Unit MIDGD6207 - Midwifery Partnerships with First Nations Families

Unit description

This unit explores the safe and effective provision of health care in partnership with women and families identifying as Australian First Nations Peoples. The central focus is an exploration of the experience of motherhood, family development, and perinatal health of First Nations Peoples. Building a depth of understanding of the historical and contemporary influences on the social determinants of health including cultural and political factors and their impact on shaping Australian First Nations diverse communities will also be examined. This unit is underpinned by a strengths-based, family centred approach, as a fundamental principle of care. Students will apply principles of culturally safe practice of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People, based on a foundation of respect for diversity and difference, addressing individual needs of the family. This Capstone unit includes a clinical placement component that provides opportunities to apply theoretical knowledge in contemporary midwifery practice environments.

Unit content

This unit focuses on midwifery partnerships with First Nations families and includes:  <ul> <li>Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' history, culture and identity. </li> <li>Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health in Australia</li> <li>First Nations public health strategies - closing the gap in maternal and infant health</li> <li>Cultural practices for women and infants' health</li> <li>Birthing on country </li> <li>Cultural safety in midwifery care and the Australian health system</li> <li>Working in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, families and communities, including Culturally appropriate research methods e.g. yarning</li> <li>Challenges, facilitators and opportunities in Australian and Global First Nation's sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and adolescent health care (SRMNAH) </li> </ul> The following documents have substantially informed the syllabus/content of this unit: CATSINaM Nursing and Midwifery Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework (2017); CATSINaM Cultural Safety Standards for Midwifery 2019, ANMAC Midwife Accreditation Standards (2021); NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice (2018); NMBA Code of Conduct for Midwives (2018); Code of Ethics for Midwives (2014); NMBA Decision-making framework for nursing and midwifery (2020); NMBA Decision-making framework summary - midwifery (2020); National Digital Health Strategy (2021); National Safety and Quality Health Services Standards (2019) and Federation University Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan (2019).

Institute / school:

Institute of Health and Wellbeing

Discipline:

Midwifery

Study level:

Postgraduate - Coursework

Credit points:

EFTSL:

0.125

Field of education:

Offering:

Grade scheme:

Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)

Placement component:

Yes

Placement hours:

160

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3		<p>Midwifery practice portfolio </p><ol><li>Completion of 160 midwifery practice hours.</li><li>All remaining Clinical Assessment Tools (MCAT) are completed at ‘proficient’ level.</li><li>Summative AMSAT clinical report completed: Satisfactory / Pass performance.</li><li>Summative Midwife Standards Assessment completed - 'proficient' overall grade. </li><li>Completion of all minimum clinical experience requirements </li><li>Completion of all Continuity of Care Experiences (CoCE) including student reflection</li></ol>
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FedTASK

Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FedTASKs (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key, transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and co-operative learning opportunities.

FedTASK	Description of FedTASK outcome
	Students will demonstrate high-level skills to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups Students will be required to display (in person and/or online) high-level skills in-person and/or online in: Effective verbal and non-verbal communication via a range of synchronous and asynchronous methods Active listening for meaning and influencing High-level empathy for others Negotiating and demonstrating extended conflict resolution skills Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams
	Students will demonstrate the ability to apply leadership skills and behaviours Students will be required to display skills in: Creating, contributing to, and enabling collegial environments Showing self-awareness and the ability to self-reflect for personal growth Inspiring and enabling others Making informed and evidence-based decisions through consultation with others Displaying initiative and ability to solve problems
	Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complex and ambiguous environments, using their imagination to create new ideas Students will be required to display skills in: Reflecting critically on complex problems Synthesising, evaluating ideas, concepts and information Proposing alternative perspectives to refine ideas Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts through deep inquiry Proposing creative solutions in problem solving
	Students will demonstrate the ability to work proficiently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks Students will be required to display high-level skills in: Finding, accessing, collating, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and appropriately and securely sharing complex digital information at a high-level Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media Using digital tools appropriately to conduct research Contributing proficiently to digital teams and working groups Participating in and utilising digital learning opportunities
	Students will demonstrate the ability to think ethically and sustainably. Students will be required to display skills in: The responsible conduct of research Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in multiple global economic environmental and societal contexts Demonstrating commitment to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen Generating research solutions which are sustainable,ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable Extending lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others Demonstrate extended actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life

Institute / school:

Institute of Health and Wellbeing

Discipline:

Midwifery

Study level:

Postgraduate - Coursework

Credit points:

EFTSL:

0.125

Field of education:

Offering:

Grade scheme:

Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)

Placement component:

Yes

Placement hours:

160

Fee information:

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