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MIDW218 Practice Collaboration

10 cp
Prerequisites MIDW115 Practice Connections
Co-requisite MIDW216 Being with Birthing Women
Teaching Organisation 150 hours of focused learning.

This practice unit provides the opportunity for students to immerse themselves in midwifery practice in relation to women and their experiences of labour and birthing. Students will be given the opportunity to apply theoretical concepts, in relation to the birth process, to the practice setting. The focus will be on assisting the midwifery student to develop high level assessment skills to enable them to support women during labour and birth and to assist women in making choices about the most appropriate strategy to employ to work with pain in birthing. Providing midwifery care and support for women using non-pharmacological methods of pain relief and pharmacological approaches will be explored. Students will make contact with six women for the purpose of following through their pregnancy, birth and the early weeks of parenting.

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