HPRO7407 – Midwifery Practice: Core Practice
Module code
HPRO7407
Module title
Midwifery Practice: Core Practice
Prescription
The aim of this course is for aakonga to consolidate knowledge, skills and attitudes for whaanau-centred midwifery care, in a secondary and/or tertiary care setting.
Programmes
- TP5225
NZQA Level
Level 7
NZQA Credits
15
Delivery method
- Web-Enhanced
Learning hours
- Total learning hours
- 150
Resources required
- Learning Outcomes
- LO1: Work collaboratively within the Midwifery Scope of Practice.
LO2: Critically evaluate the midwifery care and management of conditions where women/pregnant people require secondary/tertiary level of care.
LO3: Achieve the Midwifery Council Competencies, in a secondary and/or tertiary care setting. - Content
- - Development and consolidation of knowledge, skills, and professional behaviour appropriate to secondary/tertiary care within the Midwifery Scope of Practice
- The role of the core midwife
- Organisational processes within secondary and tertiary care
- The role of the core midwife
- Midwifery response to emergencies in pregnancy, labour, birth, and the postnatal period
- Identification of pathophysiology and differential diagnosis
- MERAS
- Midwifery leadership/management/delegation in a core facility
- Barriers to whaanau-centred care in a secondary/tertiary setting
- Midwifery Council Competencies for Entry to the Register of Midwives
- Work within the Midwifery Scope of Practice in a secondary and/or tertiary care setting - 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.
- Learning and Teaching Resource
- All required and recommended resources are advised to aakonga via course outlines.
