This unit introduces the registered nurse to midwifery practice skills that are woman-centred and promote safe, physiological pregnancy, labour, birth, first hours parenting and initiating breastfeeding. Students will learn and practise fundamental midwifery skills that are underpinned by midwifery philosophy. Major themes explored in this unit encompass; antenatal booking and subsequent visits, labour and birth, neonatal assessment, early postnatal care, midwifery documentation as well as physiological adaptations affecting 'normal' values for clinical assessment. To meet accreditation requirements students must demonstrate the capacity to establish, build and maintain continuity of midwifery care in their Continuity of Midwifery Care experiences (CoMCE). Students will also attend 40 hours of simulation block. Please refer to the Faculty of Health website for further details on simulation blocks and other important information.
PRESCRIBED TEXTS - MIDWIFERY PREPARATION FOR PRACTICE
PRESCRIBED TEXTS - SKILLS FOR MIDWIFERY PRACTICE AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND 2ND EDITION
