HPRO6403 – Midwifery Practice: Pregnancy and Birth
Module code
HPRO6403
Module title
Midwifery Practice: Pregnancy and Birth
Prescription
The aim of this course is for aakonga to develop the knowledge, skill and attitudes to provide midwifery care that supports and facilitates the?physiological processes during the childbirth continuum.
Programmes
- TP5225
NZQA Level
Level 6
NZQA Credits
30
Delivery method
- Web-Enhanced
Learning hours
- Total learning hours
- 300
Resources required
- Learning Outcomes
- LO1: Apply professional frameworks within the Midwifery Scope of Practice.
LO2: Apply assessment and practice skills across the childbirth continuum.
LO3: Communicate with women/pregnant people and whaanau to support informed decision making across the childbirth continuum.
LO4: Achieve selected performance criteria for Midwifery Council Competencies to the expected level, to support and facilitate the childbirth continuum. - Content
- - Midwifery Council Competencies for Entry to the Register of Midwives
- Work within the Midwifery Scope of Practice
- Care of the well woman/pregnant person throughout pregnancy, labour and birth and the puerperium, including referral to appropriate services and debriefing
- Introduction of referral guidelines
- Midwifery practices that:
- facilitate normal labour and birth in all settings
- understand the concept/difference between physiological and normal birth
- support women/pregnant people to work with pain
- support the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding
- Contraception choices
- Tuuranga Kaupapa
- Continuity of care
- Practical application of midwifery skills including: physical assessment of the woman/pregnant person, abdominal palpation, vaginal assessment, fetal monitoring (with pinard and doppler), responding to postpartum haemorrhage, urinary catheterisation, cannulation, perineal care, perineal infiltration and repair
- Working with pain in labour in all settings
- Recognition of potential deviation and disruption of normal processes
- Information sharing on relevant midwifery issues to facilitate decision making by the woman/pregnant person, using effective communication
- Evidence-based recommendations for nutrition and activity in pregnancy, labour, and lactation
- Midwifery Council Competencies for Entry to the Register of Midwives
- Work within the Midwifery Scope of Practice
- Midwifery practice that supports and facilitates the physiological processes of the childbirth continuum - Learning and Teaching Resource
- All required and recommended resources are advised to aakonga via course outlines.
- Assessment Criteria
- Assessment in this course supports both achievement and competency-based assessment. Aakonga must achieve all learning outcomes and successfully complete all assessment items to pass this course.
Competency-based assessment completion: Akonga must successfully complete all specified competency-based assessment items. There are no resubmission/resit opportunities for competency assessments.
Achievement-based assessment completion: Akonga must submit all specified achievement-based assessment items and obtain a minimum of 50% in each achievement-based assessment. - Teaching and Learning Strategy
- Learning and teaching activities will employ a range of elements drawn from approved methods. The activities chosen will align with the context of the learning (delivery mode, regional-specific requirements, etc.) and any particular needs of the group of aakonga.
