MDWF12006 - Midwifery Practice 2

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This clinical placement unit is the second of four that provides you with midwifery clinical experience. You will have the opportunity to assess, plan, provide, and evaluate the physiological and psychosocial care of the woman experiencing complex factors. Complexities may arise during the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal period and include the fetus and neonate. You will provide care in collaboration and consultation with the intra and interprofessional team utilising the Australian College of Midwives 'National Midwifery Guidelines for Consultation and Referral'. The clinical practicum component of this unit will require you to complete a minimum of 224 hours in addition to Continuity of Care Experiences (COCE).

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 12
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.25
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Co-requisite:

MDWF12005 Foundations of Midwifery 2


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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2025

Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Mixed Mode

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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

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This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 3.57% response rate.

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.

Source: SUTE
Feedback
I find the amount of work involved in these incredibly time consuming and somewhat irrelevant to my practice. As an experienced RN we reflect daily on our practice as it is, having to write upwards of 70 reflective journals over the course of midwifery, and needing to research some aspect of the encounter with the COCE woman, 70 different topics in midwifery care is far too many. I personally believe it would be more beneficial for my midwifery practice and allow for a deeper understanding of multiple topics if just ONE reflective journal was written per woman after her continuity of care experience was complete. giving an overview of all the appointments, her labour and birth and her PN period, and then reflecting on the entire process of her care, would be more beneficial.
Recommendation
Assessment 1: Reflective Portfolio Continuity of Care models of care and woman centred care are essential components of midwifery but may be new concepts to Bachelor of Midwifery (postgraduate) students. They are asked to provide a reflective discussion of their learning development and personal and professional trajectory of their 10 Continuity of Care Experiences needed to meet Ahpra requirements for registration. Students are asked to recruit 3 Continuity of Care Experiences and complete 3 in term 2 comprising of approximately 17-20 portfolio entries of 400 words each. There is an awareness that developing their reflective portfolio can be time consuming and as such it is weighted at 60% of the total assessment marks. Students are provided with instructions on potential topics relevant to their Continuity of Care women and an exemplar of portfolio entries. This assessment and workload will be further reviewed by the midwifery team. Students will be made aware of the weighting and further strategies to support the assessment submitted in week 12 of the term. These include students deepening their knowledge and analysis of one topic rather than choosing different topics for each entry and writing up journal entries after each clinical experience rather than at the end of term.
Action Taken
Students have been informed about the weighting during residential school, sessions and lectures. Additional strategies to support them include providing resources to help manage their workload, including a list of potential topics for discussion in the Continuity of Care Experiences. Students have also received guidance on managing concise entries to align with the specified word limits, as some students were writing lengthy descriptions, increasing the time required for each entry.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
As external/online students it can be somewhat difficult to organise the assessment due to different work, clinical practice, and home schedules. A group poster and groups based on clinical placement location rather than randomly may work better.
Recommendation
Students are provided with the topics and group allocation for the poster and presentation as soon as Moodle access is available at the start of term. This is to enable them time to meet and develop their assessment within their group of 3 or 4 students. In term 1, they are allocated to a group with their peers at the same clinical placement unit where possible. In term 2, they are allocated to work with a variety of students to share practices across clinical placement units. They are asked to develop their assessment through email and Zoom/Teams meetings. Future group allocation will partner students from nearby clinical placement units to ensure student-focused assessments.
Action Taken
Students have been assigned to groups based on nearby clinical placement units to ensure assessments are student-focused.
Source: Feedback in student emails and recognition of errors in assessment submissions in SONIA
Feedback
Students commented that they were confused as to the documents to upload in the Record of Hours assessment document submitted at the end of term
Recommendation
Wording within the Record of Hours online assessment documentation has been amended to ensure clarity and accuracy.
Action Taken
The wording in the Record of Hours online assessment documentation has been revised, and no additional student feedback has been reported.
Source: Discussions with students as clinical site visits and via email.
Feedback
Student feedback was that the Continuity of Care (CoCE) reflective portfolio assessment was too repetitive with 4 antenatal entries, 1 for birth and a minimum of 2 for postnatal care for each of the ten CoCE experiences they were undertaking. They stated the number of topics to write about was overwhelming.
Recommendation
The structure of the assessment is to be reviewed by the midwifery team to take into account student feedback on the repetitive nature of the entries in the Continuity of Care reflective portfolio assessment. This will take into consideration the learning outcomes for the unit and assessment.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Email communication with students whose reflective portfolios did not meet the unit requirements.
Feedback
Students were unaware that it was a unit requirement to complete 3 x Continuity of Care Experiences, recruit a further 3 and submit their reflective portfolio for these experiences by the end of term 2.
Recommendation
This information was shared with students during the term 2 residential school and on the Moodle page for Midwifery Practice 2. It will be reviewed to ensure clarity and accessibility for all students. Assessment requirements will be provided in multiple formats, including during clinical site visits, to ensure students are fully aware of the unit expectations.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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