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Midwifery practice is an ordered sequence of clinical experiences enabling progressive development and application of evidence-based knowledge for the advancement of clinical skills necessary to deliver effective care. Students will be introduced to midwifery practice principles that focus on the health and wellbeing of childbearing women and their babies. Students will have the opportunity to work with a midwife in a midwifery clinical setting, providing care for women throughout pregnancy labour, birth and the dyad in the postnatal setting.

The assessment in this course is competency-based. Students will achieve either a pass or fail for each assessment. Students need to pass all assessment items to successfully complete the course. These competency items form part of the USQ accreditation agreement with the accrediting organisation/s (where relevant).

The student will apply knowledge and critical thinking to assist supporting women and babies during more challenging situations. This course enables students to apply the concepts of holistic and theoretical analysis to provide professional and competent skills to women who have increased needs during labour. Students will employ a holistic approach to assessment and management of women in relation to challenging situations that require intensive midwifery labour surveillance. This course will enable the student to develop skills to care for the woman who has a caesarean section, and assessment and management when examining well babies and babies who are unwell and require oxygen therapy and enteral or tube feeding. This course will also enable the student to develop skills to care for the mother and baby when the baby is receiving phototherapy.

1. Demonstrate professional conduct including using effective communication skills and evidence-based philosophy to maintain safe, collaborative and supportive relationships with women, their families and health professionals, adhering to Midwifery Standards for Practice and National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards;
2. Compare and evaluate the roles and responsibilities of health professions in a typical interdisciplinary health team when there are increased needs of a woman and or fetus/neonate during labour or the postpartum period;
3. Apply and integrate theoretical and professional dimensions of therapeutic and inter-professional communication when caring for a woman who has had a caesarean section;
4. Demonstrate fundamental principles associated with drug therapy protocols;
5. Plan, implement and evaluate holistic, culturally aware practice when managing women from indigenous families and those from diverse cultures;
6. Analyse legal and ethical issues relating to child safety;
7. Integrate and apply knowledge to demonstrate independent and collaborative management practice when examining a newborn baby;
8. Plan, implement, and evaluate midwifery practice, in collaboration with women, their families and the inter-disciplinary health care team when caring for neonates with complex needs (including breastfeeding difficulties, enteral tube feeding and phototherapy).