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Unit description
Develops students' knowledge and skills to provide collaborative care for women who require complex assessments and/or interventions during childbearing. Students also learn to care for women and/or babies who have relatively common disorders during the childbearing period. This unit is taught concurrently with MWF20004 - Midwifery Practice in Complex Childbearing which is where the related clinical skills and professional experiences will occur.
Unit content
- Collaborative assessments and interventions
- Introduction to complex disorders in childbearing
- Challenges that impact the maternal infant dyad
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | apply theoretical and evidence-based knowledge to midwifery care for women who require complex assessments and/or medical interventions during childbearing |
| 2 | identify and summarise the theoretical and evidence-based knowledge needed to be able to provide midwifery care to women and/or babies who have common challenges or disorders during childbearing |
| 3 | explain and analyse the theoretical and evidence-based knowledge needed to be able to provide midwifery care to women and/or babies who have common challenges or disorders during childbearing |
| 4 | apply clinical decision-making when caring for women and babies if complexities exist and/or arise. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- apply theoretical and evidence-based knowledge to midwifery care for women who require complex assessments and/or medical interventions during childbearing
- identify and summarise the theoretical and evidence-based knowledge needed to be able to provide midwifery care to women and/or babies who have common challenges or disorders during childbearing
- explain and analyse the theoretical and evidence-based knowledge needed to be able to provide midwifery care to women and/or babies who have common challenges or disorders during childbearing
- apply clinical decision-making when caring for women and babies if complexities exist and/or arise.
Teaching and assessment
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