care. Examinations may be scheduled outside regular university examination period - refer to Clinical Ladder.

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.