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Unit Synopsis
This unit is the sixth and final Professional Midwifery Practice unit in the Bachelor of Midwifery program. It builds on the knowledge and experience gained in Professional Midwifery Practice 1–5 and is designed to consolidate your clinical skills and support your transition to practice as a competent beginning midwife. The unit supports the integration and application of your midwifery knowledge across the childbearing continuum, with a focus on providing ethical, safe, and woman-centred care in diverse and complex clinical contexts. You will engage in reflective practice and demonstrate increasing autonomy and accountability in preparation for professional midwifery practice. This unit includes a compulsory five-day residential school, comprising two days of online learning and three days of face-to-face clinical skills development. Successful completion of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), held during the residential school, is required to progress to the Midwifery Professional Experience (MPE) placement. To meet clinical requirements, you must complete a minimum of 240 hours of supervised practicum and maintain documentation of your Continuity of Care Experiences (COCE), demonstrating your developing competence and reflective learning across the childbearing continuum.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 12 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 1 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisites: Professional Midwifery Practice 5 Co-requisite: Pharmacology Across the Childbearing Continuum 2 Transition to 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School |
Compulsory Residential School View Unit Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 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).
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
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 50% |
| 2. Reflective Practice Assignment | 50% |
| 3. Portfolio | 0% |
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%).
Past Exams
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No previous feedback available
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.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Appraise and implement safe, evidence-informed midwifery care, incorporating digital health and emerging technologies, in collaboration with women and multidisciplinary teams, to demonstrate readiness for professional practice as a beginning registered midwife
- Critically reflect on clinical learning related to midwifery professional experience and Continuity of Care Experiences to enhance midwifery practice
- Integrate midwifery knowledge to provide culturally safe, inclusive, and responsive care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their families, grounded in an understanding of historical, social, and cultural determinants of health
- Demonstrate professional midwifery competence at the level of a graduate midwife based upon the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Midwife Standards for Practice (2018).
The unit content and learning outcomes will meet the following:
The ANMAC Midwifery Education Standards (2021)
Standard 1: Safety of the public
Standard 3: Program of study
The NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice (2018)
Standard 1: Promotes evidence-based maternal health and wellbeing
Standard 2: Engages in respectful partnerships and professional relationships
Standard 3: Demonstrates the capability and accountability for midwifery practice
Standard 4: Undertakes comprehensive assessments
Standard 5: Develops plans for midwifery practice
Standard 6: Provides safe and quality midwifery practice
Standard 7: Evaluates outcomes to improve midwifery practice
The NMBA Code of Conduct for Midwives (2018)
Principle 1: Legal compliance.
Principle 2: Woman-centred practice
Principle 3: Cultural practice and respectful relationships
Principle 4: Professional behaviour
Principle 7: Health and wellbeing.
The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) International Code of Ethics for Midwives (2014)
1. Midwifery relationships
2. Practice of midwifery
3. The professional responsibilities of midwives
4. Advancement of midwifery knowledge and practice
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (2021)
Clinical governance
Partnering with consumers
Preventing and controlling infections
Medication safety
Comprehensive care
Communicating for safety
Blood management
Recognising and responding to acute deterioration
The Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Framework (2020)
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | |||
| 3 - Portfolio | • | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Team Work | • | • | • | |
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | • |
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | • |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • |
| 9 - Social Innovation | • | • | ||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | • | • | • | |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |