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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 UniSQ accreditation agreement with the accrediting organisation/s (where relevant).

This course enables students to provide midwifery care as a primary carer to strengthen midwifery skills when supporting women and their families during labour and birth. In this course students will demonstrate assessment skills, critical thinking, reflection and the ability to prioritise labour and birth care within a woman-centred partnership model of care. Students will further develop clinical skills in providing non-pharmaceutical, physiological and psychological labour support. Students will also employ a holistic approach to assessment and management of women in relation to induction of labour and of epidural analgesia. Students will demonstrate ability to perform and interpret the use of cardiotocograph during labour, midwifery labour assessments skills and care of a women as she progresses through labour. This course will also enable the student to develop skills to care for the infant at birth and assess maternal and infant wellbeing following birth. The student will apply knowledge and critical thinking to assist in initiating breastfeeding, sampling of blood from the infant and administration of an injection to the infant.