Overview
This unit will build on your knowledge acquired throughout the course and demonstrate higher-level learning to identify complex factors that may present during the childbearing continuum. This unit will provide the theory to understand the complex factors that may impact on the childbearing continuum and the care required utilising the Australian College of Midwives 'National Midwifery Guidelines for Consultation and Referral'.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Co-requisite: MDWF12004 Critical Inquiry and Midwifery Practice
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Verbal feedback during a clinical site visit.
Emails from teaching staff reminding students about assessments and encouraging engagement with unit resources can sometimes feel overwhelming and discouraging. When you're focused on completing one assessment and another is already approaching, it can add to stress levels.
Staff have been encouraged to monitor student engagement through CQUniversity Success and reach out to students who have not engaged with the unit materials over several weeks. Although friendly and supportive language was used in line with recommendations from CQUniversity staff workshops, future emails will be reviewed to ensure they are not too frequent, the tone remains encouraging and the focus is on offering solutions for students who may be facing challenges.
Feedback from Verbal feedback during a clinical site visit.
It is difficult to know how to use generative AI tools such as Chat GPT in the course and for assessments and whether we are breaching academic integrity by doing this.
Information is available for students on the Moodle site and in the assessment rubrics, aligned with the School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Sciences guidelines. However, due to the rapidly evolving nature of this environment, it is acknowledged that understanding how to use these tools appropriately can be confusing. To address this, students will attend a workshop at residential schools with the Academic Learning Centre staff to provide further guidance on using generative AI tools for assessments and avoiding breaches of academic integrity. This also facilitates equity across the student cohort when utilising gen AI tools.