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This course will enable students to extend foundational knowledge and increase their awareness of the challenges women can experience during the childbearing continuum. The course will enable students to understand complications associated with pregnancy and birth and will enhance and extend students scope of practice in midwifery.

This course aims to provide the student with an understanding of the challenges associated with childbearing such as infertility, chronic illness, substance abuse, obesity, trauma and hypertension in pregnancy. Content also addresses complications related to birth such as breech, shoulder dystocia, maternal collapse, haemorrhage and malpresentation. Cultural aspects that can have an impact of childbearing, birth and the postnatal period are also addressed.

This course contains a mandatory residential school.

On completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the challenges women can experience during pregnancy, labour, birth and in the puerperium
2. Explore and examine the evidence to support midwifery care when women are confronted with challenges during the child bearing continuum to inform evidence-based care
3. Use evidence based midwifery practice to critically assess the woman鈥檚 condition, and to plan and provide care in collaboration with other health professionals
4. Provide evidence based midwifery care to women experiencing midwifery challenges across the childbearing continuum and evaluate complex midwifery care
5. Demonstrate effective communication skills (oral and written) when caring for a woman and her family experiencing midwifery challenges during pregnancy, birth or postnatal period