MID3222 · Safety in midwifery and nursing contexts

Overview

This clinical unit focuses on the essential requirements of the registered nurse or registered midwife to demonstrate an understanding of safety in health care contexts. Acknowledging that healthcare can cause harm, this unit introduces the complexity of contemporary healthcare for practitioners with dual nursing and midwifery registration. Building upon foundational knowledge regarding scope of practice, this unit aims to prepare you to practice safely. You will also examine the particular needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as they are amongst the most at risk populations in the Australian healthcare system. This unit is divided into three modules focusing on concepts of safety and clinical risk, quality improvement and professional standards in nursing and midwifery practice. The ongoing use of the clinical reasoning cycle will build the students' critical thinking, demonstrating understanding of what it is to think like a nurse or midwife and develop skills in healthcare safety.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment task/s. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Describe the complexities of healthcare safety and evaluate the principles of clinical risk and governance;
2. Explain the contribution of 'human factors' to the provision of healthcare and the importance of inter-professional collaboration to minimise risk in the provision of healthcare;
3. Apply the principles of quality improvement including the methods and tools used to measure patient/woman safety in varying clinical contexts;
4. Evaluate the scope of practice of a nurse and midwife in relation to the Nursing Practice and Midwifery Practice decision making frameworks;
5. Critically analyse the complexity of the healthcare and safety risks of maternal health for women in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people;;
6. Demonstrate developing midwifery competence based upon the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) Midwife standards for practice and Code of conduct for midwives, and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Code of ethics for midwives.

Workload

6 hours per week of teacher facilitated and self-directed learning including tutorials, interprofessional learning and online activities. Please refer to Moodle for tutorial types and requirements.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.