MDWF13007 - Midwifery Practice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will examine the elements of cultural capability required to practice culturally safe and inclusive midwifery care. You will have the opportunity to develop an understanding of cultural safety through self-reflexivity for culturally safe midwifery care that is free of racism and bias. You will be introduced to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' history and post-colonial experiences to gain an insight into the implications of this for midwifery care, population health, and health care practice. You will gain an understanding of the importance of equitable partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, health professionals, organisations, and the community to provide respectful midwifery practice that is underpinned by cultural safety. Specifically, you will focus on historical and current issues in relation to 'Women's Business', birthing on country, motherhood, and the models of midwifery care available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisites: MDWF12006 Midwifery Practice 2, MDWF12005 Foundations of Midwifery 2 and 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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2025

Term 3 - 2025 Profile
Online

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 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 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 3 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 66.67% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 22.22% 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 data
Feedback
More compulsory online sessions would be beneficial. I enjoyed the content overall.
Recommendation
The students were strongly encouraged to attend a single, non-assessed, online experiential learning session. The unit coordinator will consider implementing a second session in the next offering.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE data
Feedback
I was disappointed with this subject. The assessments kept asking for the same information.
Recommendation
The unit coordinator will request peer review from all members of the midwifery academic team to ensure that the assessment tasks are not too similar.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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