Unit Outlines

Year 1: Semester One

NUR1301 Science in Nursing 1: This unit aims to introduce students to the basic concepts of physics, chemistry and biology that underlie the scientific aspects of nursing practice.

NUR1401 Health and Human Behaviour: This unit will provide an opportunity for students to develop knowledge and skills relevant to understanding how and why human beings behave the way they do during times of health and illness.

MID1001 With Childbearing Woman: This unit introduces students to the role of the midwife in contemporary midwifery practice.

MID1101 Beginning the Journey: This practice unit introduces students to the fundamentals of midwifery care within the family/community where childbearing women live and work.

Year 1: Semester Two

MID1002 Making Practice Connections: Students will be introduced to the practice of midwifery by making connections with pregnant women in the community to gain an anthropological view of ‘being with woman'.

MID1003 The Childbearing Journey: This unit will provide the foundation knowledge required by midwifery students to effectively care for women during preconception through to early parenting.

MID1004 Politics of Maternity Services: This unit will examine a broad range of contemporary issues and trends that impact on women within the context of childbearing and midwifery practice.

NUR2304 Science in Nursing 4: The unit aims to continue the study of anatomy and physiology by examining nutrition and metabolism, the reproductive system, embryonic and foetal development and human genetics.

Year 2: Semester One

MID2005 With Woman: Rethinking Pain: The focus of this unit is the concept of pain and the role of the midwife in assisting women experiencing pain. Pain will be explored from the philosophical, physiological, spiritual and psychosocial perspective.

MID2006 Practice Allegiances: This unit provides the opportunity for students to immerse themselves in midwifery practice in relation to women and their experiences of pain in all its various expressions, including grief and loss.

NUR2201 Pharmacology and Therapeutics: There is an abundance of medicinal and therapeutic agents used as part of contemporary health care. The aim of this unit is to develop in students an understanding of the basic principles of pharmacology as they relate to nursing.

Science in Nursing 3: The unit aims to continue the study of anatomy and physiology undertaken in first year by examining the urinary system, fluids and electrolytes, the digestive system, and the involvement of nerves and hormones in each.

Year 2 Semester Two

MID2007 Unpacking Midwifery Knowledge: This unit introduces students to the historical development of midwifery knowledge and the influence of different philosophies in shaping contemporary midwifery knowledge.

MID2007 Midwives working with Diversity: This unit will help students acquire an understanding of how social and cultural contexts affect women's experience of childbearing.

MID2102 Towards a Midwife Self: This practice unit will assist students to build on skills obtained in previous semesters in working with a variety of women experiencing childbearing, in a variety of settings.

NUR1302 Science in Nursing 2: The unit aims to continue the study of anatomy and physiology by examining the respiratory system, the musculoskeletal system and sensory perception.

Year 3 Semester One

MID3103 Childbearing Obstacles: This unit introduces students to the obstacles that women may experience during childbearing.

MID3104 Navigating Childbearing Obstacles: This practice unit will focus on students developing their knowledge and skills relating to the obstacles women may experience during pregnancy, labour and birth, and the first weeks after birth.

MID3105 Women's Health Women's Business: This unit will build on the women's health assessment and health promotion skills previously developed within the role of the midwife working with childbearing woman through the introduction of the broader women's health context.

MID3106 Women's Health Practice: This practice unit will focus on student's developing their knowledge and skills relating to midwives working in partnership with women experiencing breast and other women's reproductive health concerns.

Year 3 Semester Two

MID3107 Babies Needing Extra Care: This unit will assist students, within the context of the family to acquire foundational knowledge of the care of babies with special needs.

MID3108 Working With Babies: This unit will assist students, within the context of the family to apply in the nursery foundational knowledge of the care of babies with special needs.

MID3201 Midwifery Practice Elective: This practice unit provides students with a comprehensive and clinically meaningful final preparation for transition to practice as a competent first level registered midwife, in an area of their choosing.

ELECTIVE choice of one of the following:

MID3109 Hanging Up a Shingle: This unit will enable students to explore the choice of being self-employed, as well as the choice that a woman makes in engaging a midwife privately.

MID2009 Women's Health: Sociopolitical Context: This unit will provide students with an opportunity to debate sociopolitical aspects of women's health through the lifespan, in the context of the Australian health care system.

NUR3203 Gender and Family Health: This unit will introduce feminist and other theories of gender in order for students to develop an analytical capability in consideration of the different experiences of men and women in relation to health and illness.