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Courses Handbook 2013

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2013.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

310834 (v.2) Transitional Midwifery Practice 324

Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 50.0
Contact Hours: 24.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 4 x 7 Hours Semester
Clinical Practice: 1 x 350 Hours Semester
Prerequisite(s): 310831 (v.1) Complex Maternal and Neonatal Care 311 or any previous version
Co Requisite(s): 310833 (v.1) Enhancing Midwifery Practice 313 or any previous version
Syllabus: Clinical placement 350 hours. This unit develops the midwifery student as an initial entry professional midwife who is able to engage in reflective practice and preparation for professional audit. This unit develops students’ competence in demonstrating evidence-informed skills for practice and decision-making with women and babies in a range of maternity care settings. The National Competency Standards for the Midwife form the core framework used to demonstrate that the midwifery student is able to practice at the level of a beginning practitioner in midwifery. This unit further emphasises collegiality, collaboration and team work as integral to midwifery practice and philosophies as well as to the development of the student as a practitioner within an interdisciplinary health and community setting.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 060300 Nursing (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2013 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

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