Overview
This clinical placement unit is the final of four that provides you with midwifery clinical experience. In this capstone unit, you will be required to integrate and apply knowledge, concepts and skills learned throughout the course. The learning experiences will provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to practice at the level of a competent beginning midwife. 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
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Co-requisite: MDWF13009 Foundations of Midwifery 4
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 1 - 2027
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
- Academic Progression Policy and Procedure
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- 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 from students and industry partner
Students provided feedback indicating a preference to complete their required clinical placement hours earlier than the current timeframe. This adjustment would allow them to return to their paid nursing positions sooner and help reduce the overall burden of clinical placement.
Students are required to attend placement between the formative and summative AMSAT assessments within Term 1 to enable their progress and learning development to be assessed. This schedule ensures alignment with Midwife Accreditation Standard 3.11, which requires end of program placements to demonstrate achievement of the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice, and supports Standard 5.3 by clearly linking formative and summative assessments to competence and student progression. It also enables students to continue with the unit in conjunction with their theoretical learning and the corequisite unit, Foundations of Midwifery 4.
Feedback from Verbal feedback from students at Midwifery Practice 4 residential school.
Students indicated that the Academic Learning Session on the use of Generative AI, delivered during the Midwifery Practice 4 residential school, was not provided at an optimal time, and they would have preferred to receive this guidance earlier in the program.
The rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI meant that providing this guidance in previous residential schools earlier in the program was challenging. However, the value of this instruction is recognised, and future iterations of the unit will explore opportunities to integrate generative AI guidance more effectively to better support student learning.